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# 12 U.S.C. § 216c - Rules and regulations

## Text

The Comptroller may issue rules and regulations necessary or appropriate to carry out this subchapter.

(Pub. L. 96–221, title VII, § 734, as added Pub. L. 97–320, title IV, § 408, Oct. 15, 1982, 96 Stat. 1515.)