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type: "LegalText"
title: "12 U.S.C. § 2256"
description: "Consent to the availability of reports and to examinations"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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title_number: 12
title_name: "BANKS AND BANKING"
chapter_number: "23"
chapter_name: "FARM CREDIT SYSTEM"
section: "2256"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 2256"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 12 U.S.C. § 2256 - Consent to the availability of reports and to examinations

## Text

Any organization other than State banks, trust companies, and savings associations shall, as a condition precedent to securing discount privileges with a bank of the Farm Credit System, file with such bank its written consent to examination by farm credit examiners as may be directed by the Farm Credit Administration; and State banks, trust companies, and savings associations may be required in like manner to file a written consent that reports of their examination by constituted State authorities may be furnished by such authorities upon the request of the Farm Credit Administration.

(Pub. L. 92–181, title V, § 5.21, formerly § 5.22, Dec. 10, 1971, 85 Stat. 623; renumbered § 5.21, Pub. L. 99–205, title II, § 203(b), Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1694.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Prior ProvisionsA prior section 5.21 of Pub. L. 92–181 was renumbered section 5.20 and is classified to section 2255 of this title.