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title: "12 U.S.C. § 2219"
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title_number: 12
title_name: "BANKS AND BANKING"
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citation: "12 U.S.C. § 2219"
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# 12 U.S.C. § 2219 - Limitation on separate sale

## Text

If real property is acquired by any institution of the Farm Credit System through foreclosure, no institution of the Farm Credit System shall sell the surface rights to that real property to any person unless the institution also sells all mineral rights to that real property to that person.

(Pub. L. 92–181, title IV, § 4.35, as added Pub. L. 99–205, title III, § 306, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1709.)

## Notes

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective DateSection effective thirty days after Dec. 23, 1985, see section 401 of Pub. L. 99–205, set out as an Effective Date of 1985 Amendment note under section 2001 of this title.