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type: "LegalText"
title: "12 U.S.C. § 356"
description: "Purchase of commercial paper from member banks and sale of same"
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title_number: 12
title_name: "BANKS AND BANKING"
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chapter_name: "FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM"
section: "356"
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# 12 U.S.C. § 356 - Purchase of commercial paper from member banks and sale of same
## Text
Every Federal reserve bank shall have power to purchase from member banks and to sell, with or without its indorsement, bills of exchange arising out of commercial transactions, as hereinbefore defined.
(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 14(c), 38 Stat. 264.)
## Notes
Editorial Notes
Codification Section is comprised of subsec. (c) of section 14 of act Dec. 23, 1913. For classification to this title of remainder of section 14, see Codification note under section 353 of this title.