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12 U.S.C. § 30 — Change of name or location
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**(a) Name change** Any national banking association, upon written notice to the Comptroller of the Currency, may change its name, except that such new name shall include the word “National”.
**(b) Location change** Any national banking association, upon written notice to the Comptroller of the Currency, may change the location of its main office to any authorized branch location within the limits of the city, town, or village in which it is situated, or, with a vote of shareholders owning two-thirds of the stock of such association for a relocation outside such limits and upon receipt of a certificate of approval from the Comptroller of the Currency, to any other location within or outside the limits of the city, town, or village in which it is located, but not more than thirty miles beyond such limits.
**(c) Coordination with [section 36 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title12-section36&num=0&edition=prelim)** In the case of a national bank which relocates the main office of such bank from 1 State to another State after May 31, 1997, the bank may retain and operate branches within the State from which the bank relocated such office only to the extent authorized in [section 36(e)(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title12-section36/e/2&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(d) Retention of “Federal” in name of converted Federal savings association**
(1) **In general** — Notwithstanding subsection (a) or any other provision of law, any depository institution, the charter of which is converted from that of a Federal savings association to a national bank or a State bank after November 12, 1999, may retain the term “Federal” in the name of such institution if such institution remains an insured
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**(a) Name change** Any national banking association, upon written notice to the Comptroller of the Currency, may change its name, except that such new name shall include the word “National”.
**(b) Location change** Any national banking association, upon written notice to the Comptroller of the Currency, may change the location of its main office to any authorized branch location within the limits of the city, town, or village in which it is situated, or, with a vote of shareholders owning two-thirds of the stock of such association for a relocation outside such limits and upon receipt of a certificate of approval from the Comptroller of the Currency, to any other location within or outside the limits of the city, town, or village in which it is located, but not more than thirty miles beyond such limits.
**(c) Coordination with [section 36 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title12-section36&num=0&edition=prelim)** In the case of a national bank which relocates the main office of such bank from 1 State to another State after May 31, 1997, the bank may retain and operate branches within the State from which the bank relocated such office only to the extent authorized in [section 36(e)(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title12-section36/e/2&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(d) Retention of “Federal” in name of converted Federal savings association**
(1) **In general** — Notwithstanding subsection (a) or any other provision of law, any depository institution, the charter of which is converted from that of a Federal savings association to a national bank or a State bank after November 12, 1999, may retain the term “Federal” in the name of such institution if such institution remains an insured depository institution.
(2) **Definitions** — For purposes of this subsection, the terms “depository institution”, “insured depository institution”, “national bank”, and “State bank” have the meanings given those terms in [section 1813 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title12-section1813&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Office of the Comptroller of the Currency established** There is established in the Department of the Treasury a bureau to be known as the “Office of the Comptroller of the Currency” which is charged with assuring the safety and soundness of, and compliance with laws and regulations, fair access to financial services, and fair treatment of customers by, the institutions and other persons subject to its jurisdiction.
**(b) Comptroller of the Currency**
(1) **In general** — The chief officer of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency shall be known as the Comptroller of the Currency. The Comptroller of the Currency shall perform the duties of the Comptroller of the Currency under the general direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury may not delay or prevent the issuance of any rule or the promulgation of any regulation by the Comptroller of the Currency, and may not intervene in any matter or proceeding before the Comptroller of the Currency (including agency enforcement actions), unless otherwise specifically provided by law.
(2) **Additional authority** — The Comptroller of the Currency shall have the same authority with respect to functions transferred to the Comptroller of the Currency under the Enhancing Financial Institution Safety and Soundness Act of 2010 as was vested in the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision on the transfer date, as defined in section 311 of that Act [[12 U.S.C. 5411](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title12-section5411&num=0&edition=prelim)].
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The conditions upon which a national banking association may retain or establish and operate a branch or branches are the following:
**(a) Lawful and continuous operation** A national banking association may retain and operate such branch or branches as it may have had in lawful operation on February 25, 1927, and any national banking association which continuously maintained and operated not more than one branch for a period of more than twenty-five years immediately preceding February 25, 1927, may continue to maintain and operate such branch.
**(b) Converted State banks**
(1) A national bank resulting from the conversion of a State bank may retain and operate as a branch any office which was a branch of the State bank immediately prior to conversion if such office—
(A) might be established under subsection (c) of this section as a new branch of the resulting national bank, and is approved by the Comptroller of the Currency for continued operation as a branch of the resulting national bank;
(B) was a branch of any bank on February 25, 1927; or
(C) is approved by the Comptroller of the Currency for continued operation as a branch of the resulting national bank.
The Comptroller of the Currency may not grant approval under clause (C) of this paragraph if a State bank (in a situation identical to that of the national bank) resulting from the conversion of a national bank would be prohibited by the law of such State from retaining and operating as a branch an identically situated office which was a branch of the national bank immediately prior to conversion.
(2) A national bank (referred to in this paragraph as the “resulting bank”), resulting from the consolidation of a national bank (referred to in this paragraph as the “national bank”) under whose charter
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As used in this chapter—
**(a) Definitions of bank and related terms**
(1) **Bank** — The term “bank”—
(A) means any national bank and State bank, and any Federal branch and insured branch;
(B) includes any former savings association.
(2) **State bank** — The term “State bank” means any bank, banking association, trust company, savings bank, industrial bank (or similar depository institution which the Board of Directors finds to be operating substantially in the same manner as an industrial bank), or other banking institution which—
(A) is engaged in the business of receiving deposits, other than trust funds (as defined in this section); and
(B) is incorporated under the laws of any State or which is operating under the Code of Law for the District of Columbia,
including any cooperative bank or other unincorporated bank the deposits of which were insured by the Corporation on the day before August 9, 1989.
(3) **State** — The term “State” means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, any territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
**(b) Definition of savings associations and related terms**
(1) **Savings association** — The term “savings association” means—
(A) any Federal savings association;
(B) any State savings association; and
(C) any corporation (other than a bank) that the Board of Directors and the Comptroller of the Currency jointly determine to be operating in substantially the same manner as a savings association.
(2) **Federal savings association** — The term “Federal savings association” means any Federal savings association or Federal savings bank which is chartered under [section 1464 of t
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TITLE 12—BANKS AND BANKING
§ 30
such real estate, rights, or interests for such
longer period of time as would be permitted a
State chartered bank by the law of the State in
which the association is located if the aggregate
amount of earnings from such real estate,
rights, or interests is separately disclosed in the
annual financial statements of the association.
(R.S. § 5137; Feb. 25, 1927, ch. 191, § 3, 44 Stat. 1227;
Pub. L. 96–221, title VII, § 701(a), Mar. 31, 1980, 94
Stat. 186; Pub. L. 97–25, title III, § 302, July 27,
1981, 95 Stat. 145; Pub. L. 97–320, title IV, § 413,
Oct. 15, 1982, 96 Stat. 1521.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
Title 62 of the Revised Statutes, referred to in last
par., was in the original ‘‘this title’’ meaning title LXII
of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. §§ 5133 to
5244, which are classified to this section and sections 16,
21, 22 to 24a, 25a, 25b, 26, 27, 35 to 37, 39, 43, 52, 53, 55 to
57, 59 to 62, 66, 71, 72 to 76, 81, 83 to 86, 90, 91, 93, 93a, 94,
141 to 144, 161, 164, 181, 182, 192 to 194, 196, 215c, 481 to 485,
501, 541, 548, and 582 of this title. See, also, sections 8,
333, 334, 475, 656, 709, 1004, and 1005 of Title 18, Crimes
and Criminal Procedure. For complete classification of
R.S. §§ 5133 to 5244 to the Code, see Tables.
CODIFICATION
R.S. § 5137 derived from act June 3, 1864, ch. 106, § 28,
13 Stat. 107, which was the National Bank Act. See sec-
tion 38 of this title.
AMENDMENTS
1982—Pub. L. 97–320 substituted ‘‘Notwithstanding the
five-year holding limitation of this section or any
other provision of title 62 of the Revised Statutes, any
national banking association which on October 15, 1982,
held, directly or indirectly, real estate, including any
subsurface rights or
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