12 CFR § 714.6 - Are you required to retain salvage powers over the leased property?

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title: "12 CFR § 714.6 - Are you required to retain salvage powers over the leased property?"
title_number: 12
title_name: "Banks and Banking"
section_number: "714.6"
section_name: "Are you required to retain salvage powers over the leased property?"
chapter_name: "NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION"
subchapter_number: "A"
subchapter_name: "REGULATIONS AFFECTING CREDIT UNIONS"
part_number: "714"
part_name: "LEASING"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "12 U.S.C. 1756, 1757, 1766, 1785, 1789."
regulatory_source: "65 FR 34585, May 31, 2000, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "714"
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# 714.6 Are you required to retain salvage powers over the leased property?

You must retain salvage powers over the leased property. Salvage powers protect you from a loss and provide you with the power to take action if there is an unanticipated change in conditions that threatens your financial position by significantly increasing your exposure to risk. Salvage powers allow you:

(a) As the owner and lessor, to take reasonable and appropriate action to salvage or protect the value of the property or your interests arising under the lease; or

(b) As the assignee of a lease, to become the owner and lessor of the leased property pursuant to your contractual rights, or take any reasonable and appropriate action to salvage or protect the value of the property or your interests arising under the lease.