12 USC § 81 - Place of business

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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "12 USC § 81 - Place of business"
title_number: 12
title_name: "BANKS AND BANKING"
section_number: "81"
section_name: "Place of business"
chapter_number: 2
chapter_name: "NATIONAL BANKS"
subchapter_number: "IV"
subchapter_name: "REGULATION OF THE BANKING BUSINESS; POWERS AND DUTIES OF NATIONAL BANKS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(R.S. § 5190; Feb. 25, 1927, ch. 191, § 8, 44 Stat. 1229.)"
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# § 81. Place of business

section 36 of this title

The general business of each national banking association shall be transacted in the place specified in its organization certificate and in the branch or branches, if any, established or maintained by it in accordance with the provisions of .

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**Source Credit**: (R.S. § 5190; Feb. 25, 1927, ch. 191, § 8, 44 Stat. 1229.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 5190 derived from , , which was the National Bank Act. See .

### Amendments

1927—Act , among other changes, inserted “and in the branch or branches, if any, established or maintained by it in accordance with the provisions of ”.