12 USC § 466 - Reserves of banks in dependencies or insular possessions

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identifier: "/us/usc/t12/s466"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "12 USC § 466 - Reserves of banks in dependencies or insular possessions"
title_number: 12
title_name: "BANKS AND BANKING"
section_number: "466"
section_name: "Reserves of banks in dependencies or insular possessions"
chapter_number: 3
chapter_name: "FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM"
subchapter_number: "XIV"
subchapter_name: "BANK RESERVES"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 19(h), formerly § 19 (par. 11), 38 Stat. 270; Aug. 15, 1914, ch. 252, 38 Stat. 692; June 21, 1917, ch. 32, § 10, 40 Stat. 240; Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 614, title II, § 203(a), 49 Stat. 704; Pub. L. 86–70, § 8(b), June 25, 1959, 73 Stat. 142; renumbered § 19(h), Pub. L. 89–597, § 2(b), Sept. 21, 1966, 80 Stat. 824.)"
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# § 466. Reserves of banks in dependencies or insular possessions

National banks, or banks organized under local laws, located in a dependency or insular possession or any part of the United States outside the continental United States, may remain nonmember banks, and shall in that event maintain reserves and comply with all the conditions now provided by law regulating them; or said banks may with the consent of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, become member banks of any one of the reserve districts, and shall in that event take stock, maintain reserves, and be subject to all the other provisions of this chapter.

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**Source Credit**: (Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 19(h), formerly § 19 (par. 11), 38 Stat. 270; Aug. 15, 1914, ch. 252, 38 Stat. 692; June 21, 1917, ch. 32, § 10, 40 Stat. 240; Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 614, title II, § 203(a), 49 Stat. 704; Pub. L. 86–70, § 8(b), June 25, 1959, 73 Stat. 142; renumbered § 19(h), Pub. L. 89–597, § 2(b), Sept. 21, 1966, 80 Stat. 824.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning , , known as the Federal Reserve Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see References in Text note set out under  and Tables.

### Codification

Section is comprised of subsec. (h), formerly eleventh par., of section 19 of act , as redesignated by .

### Amendments

1959— struck out “in Alaska or” before “in a dependency”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Section 203(a) of act , changed name of Federal Reserve Board to Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.