12 USC § 2200 - Access to documents and information

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identifier: "/us/usc/t12/s2200"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "12 USC § 2200 - Access to documents and information"
title_number: 12
title_name: "BANKS AND BANKING"
section_number: "2200"
section_name: "Access to documents and information"
chapter_number: 23
chapter_name: "FARM CREDIT SYSTEM"
subchapter_number: "IV"
subchapter_name: "PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO TWO OR MORE CLASSES OF INSTITUTIONS OF THE SYSTEM"
part_number: "C"
part_name: "Rights of Borrowers; Loan Restructuring"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 92–181, title IV, § 4.13A, as added Pub. L. 99–205, title III, § 301(b), Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1707; amended Pub. L. 100–233, title I, § 104, Jan. 6, 1988, 101 Stat. 1579.)"
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# § 2200. Access to documents and information

In accordance with regulations of the Farm Credit Administration, qualified lenders shall provide their borrowers, at the time of execution of loans, copies of all documents signed by the borrower and at any time thereafter, on a borrower’s request, copies of all documents signed or delivered by the borrower and at any time, on request, a copy of the institution’s articles of incorporation or charter and bylaws and copies of each appraisal of the borrower’s assets made or used by the qualified lender.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 92–181, title IV, § 4.13A, as added Pub. L. 99–205, title III, § 301(b), Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1707; amended Pub. L. 100–233, title I, § 104, Jan. 6, 1988, 101 Stat. 1579.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1988— substituted “qualified lenders” for “System institutions” and inserted “and copies of each appraisal of the borrower’s assets made or used by the qualified lender” before period at end.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective thirty days after , see , set out as an Effective Date of 1985 Amendment note under .