Title 12 — Banks and BankingRelease 119-73
§204 Examinations
Title 12 › Chapter CHAPTER 2— - NATIONAL BANKS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XIV— - BANK CONSERVATION ACT › § 204
Summary
The Comptroller may, with the FDIC board when it is conservator, examine and oversee a bank while it keeps operating, and may use FDIC reports.
Full Legal Text
Title 12, §204
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The Comptroller of the Currency (in consultation with the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation when the Corporation is appointed conservator) is authorized to examine and supervise the bank in conservatorship as long as the bank continues to operate as a going concern. The Comptroller may use reports and other information provided by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for this purpose.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1989—Pub. L. 101–73 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section read as follows: “The Comptroller of the Currency shall cause to be made such examinations of the affairs of such bank as shall be necessary to inform him as to the financial condition of such bank, and the examiner shall make a report thereon to the Comptroller of the Currency at the earliest practicable date.”
Executive Documents
Exception as to
Transfer of Functions
Functions vested by any provision of law in Comptroller of the Currency, referred to in this section, not included in
Transfer of Functions
to Secretary of the Treasury, see note set out under section 1 of this title.
Reference
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Citation
12 U.S.C. § 204
Title 12 — Banks and Banking
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73