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Title 12 › Chapter CHAPTER 23— - FARM CREDIT SYSTEM › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV— - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO TWO OR MORE CLASSES OF INSTITUTIONS OF THE SYSTEM › Part Part C— - Rights of Borrowers; Loan Restructuring › § 2200

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Under Farm Credit Administration rules, qualified lenders must give borrowers copies of papers they sign when the loan is made and anytime the borrower asks, plus the lender’s charter and bylaws and any appraisals made or used by the lender.

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Title 12, §2200

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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.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1988—Pub. L. 100–233 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 Dec. 23, 1985, see section 401 of Pub. L. 99–205, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1985 Amendment note under section 2001 of this title.

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Citation

12 U.S.C. § 2200

Title 12Banks and Banking

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

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