Title 12 — Banks and BankingRelease 119-73
§486 Waiver of requirements as to reports from or examinations of affiliates
Title 12 › Chapter CHAPTER 3— - FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XV— - BANK EXAMINATIONS › § 486
Summary
The Federal Reserve Board or the Comptroller of the Currency can decide that a bank's affiliate does not have to file a report or undergo an exam. They may do this only if they believe the report or exam is not needed to clearly show the affiliate's ties to the bank and how those ties affect the bank.
Full Legal Text
Title 12, §486
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Whenever member banks are required to obtain reports from affiliates, or whenever affiliates of member banks are required to submit to examination, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Comptroller of the Currency, as the case may be, may waive such requirements with respect to any such report or examination of any affiliate if in the judgment of the said Board or Comptroller, respectively, such report or examination is not necessary to disclose fully the relations between such affiliate and such bank and the effect thereof upon the affairs of such bank.
Legislative History
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Editorial Notes
Codification This section was not enacted as part of R.S. § 5240 which comprises this subchapter. Act Dec. 23, 1913, derived from R.S. § 5240.
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.
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12 U.S.C. § 486
Title 12 — Banks and Banking
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73