Title 12, Banks and BankingRelease 119-102
§13 Rooms for Currency Bureau
Title 12 › CHAPTER 1 — THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY › § 13
Summary
The Secretary of the Treasury must give the Comptroller of the Currency rooms in the Treasury Building for the Currency Bureau, and those rooms must include secure, fireproof vaults to hold printing plates and other valuables. The Comptroller must supply the office’s furniture, paper, fuel, lights, and other needed items.
Full Legal Text
Title 12, §13
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There shall be assigned, from time to time, to the Comptroller of the Currency, by the Secretary of the Treasury, suitable rooms in the Treasury Building for conducting the business of the Currency Bureau, containing safe and secure fireproof vaults, in which the Comptroller shall deposit and safely keep all the plates not necessarily in the possession of engravers or printers, and other valuable things belonging to his department; and the Comptroller shall from time to time furnish the necessary furniture, stationery, fuel, lights, and other proper conveniences for the transaction of the business of his office.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
References in Text
The bureau referred to in text is known as the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Codification R.S. § 331 derived from act June 3, 1864, ch. 106, § 3, 13 Stat. 100, which was the National Bank Act. See section 38 of this title.
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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Citation
12 U.S.C. § 13
Title 12, Banks and Banking
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102