Title 12 — Banks and BankingRelease 119-73not60
§1701m Credit and Cancellation of Notes Transferred From Reconstruction Finance Corporation; Net Loss Computation
Title 12 › Chapter 13— NATIONAL HOUSING › § 1701m
Summary
The Treasury Secretary must cancel the notes the Housing and Home Finance Administrator issued for loans moved from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to the Housing and Home Finance Agency under Reorganization Plan No. 23 of 1950 (64 Stat. 1279), up to the net loss the Secretary finds. Net loss means unpaid principal, advances to protect collateral, accrued unpaid interest, and liquidation costs (except certain admin-limited expenses), minus what the Agency actually recovered.
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Title 12, §1701m
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The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed from time to time to credit and cancel the note or notes of the Housing and Home Finance Administrator executed and delivered in connection with loans transferred from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to the Housing and Home Finance Agency pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 23 of 1950 (64 Stat. 1279), to the extent of the net loss, as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, sustained by said Agency in the liquidation of defaulted loans. The net loss shall be the sum of the unpaid principal and advances for care and preservation of collateral, together with accrued and unpaid interest on said principal and advances, and all expenses and costs (other than those subject to administrative expense limitations) in connection with the liquidation of defaulted loans, less the amount actually realized by the Housing and Home Finance Agency on account of such defaulted loans.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Reorganization Plan Numbered 23 of 1950, referred to in text, is set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Housing Act of 1952, and not as part of the National Housing Act which comprises this chapter.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Transfer of Functions
Functions, powers, and duties of Housing and Home Finance Agency and its Administrator transferred to and vested in Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by Pub. L. 89–174, § 5, Sept. 9, 1965, 79 Stat. 669, classified to section 3534 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Termination and Liquidation of Re
Construction
Finance CorporationTermination on June 30, 1954, of Re
Construction
Finance Corporation and liquidation thereof, see section 608 and 609 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade, and notes thereunder.
Executive Documents
Abolition of Re
Construction
Finance Corporation section 6(a) of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1957, eff. June 30, 1957, 22 F.R. 4633, 71 Stat. 647, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, abolished Re
Construction
Finance Corporation.
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12 U.S.C. § 1701m
Title 12 — Banks and Banking
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Apr 3, 2026
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