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Title 12, Banks and BankingRelease 119-102

§2262 Temporary Cease and Desist Orders

Title 12 › CHAPTER 23 — FARM CREDIT SYSTEM › SUBCHAPTER V — FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION ORGANIZATION › Part C — Enforcement Powers of Farm Credit Administration › § 2262

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Farm Credit Administration can quickly order a Farm Credit institution or the people who run it to stop certain violations or unsafe practices if those actions are likely to make the institution insolvent, drain its assets or earnings, seriously weaken it, or hurt investors or shareholders before the agency finishes its formal case. The order takes effect when it is served and tells the institution or those people to stop the conduct and take steps to prevent the harm. It stays in force until the agency drops the charges or a final order replaces it, unless a court acts sooner. Within ten days after being served, the institution or any person served can go to the U.S. district court where the institution’s main office is, or to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and ask that the temporary order be set aside, limited, or paused while the administrative case continues. The court has the power to grant that request.

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Title 12, §2262

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(a)Whenever the Farm Credit Administration shall determine that the violation or threatened violation or the unsafe or unsound practice or practices, specified in the notice of charges served upon the institution or any director, officer, employee, agent, or other person participating in the conduct of the affairs of such institution under section 2261 of this title, or the continuation thereof, is likely to cause insolvency or substantial dissipation of assets or earnings of the institution, or is likely to seriously weaken the condition of the institution or otherwise seriously prejudice the interests of the investors in Farm Credit System obligations or shareholders in the institution prior to the completion of the proceedings conducted under section 2261 of this title, the Farm Credit Administration may issue a temporary order requiring the institution or such director, officer, employee, agent, or other person to cease and desist from any such violation or practice and to take affirmative action to prevent such insolvency, dissipation, condition, or prejudice pending completion of such proceedings. Such order shall become effective upon service upon the institution or such director, officer, employee, agent, or other person participating in the conduct of the affairs of such institution and, unless set aside, limited, or suspended by a court in proceedings authorized by subsection (b), shall remain effective and enforceable pending the completion of the administrative proceedings pursuant to such notice and until such time as the Farm Credit Administration shall dismiss the charges specified in such notice, or if a cease and desist order is issued against the institution or such director, officer, employee, agent, or other person, until effective date of such order.
(b)Within ten days after the institution concerned or any director, officer, employee, agent, or other person participating in the conduct of the affairs of such institution has been served with a temporary cease and desist order, the institution or such director, officer, employee, agent, or other person may apply to the United States district court for the judicial district in which the home office of the institution is located, or the United States district court for the District of Columbia, for an injunction setting aside, limiting, or suspending the enforcement, operation, or effectiveness of such order pending the completion of the administrative proceedings pursuant to the notice of charges served upon the institution or such director, officer, employee, agent, or other person under section 2261 of this title, and such court shall have jurisdiction to issue such injunction.

Legislative History

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Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 5.26 of Pub. L. 92–181 was renumbered section 5.40 and is set out in part as notes under section 2001 of this title.

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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. § 2262

Title 12, Banks and Banking

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102