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Title 12, Banks and BankingRelease 119-102

§305 Class C Directors; Selection; “federal Reserve Agent”

Title 12 › CHAPTER 3 — FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM › SUBCHAPTER VII — DIRECTORS OF FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS; RESERVE AGENTS AND ASSISTANTS › § 305

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Board of Governors appoints Class C directors for each Federal Reserve Bank. Each director must have lived in that bank’s district for at least two years. The Board picks one Class C director to be chairman, called the “Federal reserve agent.” The chairman must have proven banking experience, keep a local Board office at the bank under Board rules, report regularly to the Board, and act as the Board’s representative. The Board sets the chairman’s annual pay, and the bank pays it monthly. The Board also appoints a deputy chairman to act when needed; if both are absent, the remaining Class C director leads meetings.

Full Legal Text

Title 12, §305

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Class C directors shall be appointed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. They shall have been for at least two years residents of the district for which they are appointed, one of whom shall be designated by said board as chairman of the board of directors of the Federal reserve bank and as “Federal reserve agent.” He shall be a person of tested banking experience and in addition to his duties as chairman of the board of directors of the Federal reserve bank he shall be required to maintain, under regulations to be established by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, a local office of said board on the premises of the Federal reserve bank. He shall make regular reports to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and shall act as its official representative for the performance of the functions conferred upon it by this chapter. He shall receive an annual compensation to be fixed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and paid monthly by the Federal reserve bank to which he is designated. One of the directors of class C shall be appointed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as deputy chairman to exercise the powers of the chairman of the board when necessary. In case of the absence of the chairman and deputy chairman, the third class C director shall preside at meetings of the board.

Legislative History

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning act Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, 38 Stat. 251, known as the Federal Reserve Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

References in Text

note set out under section 226 of this title and Tables. Codification Section is comprised of par. 22 of section 4 of act Dec. 23, 1913. For classification to this title of other pars. of section 4, see Codification note set out under section 301 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

section 203(a) of act Aug. 23, 1935, changed name of Federal Reserve Board to Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

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Citation

12 U.S.C. § 305

Title 12, Banks and Banking

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102