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§3202 Dual Service of Management Official as Management Official of Unaffiliated Institution or Holding Company in Same Area, Town, or Village Prohibited

Title 12 › CHAPTER 33 — DEPOSITORY INSTITUTION MANAGEMENT INTERLOCKS › § 3202

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

A manager or executive at a depository institution or a company that owns such institutions must not also be a manager at another, unrelated depository institution or holding company if the two have offices located near each other. "Near" means in the same metropolitan area (as defined by the Office of Management and Budget) or in the same city, town, or village, or in a city, town, or village next to it. If one institution has less than $50,000,000 in assets, only the city/town rule applies.

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Title 12, §3202

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A management official of a depository institution or a depository holding company may not serve as a management official of any other depository institution or depository holding company not affiliated therewith if an office of one of the institutions or any depository institution that is an affiliate of such institutions is located within either—
(1)the same primary metropolitan statistical area, the same metropolitan statistical area, or the same consolidated metropolitan statistical area that is not comprised of designated primary metropolitan statistical areas as defined by the Office of Management and Budget, except in the case of depository institutions with less than $50,000,000 in assets in which case the provision of paragraph (2) shall apply, as that in which an office of the other institution or any depository institution that is an affiliate of such other institution is located, or
(2)the same city, town, or village as that in which an office of the other institution or any depository institution that is an affiliate of such other institution is located, or in any city, town, or village contiguous or adjacent thereto.

Legislative History

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Editorial Notes

Amendments

2006—Par. (1). Pub. L. 109–351 substituted “$50,000,000” for “$20,000,000”. 1983—Par. (1). Pub. L. 98–181 substituted “primary metropolitan statistical area, the same metropolitan statistical area, or the same consolidated metropolitan statistical area that is not comprised of designated primary metropolitan statistical areas” for “standard metropolitan statistical area”.

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Effective Date

Section effective upon the expiration of 120 days after Nov. 10, 1978, see section 2101 of Pub. L. 95–630, set out as a note under section 375b of this title.

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Citation

12 U.S.C. § 3202

Title 12, Banks and Banking

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102