Federal Reserve Act

Dispersed throughout 12 USC; ch. 6, 38 Stat. 251 (December 23, 1913)
  • Section
  • Short title and definitions 
  • Federal Reserve districts
  • Monetary policy objectives
  • Appearances before and reports to the Congress
  • Branch offices
  • Federal Reserve Banks
  • Stock issues; increase and decrease of capital
  • Insolvency of member banks
  • Division of earnings
  • Conversion of state banks into national banks
  • State banks as members
  • Participation in lotteries prohibited 
  • Resolution of clearing banks
  • Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
  • Emergency advances to groups of member banks
  • Advances to individual member banks
  • Powers of Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
  • Pricing of services
  • Annual independent audits of Federal Reserve Banks and Board
  • Master account and services database
  • Federal Advisory Council
  • Federal Open Market Committee
  • Powers of Federal Reserve Banks
  • Discount of agricultural paper
  • Open-market operations
  • Government deposits 
  • Note issues
  • Deposit of bonds by national banks
  • Refunding bonds
  • Bank reserves
  • National bank notes redemption fund as reserve
  • Bank examinations
  • Offenses of examiners, member banks, officers, and directors
  • Interbank liabilities
  • Relations with affiliates
  • Restrictions on transactions with affiliates
  • Real estate loans 
  • Investment in bank premises or stock of corporation holding premises 
  • Foreign branches 
  • Banking corporations authorized to do foreign banking business
  • Jurisdiction of suits 
  • Potential liability on foreign accounts
  • [Repealed]
  • Tax on national bank notes
  • Reduction of capital of national banks
  • Civil money penalty
  • Saving clause 
  • Reservation of right to amend