2015 US Code
Title 12 - Banks and Banking (Sections 1 - 5710)
Chapter 2 - National Banks (Sections 21 - 216d)
Subchapter XVII - Disposition of Unclaimed Property Recovered From Closed National Banks (Sections 216 - 216d)
Sec. 216a - Definitions
Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 3, Title 12 - BANKS AND BANKING |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 12 - BANKS AND BANKING CHAPTER 2 - NATIONAL BANKS SUBCHAPTER XVII - DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY RECOVERED FROM CLOSED NATIONAL BANKS Sec. 216a - Definitions |
Contains | section 216a |
Date | 2015 |
Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 3, 2016 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | Pub. L. 96-221, title VII, §732, as added Pub. L. 97-320, title IV, §408, Oct. 15, 1982, 96 Stat. 1513; amended Pub. L. 109-351, title VII, §725(c)(2), Oct. 13, 2006, 120 Stat. 2001; Pub. L. 109-356, title I, §123(c)(2), Oct. 16, 2006, 120 Stat. 2029. |
Statutes at Large References | 96 Stat. 1513 120 Stat. 2001, 2029 |
Public and Private Laws | Public Law 96-221, Public Law 97-320, Public Law 109-351, Public Law 109-356 |
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For purposes of this subchapter—
(1) the term "Comptroller" means the Comptroller of the Currency;
(2) the term "unclaimed property" means any articles, items, assets, other property, or the proceeds thereof from safe deposit boxes or other safekeeping arrangements with closed national banks, which are in the possession, custody, or control of the Comptroller in its capacity as successor to receivers of those banks; and
(3) the term "claimant" means any person or entity, including a State under applicable statutory law, asserting a demonstrable legal interest in title to, or custody or possession of, unclaimed property.
(Pub. L. 96–221, title VII, §732, as added Pub. L. 97–320, title IV, §408, Oct. 15, 1982, 96 Stat. 1513; amended Pub. L. 109–351, title VII, §725(c)(2), Oct. 13, 2006, 120 Stat. 2001; Pub. L. 109–356, title I, §123(c)(2), Oct. 16, 2006, 120 Stat. 2029.)
AMENDMENTS2006—Par. (2). Pub. L. 109–351 and 109–356 amended par. (2) identically, striking out "or closed banks in the District of Columbia" after "closed national banks".
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