2015 US Code
Title 12 - Banks and Banking (Sections 1 - 5710)
Chapter 6 - Foreign Banking (Sections 601 - 633)
Subchapter II - Organization of Corporations to Do Foreign Banking (Sections 611 - 633)
Sec. 626 - Dividends; surplus fund
| 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 6 - FOREIGN BANKING SUBCHAPTER II - ORGANIZATION OF CORPORATIONS TO DO FOREIGN BANKING Sec. 626 - Dividends; surplus fund |
| Contains | section 626 |
| Date | 2015 |
| Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 3, 2016 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, §25A (par.), formerly §25(a), as added Dec. 24, 1919, ch. 18, 41 Stat. 378; renumbered §25A, Pub. L. 102-242, title I, §142(e)(2), Dec. 19, 1991, 105 Stat. 2281. |
| Statutes at Large References | 41 Stat. 378 105 Stat. 2281 |
| Public and Private Laws | Public Law 102-242 |
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The directors of any corporation organized under the provisions of this subchapter may, semiannually, declare a dividend of so much of the net profits of the corporation as they shall judge expedient; but each corporation shall, before the declaration of a dividend, carry one-tenth of its net profits of the preceding half year to its surplus fund until the same shall amount to 20 per centum of its capital stock.
(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, §25A (par.), formerly §25(a), as added Dec. 24, 1919, ch. 18, 41 Stat. 378; renumbered §25A, Pub. L. 102–242, title I, §142(e)(2), Dec. 19, 1991, 105 Stat. 2281.)
REFERENCES IN TEXTThis subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original "this section", meaning section 25A of act Dec. 23, 1913, which is classified to this subchapter (§611 et seq.).
CODIFICATIONSection is comprised of par. 18 (undesignated) of section 25A of act Dec. 23, 1913, which comprises this subchapter. For complete classification of section 25A of this Act, see Codification note set out under section 611 of this title.
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