Municipal Bonds Emergency Relief Act

“(3) In unusual and exigent circumstances, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, by the affirmative vote of not fewer than 5 members, may authorize any Federal reserve bank, during such periods as the Board may determine, to buy and sell, at home or abroad, bills, notes, revenue bonds, and warrants of any maturity, by any State, county, district, political subdivision, instrumentality of a political subdivision, territory, possession, or municipality in the United States, including irrigation, drainage and reclamation districts. All such actions shall be subject to such limitations, restrictions, and regulations as the Board may prescribe.”