---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 1767"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "1767"
heading: "Fiscal agents and depositories; authorization to secure deposits by governmental bodies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/1767"
units:
  - "Chapter 14 — Federal Credit Unions"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §1767. Fiscal agents and depositories; authorization to secure deposits by governmental bodies

- (a) Each [Federal credit union](/usc/12/1752.md?p=1) organized under this chapter, when requested by the [Secretary](/usc/12/1715z–22a.md?p=4) of the Treasury, shall act as fiscal agent of the United States and shall perform such services as the [Secretary](/usc/12/1715z–22a.md?p=4) of the Treasury may require in connection with the collection of taxes and other obligations due the United States and the lending, borrowing, and repayment of money by the United States, including the issue, sale, redemption, or repurchase of bonds, notes, Treasury certificates of indebtedness, or other obligations of the United States; and to facilitate such purposes the [Board](/usc/12/1752.md?p=4) shall furnish to the [Secretary](/usc/12/1715z–22a.md?p=4) of the Treasury from time to time the names and addresses of all [Federal credit unions](/usc/12/1752.md?p=1) with such other available information concerning them as may be requested by the [Secretary](/usc/12/1715z–22a.md?p=4) of the Treasury. Any [Federal credit union](/usc/12/1752.md?p=1) organized under this chapter, when designated for that purpose by the [Secretary](/usc/12/1715z–22a.md?p=4) of the Treasury, shall be a depository of public money, except receipts from customs, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/12/1715z–22a.md?p=4) of the Treasury.
- (b) Any [Federal credit union](/usc/12/1752.md?p=1), upon the deposit with it of any [funds](/usc/12/1752.md?p=8) by the Federal Government, an Indian tribe, or any [State](/usc/12/1707.md?p=d) or local government or political subdivision thereof as otherwise authorized by this chapter, is authorized to pledge any of its assets securing the payment of the [funds](/usc/12/1752.md?p=8) so deposited.

## Source credit

(June 26, 1934, ch. 750, title I, § 121, formerly § 17, 48 Stat. 1222; 1947, Reorg. Plan No. 1, § 401, eff. July 1, 1947, 12 F.R. 4534, 61 Stat. 952; June 29, 1948, ch. 711, §§ 1, 2, 62 Stat. 1091; renumbered § 22, Pub. L. 86–354, § 1, Sept. 22, 1959, 73 Stat. 637; amended Pub. L. 91–206, § 2(1), Mar. 10, 1970, 84 Stat. 49; renumbered title I, § 121, Pub. L. 91–468, § 1(2), Oct. 19, 1970, 84 Stat. 994; amended Pub. L. 95–630, title V, § 502(b), Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3681; Pub. L. 100–86, title VII, § 716, Aug. 10, 1987, 101 Stat. 656.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1987—Pub. L. 100–86 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

1978—Pub. L. 95–630 substituted “Board” for “Administrator”.

1970—Pub. L. 91–206 substituted “Administrator” for “Director”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1978 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 95–630 effective on expiration of 120 days after Nov. 10, 1978, and transitional provisions, see section 509 of Pub. L. 95–630, set out as a note under section 1752 of this title.

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

Transfer of functions of Farm Credit Administration and Governor thereof, generally, see notes set out under section 1751 of this title.

Functions of Governor of Farm Credit Administration under this section transferred to Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation by Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1947.