---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 1788"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "1788"
heading: "Special assistance to avoid liquidation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/1788"
units:
  - "Chapter 14 — Federal Credit Unions"
  - "Subchapter II — Share Insurance"
---

# §1788. Special assistance to avoid liquidation

- (a) **Loans; purchase of assets; accounts; agreements affecting interest of Board in any asset acquired by it—**
  - (1) In order to reopen a closed [insured credit union](/usc/12/1752.md?p=7) or in order to prevent the closing of an [insured credit union](/usc/12/1752.md?p=7) which the [Board](/usc/12/1752.md?p=4) has determined is in danger of closing or in order to assist in the voluntary liquidation of a solvent [credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) union, the [Board](/usc/12/1752.md?p=4), in its discretion, is authorized to make loans to, or purchase the assets of, or establish [accounts](/usc/12/1752.md?p=5) in such [insured credit union](/usc/12/1752.md?p=7) upon such terms and conditions as it may prescribe. Except with respect to the voluntary liquidation of a solvent [credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) union, such loans shall be made and such [accounts](/usc/12/1752.md?p=5) shall be established only when, in the opinion of the [Board](/usc/12/1752.md?p=4), such action is necessary to protect the [fund](/usc/12/1752.md?p=8) or the interests of the members of the [credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) union.
  - (2) Whenever in the judgment of the [Board](/usc/12/1752.md?p=4) such action will reduce the risk or avert a threatened loss to the [fund](/usc/12/1752.md?p=8) and will facilitate a merger or consolidation of an [insured credit union](/usc/12/1752.md?p=7) with another [insured credit union](/usc/12/1752.md?p=7), or will facilitate the sale of the assets of an open or closed [insured credit union](/usc/12/1752.md?p=7) to and assumption of its liability by another [person](/usc/12/5481.md?p=19), the [Board](/usc/12/1752.md?p=4) may, upon such terms and conditions as it may determine, make loans secured in whole or in part by assets of an open or closed [insured credit union](/usc/12/1752.md?p=7), which loans may be in subordination to the rights of members and creditors of such [credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) union, or the [Board](/usc/12/1752.md?p=4) may purchase any of such assets or may guarantee any [person](/usc/12/5481.md?p=19) against loss by reason of its assuming the liabilities and purchasing the assets of an open or closed [insured credit union](/usc/12/1752.md?p=7). For purposes of this paragraph, the term “[person](/usc/12/5481.md?p=19)” means any [credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) union, individual, partnership, corporation, trust, estate, cooperative, association, government or governmental subdivision or agency, or other entity.
  - (3) No agreement which tends to diminish or defeat the right, title, or interest of the [Board](/usc/12/1752.md?p=4), in any asset acquired by it under this subsection, either as security for a loan or by purchase, shall be valid against the [Board](/usc/12/1752.md?p=4) unless such agreement—
    - (A) shall be in writing;
    - (B) shall have been executed by the [credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) union and the [person](/usc/12/5481.md?p=19) or [persons](/usc/12/5481.md?p=19) claiming an adverse interest thereunder, including the obligor, contemporaneously with the acquisition of the asset by the [credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) union;
    - (C) shall have been approved by the [board](/usc/12/1752.md?p=4) of [directors](/usc/12/5481.md?p=10) of the [credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) union, which approval shall be reflected in the minutes of such [board](/usc/12/1752.md?p=4); and
    - (D) shall have been continuously, from the time of its execution, an official record of the [credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) union.
- (b) **Protection of Fund—** For the protection of the [Fund](/usc/12/1752.md?p=8), the [Board](/usc/12/1752.md?p=4), without regard to chapters [1](/usc/40/chstI/ch1.md) to [11](/usc/40/chstI/ch11.md) of title 40 and division C (except sections [3302](/usc/12/3302.md), [3307(e)](/usc/12/3307.md), 3501(b), 3509, [3906](/usc/12/3906.md), [4710](/usc/12/4710.md), and [4711](/usc/12/4711.md)) of subtitle I of [title 41](/usc/41.md), may—
  - (1) deal with, complete, reconstruct, rent, renovate, modernize, insure, make contracts for the management of, sell for cash or [credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7), or lease, in its discretion, any real property acquired or held by it under this section; and
  - (2) assign or sell at public or private sale, or otherwise dispose of, any evidence of debt, contract, claim, personal property, or security assigned to or held by it under this section.

  [Section 6101 of title 41](/usc/41/6101.md) shall not apply to any purchase or contract for services or supplies made or entered into by the [Board](/usc/12/1752.md?p=4) under this section if the amount thereof does not exceed $1,000, or to any contract for hazard insurance on any real property acquired or held by it under this section.

- (c) **Money paid into Fund—** Money received by the [Board](/usc/12/1752.md?p=4) in carrying out this section shall be paid into the [Fund](/usc/12/1752.md?p=8).

## Source credit

(June 26, 1934, ch. 750, title II, § 208, as added Pub. L. 91–468, § 1(3), Oct. 19, 1970, 84 Stat. 1013; amended Pub. L. 92–221, § 3, Dec. 23, 1971, 85 Stat. 797; Pub. L. 93–383, title VII, § 729, Aug. 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 721; Pub. L. 95–630, title V, § 502(b), Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3681; Pub. L. 100–86, title VII, § 714(b), (c), Aug. 10, 1987, 101 Stat. 655.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

In subsec. (b), “chapters 1 to 11 of title 40 and division C (except sections 3302, 3307(e), 3501(b), 3509, 3906, 4710, and 4711) of subtitle I of title 41” substituted for “the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949” and “Section 6101 of title 41” substituted for “Section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States” on authority of Pub. L. 107–217, § 5(c), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1303, which Act enacted Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, and Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts.

### Amendments

1987—Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 100–86 redesignated subsec. (c) as section 1787(j) of this title and subsec. (d) as (c).

1978—Pub. L. 95–630 substituted “Board” for “Administrator” wherever appearing, “it” for “he” and “its” for “him”, and “its” for “his”, where appropriate.

1974—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 93–383 inserted provisions relating to the voluntary liquidation of a solvent credit union and struck out provisions subordinating loans and accounts to the rights of members and creditors of the credit union.

1971—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 92–221 substituted “assumption of its liability by another person” for “assumption of its liability by another insured credit union” and “may guarantee any person against loss by reason of his” for “may guarantee any other insured credit union against loss by reason of its” and inserted definition of “person” as that term is used in par. (2).

### 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.