---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 1831"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "1831"
heading: "Separability of certain provisions of this chapter"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/1831"
units:
  - "Chapter 16 — Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation"
---

# §1831. Separability of certain provisions of this chapter


The provisions of this chapter limiting the insurance of the [deposits](/usc/12/1813.md?p=l) of any depositor to a maximum less than the full amount shall be independent and separable from each and all of the provisions of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Sept. 21, 1950, ch. 967, § 2[23], formerly § 2[21], 64 Stat. 894; renumbered § 2[22], Pub. L. 90–203, § 3, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 610; renumbered § 2[23], Pub. L. 91–508, title I, § 101, Oct. 26, 1970, 84 Stat. 1114.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Section is derived from subsec. (z) of former section 264 of this title. See Codification note set out under section 1811 of this title.