---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 210"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "210"
heading: "Governmental powers unimpaired"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/210"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — National Banks"
  - "Subchapter XIV — Bank Conservation Act"
---

# §210. Governmental powers unimpaired


Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to impair in any manner any powers of the President, the [Secretary](/usc/12/1715z–22a.md?p=4) of the Treasury, the Comptroller of the Currency, or the [Board](/usc/12/1861.md?p=b-3) of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.


## Source credit

(Mar. 9, 1933, ch. 1, title II, § 210, 48 Stat. 5; Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 614, title II, § 203(a), 49 Stat. 704.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Act Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 614, title II, § 203(a), 49 Stat. 704, changed the name of the Federal Reserve Board to Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

### Executive Documents

### Exception as to Transfer of Functions

Functions vested by any provision of law in Comptroller of the Currency, referred to in this section, not included in transfer of functions to Secretary of the Treasury, see note set out under section 1 of this title.