---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 2144"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "2144"
heading: "Consolidation of functions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/2144"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Farm Credit System"
  - "Subchapter III — Banks for Cooperatives"
  - "Part B — National Banks for Cooperatives"
---

# §2144. Consolidation of functions


Subject to [section 2143 of this title](/usc/12/2143.md), to the greatest extent practicable, the functions of the consolidated bank shall be consolidated in the central [office](/usc/12/2279bb.md?p=4) of the bank.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–181, title III, § 3.23, as added Pub. L. 100–233, title IV, § 415(2), Jan. 6, 1988, 101 Stat. 1644.)