---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 2149"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "2149"
heading: "Lending limits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/2149"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Farm Credit System"
  - "Subchapter III — Banks for Cooperatives"
  - "Part B — National Banks for Cooperatives"
---

# §2149. Lending limits


The Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration may not establish lending limits for the consolidated bank with respect to any loans or borrowers that are more restrictive than the combined lending limits that were previously established by the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration for the constituent banks described in section 413(b) of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 ([12 U.S.C. 2121](/usc/12/2121.md) note; Public Law 100–233) with respect to such loans or borrowers.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–181, title III, § 3.28, as added Pub. L. 100–233, title IV, § 415(2), Jan. 6, 1988, 101 Stat. 1644; amended Pub. L. 115–334, title V, § 5411(15), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4680.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–334 substituted “the constituent banks described in section 413(b) of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 (12 U.S.C. 2121 note; Public Law 100–233)” for “a district bank for cooperatives and the Central Bank for Cooperatives”.