---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 216d"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "216d"
heading: "Severability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/216d"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — National Banks"
  - "Subchapter XVII — Disposition of Unclaimed Property Recovered from Closed National Banks"
---

# §216d. Severability


If any provision of this subchapter or the application of such provision to any [person](/usc/12/5481.md?p=19) or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this subchapter and the application of such provision to other [persons](/usc/12/5481.md?p=19) or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–221, title VII, § 735, as added Pub. L. 97–320, title IV, § 408, Oct. 15, 1982, 96 Stat. 1515.)