---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 2200"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "2200"
heading: "Access to documents and information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/2200"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Farm Credit System"
  - "Subchapter IV — Provisions Applicable to Two or More Classes of Institutions of the System"
  - "Part C — Rights of Borrowers; Loan Restructuring"
---

# §2200. Access to documents and information


In accordance with regulations of the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration, qualified lenders shall provide their borrowers, at the time of execution of loans, copies of all documents signed by the borrower and at any time thereafter, on a borrower’s request, copies of all documents signed or delivered by the borrower and at any time, on request, a copy of the [institution](/usc/12/2271.md?p=3)’s articles of incorporation or charter and bylaws and copies of each appraisal of the borrower’s assets made or used by the qualified lender.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–181, title IV, § 4.13A, as added Pub. L. 99–205, title III, § 301(b), Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1707; amended Pub. L. 100–233, title I, § 104, Jan. 6, 1988, 101 Stat. 1579.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1988—Pub. L. 100–233 substituted “qualified lenders” for “System institutions” and inserted “and copies of each appraisal of the borrower’s assets made or used by the qualified lender” before period at end.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective thirty days after Dec. 23, 1985, see section 401 of Pub. L. 99–205, set out as an Effective Date of 1985 Amendment note under section 2001 of this title.