---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 2219"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "2219"
heading: "Limitation on separate sale"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/2219"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Farm Credit System"
  - "Subchapter IV — Provisions Applicable to Two or More Classes of Institutions of the System"
  - "Part G — Miscellaneous"
---

# §2219. Limitation on separate sale


If real property is acquired by any [institution](/usc/12/2271.md?p=3) of the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) System through foreclosure, no [institution](/usc/12/2271.md?p=3) of the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) System shall sell the surface rights to that real property to any [person](/usc/12/5481.md?p=19) unless the [institution](/usc/12/2271.md?p=3) also sells all mineral rights to that real property to that [person](/usc/12/5481.md?p=19).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–181, title IV, § 4.35, as added Pub. L. 99–205, title III, § 306, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1709.)

## Notes

### 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.