---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 223"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "223"
heading: "Number of Federal reserve cities in district"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/223"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Federal Reserve System"
  - "Subchapter I — Definitions, Organization, and General Provisions Affecting System"
---

# §223. Number of Federal reserve cities in district


A Federal reserve [district](/usc/12/221a.md?p=a) shall contain only one Federal reserve city.


## Source credit

(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 2 (part), 38 Stat. 251.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is based on part of the first par. of section 2 of act Dec. 23, 1913. Some of the other provisions of the first par. are classified to section 222 of this title, and some were not included in the Code. For classification of other pars. of section 2 of this Act, see Codification note under section 222 of this title.