---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 225"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "225"
heading: "Federal reserve banks; title"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/225"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Federal Reserve System"
  - "Subchapter I — Definitions, Organization, and General Provisions Affecting System"
---

# §225. Federal reserve banks; title


A Federal [reserve bank](/usc/12/221a.md?p=a) shall include in its title the name of the city in which it is situated, as “Federal [Reserve Bank](/usc/12/221a.md?p=a) of Chicago.”


## Source credit

(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 2 (part), 38 Stat. 252.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is based on part of the second par. of section 2 of act Dec. 23, 1913. The rest of the second par. was not included in the Code. For classification of other pars. of section 2 of this Act, see Codification note set out under section 222 of this title.