---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 2255"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "2255"
heading: "Conditions of other banks and lending institutions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/2255"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Farm Credit System"
  - "Subchapter V — Farm Credit Administration Organization"
  - "Part B — Farm Credit Administration Organization"
---

# §2255. Conditions of other banks and lending institutions


The Comptroller of the Currency is authorized and directed, upon request of the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration to furnish for confidential use of an [institution](/usc/12/2271.md?p=3) of the System such reports, records, and other information as he may have available relating to the financial condition of national banks through, for, or with which such [institution](/usc/12/2271.md?p=3) of the System has made or contemplates making discounts or loans and to make such further examination, as may be agreed, of organizations through, for, or with which such [institution](/usc/12/2271.md?p=3) of the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) System has made or contemplates making discounts or loans.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–181, title V, § 5.20, formerly § 5.21, Dec. 10, 1971, 85 Stat. 623; renumbered § 5.20, Pub. L. 99–205, title II, § 203(b), Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1694.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 5.20 of Pub. L. 92–181 was renumbered section 5.19 and is classified to section 2254 of this title.