---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 2256"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "2256"
heading: "Consent to the availability of reports and to examinations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/2256"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Farm Credit System"
  - "Subchapter V — Farm Credit Administration Organization"
  - "Part B — Farm Credit Administration Organization"
---

# §2256. Consent to the availability of reports and to examinations


Any organization other than [State](/usc/12/2277a.md?p=5) banks, trust companies, and [savings associations](/usc/12/1861.md?p=b-5) shall, as a condition precedent to securing discount privileges with a bank of the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) System, file with such bank its written consent to examination by farm [credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) examiners as may be directed by the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration; and [State](/usc/12/2277a.md?p=5) banks, trust companies, and [savings associations](/usc/12/1861.md?p=b-5) may be required in like manner to file a written consent that reports of their examination by constituted [State](/usc/12/2277a.md?p=5) authorities may be furnished by such authorities upon the request of the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–181, title V, § 5.21, formerly § 5.22, Dec. 10, 1971, 85 Stat. 623; renumbered § 5.21, Pub. L. 99–205, title II, § 203(b), Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1694.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 5.21 of Pub. L. 92–181 was renumbered section 5.20 and is classified to section 2255 of this title.