--- kind: "section" citation: "12 U.S.C. § 2266" title: "12" title_heading: "Banks and Banking" number: "2266" heading: "Hearings and judicial review" release: "119-102" date: "2026-07-12" url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/2266" units: - "Chapter 23 — Farm Credit System" - "Subchapter V — Farm Credit Administration Organization" - "Part C — Enforcement Powers of Farm Credit Administration" --- # §2266. Hearings and judicial review - (a) **Venue; closed hearings; decisions and findings of fact; orders; modification or other action by Farm Credit Administration; judicial review—** Any hearing provided for in this part (other than the hearing provided for in [section 2265 of this title](/usc/12/2265.md)) shall be held in the Federal judicial district or in the territory in which the home [office](/usc/12/2279bb.md?p=4) of the [institution](/usc/12/2271.md?p=3) is located unless the party afforded the hearing consents to another place, and shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of chapter 5 of title 5. Such hearing shall be private, unless the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration, in its discretion, after fully considering the views of the party afforded the hearing, determines that a public hearing is necessary to protect the public interest. After such hearing, and within ninety days after the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration has notified the parties that the case has been submitted to it for final decision, it shall render its decision (which shall include findings of fact upon which its decision is predicated) and shall issue and serve upon each party to the proceeding an order or orders consistent with the provisions of this part. Judicial review of any such order shall be exclusively as provided in this section. Unless a petition for review is timely filed in a court of appeals of the United States, as hereinafter provided in [subsection (b)](#b), and thereafter until the record in the proceeding has been filed as so provided, the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration may at any time, upon such notice and in such manner as it shall deem proper, modify, terminate, or set aside any such order. Upon such filing of the record, the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration may modify, terminate, or set aside any such order with permission of the court. - (b) **Judicial review; commencement of proceedings; filing of petition and record; exclusive jurisdiction; finality of judgment and decree—** Any party to the proceeding, or any [person](/usc/12/5481.md?p=19) required by an order issued under this part to cease and desist from any of the [violations](/usc/12/2271.md?p=2) or practices stated therein, may obtain a review of any order served under [subsection (a)](#a) (other than an order issued with the consent of the [System institution](/usc/12/2271.md?p=3) or the [director](/usc/12/2279bb.md?p=3) or officer or other [person](/usc/12/5481.md?p=19) concerned, or an order issued under [section 2265 of this title](/usc/12/2265.md)) by the filing in the court of appeals of the United States for the circuit in which the home [office](/usc/12/2279bb.md?p=4) of the [institution](/usc/12/2271.md?p=3) is located, or in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, within thirty days after the date of service of such order, a written petition praying that the order of the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration be modified, terminated, or set aside. A copy of such petition shall be forthwith transmitted by the clerk of the court to the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration, and thereupon the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration shall file in the court the record in the proceeding, as provided in [section 2112 of title 28](/usc/28/2112.md). Upon the filing of such petition, such court shall have jurisdiction, which upon the filing of the record shall except as provided in the last sentence of [subsection (a)](#a) be exclusive, to affirm, modify, terminate, or set aside, in whole or in part, the order of the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration. Review of such proceedings shall be had as provided in chapter 7 of title 5. The judgment and decree of the court shall be final, except that the same shall be subject to review by the Supreme Court upon certiorari, as provided in [section 1254 of title 28](/usc/28/1254.md). - (c) **Proceedings operating as stays of orders—** The commencement of proceedings for judicial review under [subsection (b)](#b) shall not, unless specifically ordered by the court, operate as a stay of any order issued by the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration. ## Source credit (Pub. L. 92–181, title V, § 5.30, as added Pub. L. 99–205, title II, § 204, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1699; amended Pub. L. 100–233, title VIII, § 805(cc), Jan. 6, 1988, 101 Stat. 1717.) ## Notes ### Editorial Notes ### Prior Provisions A prior section 5.30 of Pub. L. 92–181 was renumbered section 5.44 and transferred from section 2260 to section 2275 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 115–334, title V, § 5411(36), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4683. ### Amendments 1988—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–233 substituted “this section” for “this subsection (g)”. ### 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.