---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 2269"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "2269"
heading: "Further penalties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/2269"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Farm Credit System"
  - "Subchapter V — Farm Credit Administration Organization"
  - "Part C — Enforcement Powers of Farm Credit Administration"
---

# §2269. Further penalties


Any [director](/usc/12/2279bb.md?p=3) or officer, or former [director](/usc/12/2279bb.md?p=3) or officer of a [System institution](/usc/12/2271.md?p=3), or any other [person](/usc/12/5481.md?p=19), against whom there is outstanding and effective any notice or order (which is an [order which has become final](/usc/12/2271.md?p=1)) served upon such [director](/usc/12/2279bb.md?p=3), officer, or other [person](/usc/12/5481.md?p=19) under section [2264](/usc/12/2264.md) or [2265](/usc/12/2265.md) of this title, and who (1) participates in any manner in the conduct of the affairs of the [institution](/usc/12/2271.md?p=3) involved, or directly or indirectly solicits or procures, or transfers or attempts to transfer, or votes or attempts to vote, any proxies, consents, or authorizations in respect of any voting rights in such [institution](/usc/12/2271.md?p=3), or (2) without the prior written approval of the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration, votes for a [director](/usc/12/2279bb.md?p=3), serves or acts as a [director](/usc/12/2279bb.md?p=3), officer, or employee of any [System institution](/usc/12/2271.md?p=3), shall upon conviction be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–181, title V, § 5.33, as added Pub. L. 99–205, title II, § 204, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1701.)

## Notes

### 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.