---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 2270"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "2270"
heading: "Replacement of suspended or removed directors"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/2270"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Farm Credit System"
  - "Subchapter V — Farm Credit Administration Organization"
  - "Part C — Enforcement Powers of Farm Credit Administration"
---

# §2270. Replacement of suspended or removed directors


If at any time, because of the suspension or removal of one or more [directors](/usc/12/2279bb.md?p=3) pursuant to section [2264](/usc/12/2264.md) or [2265](/usc/12/2265.md) of this title, there shall be on the [board of directors](/usc/12/2277a.md?p=1) of a [System institution](/usc/12/2271.md?p=3) less than a quorum of [directors](/usc/12/2279bb.md?p=3) not so suspended, the Chairman shall appoint [persons](/usc/12/5481.md?p=19) to serve temporarily as [directors](/usc/12/2279bb.md?p=3) in their place and stead so as to establish a quorum until such time as those who have been removed are reinstated or their respective successors are duly elected and take [office](/usc/12/2279bb.md?p=4).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–181, title V, § 5.34, 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.