---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 2272"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "2272"
heading: "Notice of service"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/2272"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Farm Credit System"
  - "Subchapter V — Farm Credit Administration Organization"
  - "Part C — Enforcement Powers of Farm Credit Administration"
---

# §2272. Notice of service


Any service required or authorized to be made by the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration under this section may be made by registered mail, or in such other manner reasonably calculated to give actual notice as the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration may by regulation or otherwise provide. Any such service by mail is complete upon mailing. Copies of any notice or order served by the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration on any association or any [director](/usc/12/2279bb.md?p=3) or officer thereof or other [person](/usc/12/5481.md?p=19) participating in the conduct of its affairs, under the provisions of this part, shall also be sent to the supervisory bank.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–181, title V, § 5.36, as added Pub. L. 99–205, title II, § 204, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1702.)

## 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.