---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 2276"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "2276"
heading: "Access to and examination by Comptroller General of books, documents, etc., of farm credit system banks and institutions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/2276"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Farm Credit System"
  - "Subchapter V — Farm Credit Administration Organization"
  - "Part D — Miscellaneous"
---

# §2276. Access to and examination by Comptroller General of books, documents, etc., of farm credit system banks and institutions


On and after December 19, 1985, the Comptroller General or his duly authorized representatives shall have access to and the right to examine all books, documents, papers, records, or other recorded information within the possession or control of the Federal land banks and Federal land bank associations, Federal intermediate [credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) banks and production [credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) associations and banks for cooperatives.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–190, § 107, Dec. 19, 1985, 99 Stat. 1316.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Farm Credit Act of 1971 which comprises this chapter.