---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 251"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "251"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title II, § 2224(a), Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–415"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/251"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Federal Reserve System"
  - "Subchapter II — Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System"
---

# [§251. Repealed. Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title II, § 2224(a), Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–415 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, Pub. L. 102–242, title IV, § 477, Dec. 19, 1991, 105 Stat. 2387; Pub. L. 102–550, title XVI, § 1606(i)(3), Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 4089, required Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System to collect and publish information on availability of credit to small businesses.