---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 3"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "3"
heading: "Oath of Comptroller"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/3"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — The Comptroller of the Currency"
---

# §3. Oath of Comptroller


The Comptroller of the Currency shall, within fifteen days from the time of notice of his appointment, take and subscribe the oath of office.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 326; Pub. L. 86–251, § 1(d), Sept. 9, 1959, 73 Stat. 488; Pub. L. 92–310, title II, § 223(a), June 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 206.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 326 derived from act June 3, 1864, ch. 106, § 1, 13 Stat. 99, which was the National Bank Act. See section 38 of this title.

### Amendments

1972—Pub. L. 92–310 struck out provisions which required the Comptroller to give a bond in the sum of $250,000.

1959—Pub. L. 86–251 increased the surety bond requirement from $100,000 to $250,000.