---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 3045"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "3045"
heading: "Investigations and surveys respecting new services, etc., by cooperative not-for-profit organizations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/3045"
units:
  - "Chapter 31 — National Consumer Cooperative Bank"
  - "Subchapter II — Office of Self-Help Development and Technical Assistance"
---

# §3045. Investigations and surveys respecting new services, etc., by cooperative not-for-profit organizations


The Office may undertake investigations of new types of services which can more effectively be provided through cooperative not-for-profit organizations and make surveys of areas where the increased use of such organizations will contribute to the economic well-being of the community.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–351, title II, § 205, Aug. 20, 1978, 92 Stat. 512.)