---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 3308"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "3308"
heading: "Access to books, accounts, records, etc., by Council"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/3308"
units:
  - "Chapter 34 — Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council"
---

# §3308. Access to books, accounts, records, etc., by Council


For the purpose of carrying out this chapter, the [Council](/usc/12/3302.md?p=2) shall have access to all books, accounts, records, reports, files, memorandums, papers, things, and property belonging to or in use by [Federal financial institutions regulatory agencies](/usc/12/3302.md?p=1), including reports of examination of [financial institutions](/usc/12/3302.md?p=3) or their holding companies from whatever source, together with workpapers and correspondence files related to such reports, whether or not a part of the report, and all without any deletions.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–630, title X, § 1009, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3696.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective upon the expiration of 120 days after Nov. 10, 1978, see section 2101 of Pub. L. 95–630, set out as a note under section 375b of this title.