---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 3416"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "3416"
heading: "Jurisdiction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/3416"
units:
  - "Chapter 35 — Right to Financial Privacy"
---

# §3416. Jurisdiction


An action to enforce any provision of this chapter may be brought in any appropriate United States district court without regard to the amount in controversy within three years from the date on which the violation occurs or the date of discovery of such violation, whichever is later.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–630, title XI, § 1116, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3708.)

## 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.