---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 3419"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "3419"
heading: "Suspension of limitations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/3419"
units:
  - "Chapter 35 — Right to Financial Privacy"
---

# §3419. Suspension of limitations


If any individual files a motion or application under this chapter which has the effect of delaying the access of a [Government authority](/usc/12/3401.md?p=3) to [financial records](/usc/12/3401.md?p=2) pertaining to such individual, any applicable statute of limitations shall be deemed to be tolled for the period extending from the date such motion or application was filed until the date upon which the motion or application is decided.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–630, title XI, § 1119, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3709.)

## 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.