---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 42"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "42"
heading: "Territorial application"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/42"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — National Banks"
  - "Subchapter I — Organization and General Provisions"
---

# §42. Territorial application


The provisions of all Acts of Congress relating to national banks shall apply in the several [States](/usc/12/95.md?p=b-2), the District of Columbia, the several Territories and possessions of the United States, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–230, § 14, Sept. 8, 1959, 73 Stat. 458.)