---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 5394"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "5394"
heading: "Prohibition on taxpayer funding"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/5394"
units:
  - "Chapter 53 — Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection"
  - "Subchapter II — Orderly Liquidation Authority"
---

# §5394. Prohibition on taxpayer funding

- (a) **Liquidation required—** All [financial companies](/usc/12/5341.md?p=2) put into receivership under this subchapter shall be liquidated. No taxpayer [funds](/usc/12/5381.md?p=a-12) shall be used to prevent the liquidation of any [financial company](/usc/12/5341.md?p=2) under this subchapter.
- (b) **Recovery of funds—** All [funds](/usc/12/5381.md?p=a-12) expended in the liquidation of a [financial company](/usc/12/5341.md?p=2) under this subchapter shall be recovered from the disposition of assets of such [financial company](/usc/12/5341.md?p=2), or shall be the responsibility of the financial sector, through assessments.
- (c) **No losses to taxpayers—** Taxpayers shall bear no losses from the exercise of any authority under this subchapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–203, title II, § 214, July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 1518.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title II of Pub. L. 111–203, July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 1442, which is classified principally to this subchapter. For complete classification of title II to the Code, see Tables.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 1 day after July 21, 2010, except as otherwise provided, see section 4 of Pub. L. 111–203, set out as a note under section 5301 of this title.