---
kind: "unit"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
key: "ch2/schII"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter II"
heading: "Capital, Stock, and Stockholders"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/ch2-schII"
sections_count: 22
---

# Subchapter II — Capital, Stock, and Stockholders

Title 12 — Banks and Banking › Chapter 2 — National Banks

## Sections

- [§51. Repealed.](/usc/12/51.md)
- [§51a. Preferred stock; issuance authorized](/usc/12/51a.md)
- [§51b. Dividends, voting, and retirement of preferred stock; individual liability](/usc/12/51b.md)
- [§51b–1. Consideration of preferred stock in determining impairment of capital; dividends; retirement](/usc/12/51b-1.md)
- [§51c. “Common stock”, “capital”, and “capital stock” defined](/usc/12/51c.md)
- [§51d...51f. Repealed.](/usc/12/51d...51f.md)
- [§52. Par value and incidents of stock; transfer of shares](/usc/12/52.md)
- [§53. When capital stock paid in](/usc/12/53.md)
- [§54. Repealed.](/usc/12/54.md)
- [§55. Enforcing payment of deficiency in capital stock; assessments; liquidation; receivership](/usc/12/55.md)
- [§56. Prohibition on withdrawal of capital; unearned dividends](/usc/12/56.md)
- [§57. Increase of capital by provision in articles of association](/usc/12/57.md)
- [§58. Repealed.](/usc/12/58.md)
- [§59. Reduction of capital](/usc/12/59.md)
- [§60. National bank dividends](/usc/12/60.md)
- [§61. Shareholders’ voting rights; cumulative and distributive voting; preferred stock; trust shares; proxies, liability restrictions; percentage requirement exclusion of trust shares](/usc/12/61.md)
- [§62. List of shareholders](/usc/12/62.md)
- [§64. Repealed.](/usc/12/64.md)
- [§64a. Individual liability of shareholders; limitation on liability](/usc/12/64a.md)
- [§65. Repealed.](/usc/12/65.md)
- [§66. Personal liability of representatives of stockholders](/usc/12/66.md)
- [§67. Individual liability of shareholders; compromises; authority of receiver](/usc/12/67.md)