---
kind: "unit"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
key: "ch3/schI"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter I"
heading: "Definitions, Organization, and General Provisions Affecting System"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/ch3-schI"
sections_count: 11
---

# Subchapter I — Definitions, Organization, and General Provisions Affecting System

Title 12 — Banks and Banking › Chapter 3 — Federal Reserve System

## Sections

- [§221. Definitions](/usc/12/221.md)
- [§221a. Additional definitions](/usc/12/221a.md)
- [§222. Federal reserve districts; membership of national banks](/usc/12/222.md)
- [§223. Number of Federal reserve cities in district](/usc/12/223.md)
- [§224. Status of reserve cities under former statutes](/usc/12/224.md)
- [§225. Federal reserve banks; title](/usc/12/225.md)
- [§225a. Maintenance of long run growth of monetary and credit aggregates](/usc/12/225a.md)
- [§225b. Appearances before and reports to the Congress](/usc/12/225b.md)
- [§226. “Federal Reserve Act”](/usc/12/226.md)
- [§227. “Banking Act of 1933”](/usc/12/227.md)
- [§228. “Banking Act of 1935”](/usc/12/228.md)