---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 213"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "213"
heading: "Acceptance of loan or gratuity by financial institution examiner"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/213"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 11 — Bribery, Graft, and Conflicts of Interest"
---

# §213. Acceptance of loan or gratuity by financial institution examiner

- (a) **In General.—** [Whoever](/usc/18/921.md?p=a-1), being an examiner or assistant examiner, accepts a loan or gratuity from any bank, branch, agency, [organization](/usc/18/2256.md?p=4), corporation, association, or institution examined by the examiner or from any [person](/usc/18/229F.md?p=5) connected with it, shall—
  - (1) be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both;
  - (2) may be fined a further sum equal to the money so loaned or gratuity given; and
  - (3) shall be disqualified from holding office as an examiner.
- (b) **Definitions.—** In this section, the terms “examiner”, “Federal financial institution regulatory agency”, “financial institution”, and “loan” have the same meanings as in section 212.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 108–198, § 2(a), Dec. 19, 2003, 117 Stat. 2900.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 213, acts June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 695, § 213, formerly § 218; Pub. L. 85–699, title VII, § 701(b), Aug. 21, 1958, 72 Stat. 698; renumbered § 213, Pub. L. 87–849, § 1(d), Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1125; Pub. L. 101–73, title IX, § 962(a)(2), Aug. 9, 1989, 103 Stat. 502; Pub. L. 101–647, title XXV, § 2597(c), Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4909; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §§ 330004(2), 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2141, 2147, related to acceptance of loan or gratuity by bank examiner, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 108–198, § 2(a), Dec. 19, 2003, 117 Stat. 2899.

Another prior section 213, act June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 693, related to the acceptance or demand of a bribe by a customs officer or employee, prior to the general amendment to this chapter by Pub. L. 87–849 and is substantially covered by revised section 201.