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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1906. Disclosure of information from a bank examination report
Whoever, being an examiner, public or private, or a General
Accounting Office employee with access to bank examination report
information under section 714 of title 31, discloses the names of
borrowers or the collateral for loans of any member bank of the
Federal Reserve System, any bank insured by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, any branch or agency of a foreign bank (as
such terms are defined in paragraphs (1) and (3) of section 1(b) of
the International Banking Act of 1978), or any organization
operating under section 25 or section 25(a) (!1) of the Federal
Reserve Act, examined by him or subject to General Accounting
Office audit under section 714 of title 31 to other than the proper
officers of such bank, branch, agency, or organization, without
first having obtained the express permission in writing from the
Comptroller of the Currency as to a national bank or a Federal
branch or Federal agency (as such terms are defined in paragraphs
(5) and (6) of section 1(b) of the International Banking Act of
1978), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as to a
State member bank, an uninsured State branch or State agency (as
such terms are defined in paragraphs (11) and (12) of section 1(b)
of the International Banking Act of 1978), or an organization
operating under section 25 or section 25(a) (!1) of the Federal
Reserve Act, or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as to any
other insured bank, including any insured branch (as defined in
section 3(s) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act),,(!2) or from
the board of directors of such bank or organization, except when
ordered to do so by a court of competent jurisdiction, or by
direction of the Congress of the United States, or either House
thereof, or any committee of Congress or either House duly
authorized or as authorized by section 714 of title 31 shall be
fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year or
both.
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