Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 18 : Section 1906


   
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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