12 U.S.C. § 3
Section 3 · Oath of Comptroller
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case King v. Alaska State Housing Authority (1973)
Most recently applied in N.J. Carpenters Health Fund v. NovaStar Mortgage, Inc. (March 2022)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The Comptroller of the Currency shall, within fifteen days from the time of notice of his appointment, take and subscribe the oath of office.
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Codification
R.S. §326 derived from act June 3, 1864, ch. 106, §1, 13 Stat. 99, which was the National Bank Act. See section 38 of this title.
Amendments
1972—Pub. L. 92–310 struck out provisions which required the Comptroller to give a bond in the sum of $250,000.
1959—Pub. L. 86–251 increased the surety bond requirement from $100,000 to $250,000.
Cross References
Oath of office, see Const. Art. VI, cl. 3; section 3331 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.