{"identifier":"/us/usc/t12/s5451","title":12,"num":"\u00a7\u202f5451.","heading":"Branching","text":"\u00a7\u202f5451.\nBranching\nNotwithstanding the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (\n(1) continue to operate any branch or agency that the savings association operated immediately before the savings association became a bank; and\n(2) establish, acquire, and operate additional branches and agencies at any location within any State in which the savings association operated a branch immediately before the savings association became a bank, if the law of the State in which the branch is located, or is to be located, would permit establishment of the branch if the bank were a State bank chartered by such State.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t12/s5451.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t12/s5451","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f5451."},{"t":"heading","text":"Branching","tail":"\n"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"Notwithstanding the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"12 U.S.C. 1811","href":"/us/usc/t12/s1811","tail":" et seq.), the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 ("},{"t":"ref","text":"12 U.S.C. 1841","href":"/us/usc/t12/s1841","tail":" et seq.), or any other provision of Federal or State law, a savings association that becomes a bank may\u2014"}]},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t12/s5451/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" continue to operate any branch or agency that the savings association operated immediately before the savings association became a bank; and","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t12/s5451/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" establish, acquire, and operate additional branches and agencies at any location within any State in which the savings association operated a branch immediately before the savings association became a bank, if the law of the State in which the branch is located, or is to be located, would permit establishment of the branch if the bank were a State bank chartered by such State.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}