---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 2149"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "2149"
heading: "Lending limits"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/2149"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Farm Credit System"
  - "Subchapter III — Banks for Cooperatives"
  - "Part B — National Banks for Cooperatives"
---

# §2149. Lending limits


The Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration may not establish lending limits for the consolidated [bank](/usc/12/1426a.md?p=g-1) with respect to any loans or borrowers that are more restrictive than the combined lending limits that were previously established by the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration for the constituent [banks](/usc/12/221a.md?p=a) described in section 413(b) of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 ([12 U.S.C. 2121](/usc/12/2121.md) note; Public Law 100–233) with respect to such loans or borrowers.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–181, title III, § 3.28, as added Pub. L. 100–233, title IV, § 415(2), Jan. 6, 1988, 101 Stat. 1644; amended Pub. L. 115–334, title V, § 5411(15), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4680.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–334 substituted “the constituent banks described in section 413(b) of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 (12 U.S.C. 2121 note; Public Law 100–233)” for “a district bank for cooperatives and the Central Bank for Cooperatives”.