---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 21a"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "21a"
heading: "Amendment of articles of association"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/21a"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — National Banks"
  - "Subchapter I — Organization and General Provisions"
---

# §21a. Amendment of articles of association


Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, or by the articles of [association](/usc/12/1828.md?p=s-4-E-i) of the particular [national banking association](/usc/12/221a.md?p=a), the articles of [association](/usc/12/1828.md?p=s-4-E-i) of a [national banking association](/usc/12/221a.md?p=a) may be amended with respect to any lawful matter, and any action requiring the approval of the stockholders of such [association](/usc/12/1828.md?p=s-4-E-i) may be had by the approving vote of the holders of a majority of the voting shares of the stock of the [association](/usc/12/1828.md?p=s-4-E-i) obtained at a meeting of the stockholders called and held pursuant to notice given by mail at least ten days prior to the meeting or pursuant to a waiver of such notice given by all stockholders entitled to receive notice of such meeting. A certified copy of every amendment to the articles of [association](/usc/12/1828.md?p=s-4-E-i) adopted by the shareholders of a [national banking association](/usc/12/221a.md?p=a) shall be forwarded to the Comptroller of the Currency, to be filed and preserved in his [office](/usc/12/2279bb.md?p=4).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–230, § 13, Sept. 8, 1959, 73 Stat. 458.)