[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 12, Volume 6]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 12CFR614.4125]



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                       TITLE 12--BANKS AND BANKING

 

                 CHAPTER VI--FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION

 

PART 614_LOAN POLICIES AND OPERATIONS--Table of Contents

 

             Subpart C_Bank/Association Lending Relationship

 

Sec. 614.4125  Funding and discount relationships between Farm Credit 

Banks or agricultural credit banks and direct lender associations.



    (a) A Farm Credit Bank or agricultural credit bank shall not advance 

funds to, or discount loans for, any direct lender association except 

pursuant to a general financing agreement. Each general financing 

agreement must require that the amount of financing available to a 

direct lender association not be based on loans that are ineligible 

under the Act and the regulations in this chapter. If financing under a 

general financing agreement is based on a loan that FCA determines is 

ineligible under the Act and the regulations in this chapter, then the 

amount of financing available must be recalculated without that 

ineligible loan.

    (b) The Farm Credit Bank or agricultural credit bank shall deliver a 

copy of the executed general financing agreement and all related 

documents, such as a promissory note or security agreement, and all 

amendments of any of these documents, within 10 business days after any 

such document or amendment is executed, to the Chief Examiner, Farm 

Credit Administration, or to the Farm Credit Administration office that 

the Chief Examiner designates.

    (c) The general financing agreement shall address only those matters 

that are reasonably related to the debtor/creditor relationship between 

the Farm Credit Bank or agricultural credit bank and the direct lender 

association.

    (d) The total credit extended to a direct lender association, 

through direct loan or discounts, shall be consistent with the Farm 

Credit Bank's or agricultural credit bank's lending policies and loan 

underwriting standards and the creditworthiness of the direct lender 

association. The general financing agreement or promissory note shall 

establish a maximum credit limit determined by objective standards as 

established by the Farm Credit Bank or agricultural credit bank.

    (e) A Farm Credit Bank or agricultural credit bank that provides 

notice to a direct lender association that it is in material default of 

any covenant, term, or condition of the general financing agreement, 

promissory note, security agreement, or other related documents 

simultaneously shall provide written notification to the Chief Examiner, 

Farm Credit Administration, or to the Farm Credit Administration office 

that the Chief Examiner designates and the Director, Risk Management, 

Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation.

    (f) A direct lender association shall provide written notification 

to the Chief Examiner, Farm Credit Administration, or to the Farm Credit 

Administration office that the Chief Examiner designates, and the 

Director, Risk Management, Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation 

immediately upon receipt of a notice that it is in material default 

under any general financing agreement, loan agreement, promissory note, 

security agreement, or other related documents with a Farm Credit Bank, 

agricultural credit bank or non-Farm Credit institution.

    (g) A Farm Credit Bank or agricultural credit bank shall obtain 

prior written consent of the Farm Credit Administration before it takes 

any action that leads to or could lead to the liquidation of a direct 

lender association.

    (h) No direct lender association shall obtain financing from any 

party unless the parties agree to the requirements of this paragraph. No 

Farm Credit Bank, agricultural credit bank, or other party shall 

petition any Federal or State court to appoint a conservator, receiver, 

liquidation agent, or other administrator to manage the affairs of or 

liquidate a direct lender association.



[63 FR 5724, Feb. 4, 1998, as amended at 69 FR 43514, July 21, 2004]