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The
Office of General Counsel (OGC) provides NCUA with legal advice and
opinions on matters of law. It also provides the public with interpretations
of the Federal Credit Union Act, NCUA regulations, and other NCUA
Board directives. This section of the website contains legal opinions
issued to the public by OGC since 1991, organized by year. You can
identify opinion letters by their individually assigned numbers and
subject headings. You can also use the website’s search function
to retrieve opinion letters by topic. A few of the letters are outdated
or have been superseded by subsequent opinions and changes in the
law but are included because they may be helpful for historical research.
This
website offers many resources for credit unions and the public when
they have questions about the Federal Credit Union Act and NCUA Rules and Regulations, such as NCUA Interpretive Rulings and Policy Statements, Letters to Credit Unions, Regulatory Alerts and OGC Opinions. Agency decisions on appeals under the Freedom of Information Act are located in the section of this website devoted to FOIA. This website also
contains OGC opinions on nonstandard bylaw amendments in the Federal Credit Union Bylaws section.
If
you have a legal question that is not addressed in any of the guidance
listed above, you may request assistance from OGC. You may call
OGC at (703) 518-6540 or send an e-mail to ogcmail@ncua.gov. If you send an e-mail, please include a daytime telephone number. You may
also request a written legal opinion from OGC. OGC will respond
to your request in writing if your request involves a new or substantial
question of law or policy and you have provided sufficient information
and analysis regarding the issue you want OGC to address.
If your question involves a consumer complaint, please
call the Regional Office
in the region where the credit union is located.
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