Final rule--amendment to Regulation CC. (Legal Developments).The Board of Governors is amending 12 C.F.R. Part 229, its Regulation CC (Availability of Funds and Collection of Checks). The Board is publishing a final amendment to appendix A of Regulation CC that updates the routing numbers for Federal Reserve Banks and Federal Home Loan Banks Federal Home Loan Banks The institutions that regulate and lend to savings and loan associations. The Federal Home Loan Banks play a role analogous to that played by the Federal Reserve Banks vis-à-vis member commercial banks. . Banks generally must provide next-day or second-day availability for checks drawn on these routing numbers. This amendment also reorganizes and clarifies existing information in the introductory material preceding the routing number list. The Board also is providing information about a series of future amendments that the Board will make to appendix A to reflect the restructuring of check processing functions within the Federal Reserve System. These amendments collectively will reduce the number of check processing regions listed in appendix A from 44 to 32, thereby resulting in more checks in the affected regions being local to one another. These amendments will take effect on a staggered basis beginning in the second half of 2003 and ending in late 2004. The Board will publish each amendment in the Federal Register at least 60 days before the effective date. Effective June 27, 2003, 12 C.F.R. Part 229 is amended as follows: Part 229--Availability of Funds and Collection of Checks (Regulation CC) 1. The authority citation for Part 229 continues to read as follows: Authority: 12 U.S.C. [section] 4001 et seq et seq. (et seek) n. abbreviation for the Latin phrase et sequentes meaning "and the following." It is commonly used by lawyers to include numbered lists, pages or sections after the first number is stated, as in "the rules of the road are found in Vehicle Code . 2. Appendix A to Part 229 is amended as follows: a. Introductory paragraphs A and B are revised and a new paragraph C is added. b. The heading and text of the Federal Reserve Offices routing list are revised. c. The Federal Home Loan Bank routing number list is revised. The additions and revisions read as follows: Appendix A to Part 229--Routing Number Guide to Next-Day Availability Checks and Local Checks. A. Each bank is assigned a routing number by Thomson Financial Thomson Financial A major provider of information, analytical tools, and consulting services to the financial community. The firm, a division of Thomson Corporation, is best known to investors for its First Call segment, which publishes consensus earnings Publishing Inc., as agent for the American Bankers Association The American Bankers Association (ABA) is comprised of banks and other financial institutions. It seeks to promote the strength and profitability of the banking industry by Lobbying federal and state governments, building industry consensus on key issues, and providing products and . The routing number takes two forms: a fractional fractional size expressed as a relative part of a unit. fractional catabolic rate the percentage of an available pool of body component, e.g. protein, iron, which is replaced, transferred or lost per unit of time. form and a nine-digit form. A paying bank generally is identified on the face of a check by its routing number in both the fractional form (which generally appears in the upper right-hand corner of the check) and the nine-digit form (which is printed in magnetic ink A magnetically detectable ink used to print the MICR characters that encode account numbers on bank checks. along the bottom of the check). Where a check is payable by one bank but payable through another bank, the routing number appearing on the check is that of the payable-through bank, not the payor bank. B. The first four digits of the nine-digit routing number (and the denominator denominator the bottom line of a fraction; the base population on which population rates such as birth and death rates are calculated. denominator of the fractional routing number) form the "Federal Reserve routing symbol," and the first two digits of the routing number identify the Federal Reserve District Federal Reserve District (Reserve district or district) One of the twelve geographic regions served by a Federal Reserve Bank. in which the bank is located. Thus, 01 will be the first two digits of the routing number of a bank in the First Federal Reserve District (Boston), and 12 will be the first two digits of the routing number of a bank in the Twelfth District (San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden ). Adding 2 to the first digit denotes a thrift institution Thrift institution An organization formed as a depository for primarily consumer savings. Savings and loan associations and savings banks are thrift institutions. . Thus, 21 identifies a thrift in the First District, and 32 denotes a thrift in the Twelfth District. C. Each Federal Reserve check processing office is listed below, followed by the Federal Reserve routing symbols of the banks that are located within the check-processing region served by that office. Because some check processing regions cross Federal Reserve District lines, there are some cases in which banks in different Federal Reserve Districts are located in the same check-processing region and therefore considered local to each other. For example, banks in Fairfield County, Connecticut Fairfield County is located in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Connecticut. Its population according to the 2000 census was 882,567, but a 2006 survey put the population at 905,000. It is the most populous county in the State of Connecticut. are located in Second District and have Second District routing numbers (0211 or 2211), but the Windsor Locks Windsor Locks, town (1990 pop. 12,358), Hartford co., N Conn., on the Connecticut River; settled 1663, set off from Windsor and inc. 1854. Once a tobacco-farming center, it has aircraft, aerospace, and paper industries. office of the First District processes the checks of these banks. Thus, as indicated below, checks drawn on banks with 0211 or 2211 routing numbers would be local for First District banks served by the Windsor Locks office but would be nonlocal for other Second District depositary DEPOSITARY, contracts. He with whom a deposit is confided or made. 2. It is, the essence of the contract of deposits that it should be gratuitous on the part 'of the depositary. 9 M. R. 470. banks. Federal Reserve Banks 0110 0001 5 0111 0048 1 0210 0120 8 0212 0400 5 0213 0500 1 0220 0026 6 0310 0004 0 0410 0001 4 0420 0043 7 0430 0030 0 0440 0050 3 0510 0003 3 0519 0002 3 0520 0027 8 0530 0020 6 0539 0008 9 0610 0014 6 0620 0019 0 0630 0019 9 0640 0010 1 0650 0021 0 0660 0010 9 0710 0030 1 0711 0711 0 0720 0029 0 0730 0033 8 0740 0020 1 0750 0012 9 0810 0004 5 0820 0013 8 0830 0059 3 0840 0003 9 0910 0008 0 0920 0026 7 1010 0004 8 1020 0019 9 1030 0024 0 1040 0012 6 1110 0003 8 1120 0001 1 1130 0004 9 1140 0072 1 1210 0037 4 1220 0016 6 1230 0001 3 1240 0031 3 1250 0001 1 Federal Home Loan Banks 0110 0053 6 0212 0639 1 0260 0973 9 0410 0291 5 0420 0091 6 0430 0143 5 0430 1862 2 0610 0876 6 0710 0450 1 0730 0091 4 0740 0101 9 0810 0091 9 0910 0091 2 1010 0091 2 1011 0194 7 1110 1083 7 1119 1083 0 1210 0070 1 1240 0287 4 1250 0050 3 |
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