2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 36a - The Banking Law of Connecticut
Chapter 664b - Corporate Organization and Administration of Connecticut Banks
Section 36a-95 - (Formerly Sec. 36-9c). Interlocking directors.

With the approval of the commissioner, a Connecticut bank or a holding company that controls a Connecticut bank may have as an officer, employee or director a person who serves as an officer, employee, or director of any holding company, bank or out-of-state bank which is not an affiliate of the Connecticut bank or the holding company that controls a Connecticut bank, unless such dual service is prohibited by (1) the Depository Institution Management Interlocks Act, 12 USC Sections 3201 to 3208, inclusive, as from time to time amended, and the federal regulations prescribed thereunder, as from time to time amended, that apply to the Connecticut bank or the holding company that controls a Connecticut bank, or (2) any regulation that the commissioner may adopt in accordance with chapter 54.

(P.A. 73-124, S. 1–4; P.A. 78-121, S. 13, 113; P.A. 83-291, S. 1, 2; 83-406, S. 10, 11; P.A. 88-59; P.A. 94-122, S. 46, 340; P.A. 95-21.)

History: P.A. 78-121 deleted reference to building associations in Subsec. (a) and deleted former Subsecs. (c) and (e) which had protected rights of any person to be officer, employee, etc., of state bank and trust company and savings bank having same home office before January 1, 1971, and rights to hold any position with state or federally chartered banking institution for three-year period beginning October 1, 1973, relettering as necessary; P.A. 83-291 included federal savings banks in the prohibition against interlocking directorates, permitted interlocking directorates when one institution is a subsidiary of the other or when two or more institutions are subsidiaries of the same holding company and amended Subsec. (c) to include savings banks, federal savings banks and federal or state savings and loan associations in the exemption; P.A. 83-406 duplicated addition of federal savings banks in Subsec. (a) and Subsec. (c) changes of P.A. 83-291; P.A. 88-59 extended the application of the section to holding companies and defined the term “holding company”; P.A. 94-122 deleted Subsecs. (a) and (c) and made technical changes, effective January 1, 1995; Sec. 36-9c transferred to Sec. 36a-95 in 1995; P.A. 95-21 changed section content from prohibiting to authorizing interlocking officers, employees and directors of nonaffiliate banks and holding companies, added the requirement of commissioner’s approval and added the exceptions in Subdivs. (1) and (2) re 12 USC and regulations.