2014 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 6 - Banks and Banking
RS 6:1137 - Definitions

§1137. Definitions

A. "Appraisal" means a professionally derived, written conclusion of value of the present worth of specified interests or rights in a specific piece of real property, which conclusion is supported by stipulated market conditions and explicitly stated assumptions as of a particular point in time and made for a specified party.

B. "Affiliate" means any company that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a savings bank operating under this Chapter.

C. "Affiliated person of a savings bank or insured institution" means the following:

(1) A director, officer, or controlling person of a savings bank or insured institution;

(2) A spouse of a director, officer, or controlling person of a savings bank or institution;

(3) A member of the immediate family of a director, officer, or controlling person of a savings bank or insured institution, who has the same home as such person;

(4) A director or officer of any subsidiary of a savings bank or insured institution or of any holding company affiliate of a savings bank or insured institution; or

(5) Any corporation or organization, other than the savings bank or insured institution or a corporation or organization through which the savings bank or insured institution operates, of which a director, officer, or controlling person of such savings bank or insured institution:

(a) Is chief executive officer, chief financial officer, or a person performing similar functions;

(b) Is a general partner;

(c) Is a limited partner who, directly or indirectly, either alone or with his spouse or any other members of his immediate family who are also affiliated persons of the institution, owns an interest of ten percent or more in the partnership, based on the value of his contribution, or who, directly or indirectly with other directors, officers, and controlling persons of such institution and their spouses and other immediate family members who are also affiliated persons of the institution, owns an interest of twenty-five percent or more in the partnership; or

(d) Directly or indirectly, either alone or with his spouse and any other members of his immediate family who are also affiliated persons of the institution, owns or controls ten percent or more of any class of equity securities or owns or controls, with other directors, officers, and controlling persons of such savings bank or insured institution and their spouses and other immediate family members who are also affiliated persons of the savings bank or insured institution, twenty-five percent or more of any class of equity securities.

D. "Branch" or "branch office" means any branch office where deposits are received or checks paid, or any of the savings bank's other business is transacted, but shall not include any place where only records thereof are made, posted, or kept. Such term does not include a place where the savings bank's business is conducted only through an automatic teller machine.

E. "Capital" shall include capital stock, paid-in-surplus, undivided profits, and current year earnings.

F. "Capital stock" means the sum of the par value of the shares outstanding plus any amounts in excess of par value transferred from surplus to capital stock in respect of such shares less any part of such amounts transferred from capital stock to surplus as permitted by this Chapter.

G. "Director" means any director, trustee, or other person performing similar functions with respect to any organization whether incorporated or unincorporated. Such term does not include an advisory director, honorary director, director emeritus, or similar person, unless the person is otherwise performing functions similar to those of a director.

H. "Default", with respect to a bank as defined in the Louisiana Banking Law, means any adjudication or other official determination by any court of competent jurisdiction, an appropriate federal banking agency, or by the Louisiana commissioner of financial institutions, pursuant to which a conservator, receiver, or other legal custodian is appointed for an insured savings bank.

I. "Eligible insured savings bank" means an insured savings bank, having its main banking premises in Louisiana, that is in default or in danger of default as those terms are defined in this Chapter.

J. "Fiduciary" means a trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, agent, receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, assignee for creditors, or any holder of a similar position of trust. It also describes the relationship of a director and officer to an insured savings bank as stipulated in R.S. 6:1190.

K. "Impaired condition" means, with respect to capital, a condition below the minimum level of capital established by the commissioner as stipulated in R.S. 6:1206(A).

L.(1) "In danger of default" means an insured savings bank, as defined in this Chapter, with respect to which either the commissioner of financial institutions has advised the appropriate federal banking agency or, if the federal banking agency is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has determined, that:

(a) In the opinion of the commissioner of financial institutions or such other federal banking agency and without the objections of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation:

(i) The insured savings bank is not likely to be able to meet its demands for withdrawal of insured accounts or pay its obligations in the normal course of business; and

(ii) There is no reasonable prospect that the insured savings bank will be able to meet such demands or pay such obligations without federal assistance; or

(b) In the opinion of the commissioner of financial institutions or such other federal banking agency and without the objections of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation:

(i) That the insured savings bank has incurred or is likely to incur losses that will deplete all or substantially all of its capital; and

(ii) There is no reasonable prospect that the capital of the insured bank will be replenished without federal assistance.

(2) The commissioner may promulgate rules with regard to insured savings banks that are in danger of default and are eligible insured depository institutions and with regard to his findings thereon.

M. "Insurance corporation" means an instrumentality of or a corporation chartered by the United States which is supported by the "full faith and credit of the United States Government" as stated in a Congressional resolution or as created by an Act of Congress.

N. "Insured savings bank" means a savings bank or association the withdrawable accounts of which are insured wholly or in part by an insurance corporation.

O. "Investment" means residential and commercial loans, as well as purchases of corporate debentures, securities, and bonds subject to regulation of the commissioner.

P. "Marketable investment securities" means those securities rated in the four top categories by a national rating firm.

Q. "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, estate, or unincorporated association.

R. "Published", unless otherwise defined in this Chapter, means the publishing of the notice referred to in a newspaper of general circulation in the community in which the publishing savings bank is located. Publishing shall be at the expense of the savings bank required to publish. Where publishing is required, the savings bank shall submit to the commissioner such evidence of the publication as the commissioner shall deem appropriate.

S. "Service corporation" means any corporation which is fifty-one percent or more owned by one or more savings banks, or by savings banks and other insured depository institutions, whose purposes are reasonably incident to the accomplishment of the express or incidental powers conferred upon savings banks by this Chapter.

T. "Value" means the present worth of all rights to future benefits arising from ownership.

U. "Prudent person rule" means in all activities connected with savings banks operating under this Chapter, all officers, directors, employees, and agents of any kind of a savings bank shall exercise the judgment and care under circumstances then prevailing which persons of prudence, discretion, and intelligence exercise in the management of their own affairs, not in regard to speculation, but in regard to the permanent disposition of their funds, considering the probable income as well as the probable safety of their capital.

Acts 1990, No. 816, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 1990; Acts 2001, No. 633, §1, eff. June 22, 2001.