2013 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 19 - Financial institutions
Chapter 19-7 - Interstate Banking, Interstate Branching and Bank Holding Company Mergers and Acquisitions
Section 19-7-1 - Definitions.

§ 19-7-1 Definitions. – (a) For the purposes of this chapter, the term or terms:

(1) "Bank," "bank holding company," "company," "subsidiary," and "control" have the meanings set forth in the Federal Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, 12 U.S.C. § 1841 et seq., except that "bank" also includes financial institutions, as defined in this title, and other forms of federally insured deposit-taking institutions and bank holding companies include thrift holding companies as set forth in the Home Owners' Loan Act, 12 U.S.C. § 1461 et seq., whether organized with or without capital stock.

(2) "Out-of-state bank" means a bank whose principal office is located in any other state.

(3) "Out-of-state bank holding company" means a holding company for which the operations of its bank subsidiaries are principally conducted in any other state.

(4) "Rhode Island bank holding company" means a bank holding company that controls a financial institution, provided that an out-of-state bank or bank holding company that acquired control of one or more financial institutions shall not be deemed to be a Rhode Island bank holding company, unless operations of its bank subsidiaries are principally conducted in this state.

(b) For the purposes of this chapter, the state in which operations of a bank holding company's bank subsidiaries are principally conducted is the state in which total deposits of all of its bank subsidiaries are the largest.

History of Section.
(P.L. 1995, ch. 82, § 45.)