Montana Code Annotated 1997

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     32-1-109. Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions apply:
     (1) "Affiliate" has the meaning given that term in 12 U.S.C. 1841(k).
     (2) "Bank holding company" means a bank holding company registered under the federal Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended.
     (3) "Board" means the state banking board provided for in 2-15-1803.
     (4) "Branch bank" means:
     (a) a banking house, other than the main banking house, maintained and operated by a bank doing business in the state and at which deposits are received, checks are paid, or money is lent, but does not include a satellite terminal, as defined in 32-6-103, or the office of an affiliated depository institution acting as an agent; and
     (b) in the case of a trust company, any office at which trust services are provided.
     (5) "Capital", "capital stock", and "paid-in capital" mean that fund for which certificates of stock are issued to stockholders.
     
     (6) "Consolidate" and "merge" mean the same thing and may be used interchangeably in this chapter.
     (7) "Demand deposits" means all deposits, the payment of which can legally be required when demanded.
     (8) "Department" means the department of commerce provided for in Title 2, chapter 15, part 18.
     (9) "Depository institution" means a bank or savings association organized under the laws of a state or the United States.
     (10) "Division" means the division of banking and financial institutions of the department.
     (11) "Insured depository institution" means a bank or savings association in which the deposits are insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation.
     (12) "Main banking house" means the designated principal place of business of a bank in the state.
     (13) "Net earnings" means the excess of the gross earnings of a bank over expenses and losses chargeable against those earnings during any 1 year.
     (14) "Principal shareholder" means a person who directly or indirectly owns or controls, individually or through others, more than 10% of any class of voting stock.
     (15) "Profit and loss account" or "profit and loss" means that account carried on the books of the bank into which all earnings accounts and recoveries are closed, thus exhibiting "gross earnings", and against which all loss and other disbursement items are charged, revealing "net earnings", which are then properly closed to "undivided profits accounts" or "undivided profits", out of which dividends are paid and reserves set aside.
     (16) "Savings association" means a savings association or savings bank organized under the laws of the United States or a building and loan association, savings and loan association, or similar entity organized under the laws of a state.
     (17) "Shell bank" means a bank organized solely for the purpose of, and that does not conduct any banking business prior to, acquiring control of, merging with, or acquiring all or substantially all of the assets of an existing bank or savings association.
     (18) "Surplus" means a fund paid in or created under this chapter by a bank from its net earnings or undivided profits that, when set apart and designated as surplus, is not available for the payment of dividends and cannot be used for the payment of expenses or losses so long as the bank has undivided profits.
     (19) "Time deposits" means all deposits, the payment of which cannot legally be required within 7 days.
     (20) "Undivided profits" means the credit balance of the profit and loss account of a bank.

     History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 89, L. 1927; re-en. Sec. 6014.9, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 431, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 5-109; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 274, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 483, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 75, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 322, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 395, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 117, L. 1997.

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