As used in this article: An association is “local” if the greater portion of its investment in real estate loans is limited to loans on the security of a first lien or security title on real estate. Any such association may purchase real estate loans or interests in real estate loans which are made and […]
No savings and loan association or similar corporation existing under the laws of this state or of the United States shall accept deposits in this state except on the premises of an established principal office or branch office operated pursuant to this article. For the purposes of this Code section, the term “branch office” shall […]
No person or corporation, except a savings and loan association actually engaged in carrying on a savings and loan business as contemplated by this article or the laws of the United States, shall transact business under any name or title which contains the term “savings and loan” or combination of the words used in said […]
To secure loans, savings and loan associations shall have a lien without further agreement or pledge upon all deposits with it by a borrower; and, upon default upon any loan, any such association may, without notice to or consent of the borrower, cancel on its books part or all of the amount outstanding to the […]
Any other financial institution existing under the laws of this state doing a home financing business may convert itself into a savings and loan association in accordance with Section 5 of the Home Owners’ Loan Act, 12 U.S.C. Section 1464, upon a vote of 51 percent or more of the votes of the members cast […]
Any corporation which has converted itself prior to April 1, 1975, into a savings and loan association under the Home Owners’ Loan Act and has received a charter from the Federal Home Loan Bank Board shall be recognized as a savings and loan association, and its federal charter shall be given full credence by the […]
No savings and loan association with a home office in this state shall be assessed or subjected to taxation by the state or any county, municipality, or other political subdivision taxing authority on its franchise, capital, reserves, surplus, loans, shares, or accounts; except that any real property and any tangible personal property not hereinbefore specifically […]
The opening and transfer of deposits in a savings and loan association are exempted from all provisions of law of this state which provide for the supervision and the regulation of the sale of securities, even if the word “shares” or similar terminology is used in connection therewith; and the sale of any such deposits […]
No notary public or other public officer shall be disqualified from taking the acknowledgment of or witnessing any instrument, in writing, in which a savings and loan association is interested, by reason of his holding an office in or being a member of or being pecuniarily interested in or employed by such association so interested; […]
A minor shall be allowed to have deposits in a savings and loan association in his own name, and the deposits made by the minor shall not be subject to the control of his parent, guardian, or trustee. A minor may have third-party payment accounts. A receipt or acquittance signed by such a minor depositor […]
A savings and loan association may receive deposits in the name of an administrator, executor, guardian, trustee, or other fiduciary in trust for a named or an unnamed beneficiary or beneficiaries. Such a deposit and dividends or interest thereon or other rights relating thereto may be paid or delivered, in whole or in part, to […]
Except as provided in Article 8 of this chapter, upon the death of a depositor of a savings and loan association, such association may pay the amount of his deposit or any portion thereof to an executor, administrator, or other fiduciary duly appointed and qualified pursuant to the last will and testament of the depositor […]
Except as provided in Article 8 of this chapter, if no application for the deposit is made by any person named in Code Section 7-1-791 within 90 days from the death of a depositor, a savings and loan association shall be authorized to apply not more than $1,000.00 of the deposit of such deceased depositor […]
Administrators, executors, guardians, trustees, and other fiduciaries of every kind and nature; insurance companies; charitable, educational, eleemosynary, and public corporations and organizations; municipalities and other public corporations and bodies; and public officials are authorized to invest funds held by them, without any order of any court, in deposits in savings and loan associations which are […]
Whenever, under the laws of this state or otherwise, a deposit of securities is required for any purpose, the deposits made legal investments by Code Section 7-1-793 shall be acceptable as such security; and, whenever, under the law of this state or otherwise, a bond is required with security, such bond may be furnished and […]
The original record of deposits in savings and loan associations is the record on the books of the association, and the depositor shall be entitled to a savings account book or certificate which is a duplicate of such record. Those dealing with such savings account books and certificates shall be bound by the record on […]
A savings and loan association paying deposits to an insane or otherwise incompetent depositor or bankrupt depositor or acting upon the release and discharge or authorization of such depositor or acting upon the power of attorney of an insane, deceased, or bankrupt depositor in good faith and without actual knowledge of the insanity or other […]
