Section 362.078

Title XXIV BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Chapter 362

Effective - 28 Aug 2006   

  362.078.  Industrial loan companies and banks prohibited from maintaining facilities for banking purposes, definitions. — Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, an industrial loan company or industrial bank is prohibited from establishing or maintaining any deposit production office, loan production office, or one or more bank branches for the purpose of conducting any banking business within this state, whether by de novo charter, branching, or merger with another institution.  As used in this section, the terms "industrial loan company" and "industrial bank" include any company chartered under the laws of any state that:

  (1)  Is insured or regulated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation;

  (2)  Engages in one or more banking activities; and

  (3)  Is owned, directly or indirectly, by a commercial entity that is not a bank holding company or a financial holding company subject to regulation under the Federal Bank Holding Company Act of 1956.

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(L. 2006 S.B. 892)