A.(1) Administrators, executors, custodians, conservators, guardians, tutors, curators, trustees, and other fiduciaries of every kind and nature; insurance companies, business and manufacturing companies, banks, trust companies, credit unions, and other types of similar financial organizations; charitable, educational, eleemosynary and public corporations, funds and organizations; the state of Louisiana, its agencies, boards, commissions, departments, municipalities, school boards, parishes, and any other political subdivision of the state, other public corporations and bodies, and the public officials thereof are hereby specifically authorized and empowered to invest without any order of any court funds held by them in share accounts or share certificate accounts of credit unions, federally chartered or state chartered, and such investments shall be deemed and held to be legal investment for such funds.

            (2) Investments by banks and trust companies; by the state of Louisiana, its agencies, boards, commissions, and departments; by the state treasurer of state funds standing in the name of the state treasurer; by political subdivisions of the state and other public bodies existing under the constitution and laws of the state of Louisiana, any parish, or any political subdivision of any parish, and city, town, or village, or any political subdivision of any city, town, or village shall not exceed at any one time the sum of the primary amount insured by the National Credit Union Administration and the excess amount insured by a private sector insurance provider or a deposit insurance corporation in any one federally or state chartered credit union, in lieu of collateralization by the pledging of securities in the manner provided by La. Rev. Stat. 39:1221 or La. Rev. Stat. 49:321.

            (3) With respect to investments by custodians, credit unions, federally chartered or state chartered, are hereby deemed to be “custodians” within the meaning of that term as used in the Louisiana Gifts to Minors Act of this state as provided in La. Rev. Stat. 9:735 et seq., provided such custodians are limited to investments in share accounts or share certificate accounts in such credit unions, federally or state chartered, or in obligations or securities issued by such credit unions, federally or state chartered.

            B. Whenever, under the laws of this state or otherwise, a deposit of securities is required for any purpose, the share accounts or share certificate accounts made legal investments by this Section in the amount of such bond, when deposited therewith, shall be acceptable as security without other security.

            C. The provisions of this Section are supplemental to any and all other laws relating to and declaring what shall be legal investments for the persons, fiduciaries, corporations, organizations and officials referred to in this Section, and the laws relating to the deposit of securities and the making and filing of bonds for any purpose.

            Added by Acts 1977, No. 165, §2. Amended by Acts 1979, No. 487, §1; Acts 1984, No. 581, §1; Acts 2023, No. 81, §1, eff. July 1, 2023.