Terms Used In South Carolina Code 34-30-1280

  • bank: as used in this title must be construed to include all institutions doing any kind of banking business whose deposits are eligible for insurance by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, excluding a savings bank, and "building and loan association" as used in this title must be construed to include a mutual or stock savings association, savings and loan association, or savings bank and all other institutions doing any kind of building and loan business whose deposits are eligible for insurance by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. See South Carolina Code 34-1-10
  • National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. Source: OCC
A rule or regulation that the board adopts in respect to loans permitted to be made by state savings banks as necessary to assure that the loans are in keeping with sound lending practices and to promote the purposes of this chapter must not prohibit a state savings bank from making a loan that is a permitted loan for federal savings or federal association under federal regulatory authority or to a state or national bank.