Notice to a state savings bank of an adverse claim to a deposit account on the books of the state savings bank to the credit of a person does not cause the state savings bank to recognize the adverse claimant unless the adverse claimant also either:

(1) procures a restraining order, injunction, or other appropriate process against the state savings bank from a court in a case instituted by him in which the person to whose credit the account stands is made a party and served with process; or

Terms Used In South Carolina Code 34-30-1660

  • 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
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.

(2) executes to the state savings bank, in a form and amount and with sureties acceptable to it, a bond indemnifying the state savings bank from and against all liability, loss, damage, costs, and expenses, for and on account of the payment of the adverse claim or the dishonor of a draft or other order by the person to whose credit the account stands on the books of the state savings bank.