Iowa Code 524.705 – Bonds of officers and employees
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Terms Used In Iowa Code 524.705
- Bank: means a corporation organized under this chapter, a national bank, a federal savings association, or an out-of-state bank. See Iowa Code 524.103
- Board: means the engineering and land surveying examining board provided by this chapter. See Iowa Code 542B.2
- Commission: means the real estate commission as established by chapter 543B. See Iowa Code 543C.1
- Control: means when a person, directly or indirectly or acting through or together with one or more persons, satisfies any of the following:a. See Iowa Code 524.103
- Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. Source: OCC
- Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Officer: means chief executive officer, executive officer, or any other administrative official of a state bank elected by the state bank's board of directors to carry out any of the state bank's operating rules and policies. See Iowa Code 524.103
- Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
- State bank: means any bank incorporated pursuant to the provisions of this chapter after January 1, 1970, and any "state bank" incorporated pursuant to the laws of this state and doing business as such on January 1, 1970, or a bank organized as a mutual corporation under this chapter. See Iowa Code 524.103
- Superintendent: means the superintendent of banking of this state. See Iowa Code 524.103
The officers and employees of a state bank having the care, custody, or control of any funds or securities for any state bank shall give a good and sufficient bond in a company authorized to do business in this state indemnifying the state bank against losses, which may be incurred by reason of any act or acts of fraud, dishonesty, forgery, theft, larceny, embezzlement, wrongful abstraction, misapplication, misappropriation, or other unlawful act committed by such officer or employee directly or through connivance with others, until all of the officer’s or employee’s accounts with the state bank are fully settled and satisfied. The amounts and sureties are subject to the approval of the board of directors. The superintendent may require higher amounts as deemed necessary. If the agent of a bonding company issuing a bond under this section is an officer or employee of the state bank upon which the bond was issued, the bond so issued shall contain a provision that the bonding company shall not use, either as a grounds for rescission or as a defense to liability under the terms and conditions of the bond, the knowledge that the agent was so employed, whether or not the agent received any part of the premium for the bond as a commission.