1. For purposes of this chapter the superintendent of banking only has the power to issue rules applicable to, to accept and approve or disapprove applications or informational statements from, to conduct hearings and revoke any approvals relating to, and to exercise all other supervisory authority created by this chapter with respect to banks; the superintendent of credit unions only has such powers and authority with respect to credit unions; and the superintendent of banking or the superintendent’s designee only has such powers and authority with respect to industrial loan companies.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 527.3

  • Access device: means a card, code, or other mechanism, or any combination thereof, that may be used by a customer for the purpose of initiating a transaction by means of a satellite terminal which will affect a customer asset account. See Iowa Code 527.2
  • account: means a demand deposit, share, checking, savings, or other customer account, other than an occasional or incidental credit balance in a credit plan, which represents a liability of the financial institution which maintains such account at a business location or office located in this state, either directly or indirectly for the benefit of a customer. See Iowa Code 527.2
  • Administrator: means and includes the superintendent of banking and the superintendent of credit unions within the department of commerce and the supervisor of industrial loan companies within the office of the superintendent of banking. See Iowa Code 527.2
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Central routing unit: means any facility where electronic impulses or other indicia of a transaction originating at a satellite terminal are received and are routed and transmitted to a financial institution, or to a data processing center, or to another central routing unit, wherever located. See Iowa Code 527.2
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Data processing center: means a facility, wherever located, at which electronic impulses or other indicia of a transaction originating at a satellite terminal are received and are processed in order to enable the satellite terminal to perform any function for which it is designed. See Iowa Code 527.2
  • Financial institution: means and includes any bank incorporated under the provisions of any state or federal law, any savings and loan association incorporated under the provisions of federal law, any credit union organized under the provisions of any state or federal law, any corporation licensed as an industrial loan company under chapter 536A, and any affiliate of a bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or industrial loan company. See Iowa Code 527.2
  • Limited-function terminal: means an on-line point-of-sale terminal, an off-line point-of-sale terminal, or a multiple use terminal, which is not operated in a manner to accept an electronic personal identifier. See Iowa Code 527.2
  • Multiple use terminal: means any machine or device to which all of the following are applicable:
  • Open-end credit: A credit agreement (typically a credit card) that allows a customer to borrow against a preapproved credit line when purchasing goods and services. The borrower is only billed for the amount that is actually borrowed plus any interest due. (Also called a charge account or revolving credit.) Source: OCC
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Routing: means the process of interpreting and transmitting requested electronic funds transfer transactions to a destination selected at the time of interpretation and transmission from two or more alternative destinations. See Iowa Code 527.2
  • Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Satellite terminal: means and includes any machine or device located off the premises of a financial institution, and any machine or device located on the premises of a financial institution only if the machine or device is available for use by customers of other financial institutions, whether attended or unattended, by means of which the financial institution and its customers utilizing an access device may engage through either the immediate transmission of electronic impulses to or from the financial institution or the recording of electronic impulses or other indicia of a transaction for delayed transmission to the financial institution, in transactions which affect a customer asset account and which otherwise are specifically permitted by applicable law. See Iowa Code 527.2
  • 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
  • Transaction: means a sale, trade, exchange, transfer, payment, or conversion of a digital asset or any other property or any other action or set of actions occurring between two or more persons relating to the conduct of business, commercial, or governmental affairs. See Iowa Code 554E.1
 2. The administrator shall have the authority to examine any person who operates a multiple use terminal, limited-function terminal, or other satellite terminal, and any other device or facility with which such terminal is interconnected, as to any transaction by, with, or involving a financial institution which affects a customer asset account. Information obtained in the course of such an examination shall not be disclosed, except as provided by law.
 3. Nothing contained in this chapter shall authorize the administrator to regulate the conduct of business functions or to obtain access to any business records, data, or information of a person who operates a multiple use terminal, except those pertaining to a financial transaction engaged in through a satellite terminal, or as may otherwise be provided by law.
 4. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit or to authorize the administrator to prohibit an operator of a multiple use terminal, other than a financial institution, or an operator of any other device or facility with which such terminal is interconnected, other than a central routing unit or data processing center (as defined in section 527.2) from using those facilities to perform internal proprietary functions, including the extension of credit pursuant to an open-end credit arrangement.
 5. An administrator may conduct hearings and exercise any other appropriate authority conferred by this chapter regarding the operation or control of a satellite terminal upon the written request of a person, including but not limited to, a retailer, financial institution, or consumer.
 6. The authority of an administrator pursuant to section 527.5, subsection 2, paragraph “a”, to approve access cards issued by a financial institution for use as an access device includes the requirement that a registration statement shall be filed with the administrator and be maintained on a current basis by each financial institution issuing access cards within the state. The registration statement shall be in writing on a form prescribed by the administrator, and contain the name and address of the registrant, a depiction of both sides of the access card, and any other information the administrator deems relevant relating to the access card and transactions utilizing the access card which affect a customer asset account.
 7. A financial institution shall not be required to join, be a member or shareholder of, or otherwise participate in, any corporation, association, partnership, cooperative, or other enterprise as a condition of the financial institution’s utilization of any satellite terminal located within this state.
 8. An administrator may issue any order necessary to secure compliance with or prevent a violation of this chapter or the rules adopted pursuant to this chapter, regarding the establishment and operation of a satellite terminal, limited-function terminal, upgraded, altered, modified, or replaced limited-function terminal, and any other device or facility with which such terminal is interconnected. A person who violates a provision of this chapter or any rule or any order issued pursuant to this chapter is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars for each day the violation continues. A person aggrieved by an order of an administrator may appeal the order by filing a written notice of appeal with the administrator within thirty days of the issuance of the order. The administrator shall schedule a hearing for the purpose of hearing the arguments of the aggrieved person within thirty days of the filing of the notice of appeal. The provisions of chapter 17A shall apply to all matters related to the appeal. The attorney general, on request of the administrator, shall institute any legal proceedings necessary to obtain compliance with an order of the administrator or to prosecute a person for a violation of the provisions of this chapter or rules adopted pursuant to this chapter.