Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:572

  • 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.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Trust business: means the holding out by a person to the public by advertising, solicitation, or other means that the person is available to perform any service of a fiduciary in this state or another state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:572
  • Trust company: means a corporation or a limited liability trust company organized under this Chapter, including a trust company organized under the laws of this state before June 27, 2003, or an entity chartered to act as a fiduciary that is neither a depository institution nor a foreign bank. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:572

As used in this Chapter:

(1)  “Trust business” means the holding out by a person to the public by advertising, solicitation, or other means that the person is available to perform any service of a fiduciary in this state or another state.

(2)  “Trust company” means a corporation or a limited liability trust company organized under this Chapter, including a trust company organized under the laws of this state before June 27, 2003, or an entity chartered to act as a fiduciary that is neither a depository institution nor a foreign bank.

(3)  “Trust office” means an office, other than the principal office, at which a trust company is licensed by the commissioner to act as a fiduciary.

(4)  “Trust representative office” means an office of an out-of-state trust company at which the company has been authorized by the commissioner to engage in a trust business other than acting as a fiduciary.  At these offices, a trust company is permitted to market and solicit trust services and provide office and administrative support to their trust operations, but may not act as a fiduciary at these offices, or anywhere in this state.  Any account originated at such office shall be governed by the laws of the state in which the trust company is domiciled.

Acts 2003, No. 573, §1, eff. June 27, 2003.