(1) This state and any of its departments or political subdivisions, including municipal corporations, or instrumentalities, or any insurance company, building and loan association or company, savings and loan association or company, bank, trust company, or other financial institution or any executor, administrator, guardian, trustee, or other fiduciary may invest their funds or money in the bonds of the home owners’ loan corporation or in the bonds of any federal home loan bank or in certificates of deposit or depository receipts of any financial institution.
  (2) Assets acceptable for pledging to secure deposits of funds under this act are limited to any of the following:

Terms Used In Michigan Laws 129.81

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • 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.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  (a) Assets considered acceptable to the state treasurer under section 3 of 1855 PA 105, MCL 21.143, to secure deposits of state surplus funds.
  (b) Any of the following:
  (i) Securities issued by the federal home loan mortgage corporation.
  (ii) Securities issued by the federal national mortgage association.
  (iii) Securities issued by the government national mortgage association.
  (c) Other securities considered acceptable to the depositor of funds and the financial institution.
  (3) As used in this section, “financial institution” means a state or nationally chartered bank or a state or federally chartered savings and loan association, savings bank, or credit union whose deposits are insured by an agency of the United States government and which maintains a principal office or branch office located in this state under the laws of this state or the United States.