Michigan Laws 487.3434 – Capital and surplus; limitations
Current as of: 2023 | Check for updates
|
Other versions
All of the following limitations based upon capital and surplus shall apply:
(a) Loans and extensions of credit to a customer secured by bills of lading, warehouse receipts, or similar documents transferring or securing title to readily marketable staples shall be subject to a limitation of 30% of capital and surplus of a stock savings bank, or 30% of total capital of a mutual savings bank, if the value of the staples securing the loans or extensions of credit at all times equals or exceeds 115% of the outstanding amount of the loans or extensions of credit. The staples shall be fully covered by insurance if it is customary to insure the staples.
Terms Used In Michigan Laws 487.3434
- Bank: means a state banking corporation organized or reorganized under the provisions of the banking code of 1999, 1999 PA 276, MCL 487. See Michigan Laws 487.3102
- Capital: means the stated par value of issued and outstanding unimpaired common stock and the stated par value of issued and outstanding unimpaired preferred stock. See Michigan Laws 487.3102
- in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- Mutual savings bank: means a savings bank for which the articles of incorporation do not authorize the issuance of common or preferred stock. See Michigan Laws 487.3103
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, governmental entity, partnership, limited liability partnership, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 487.3103
- Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. Source: FDIC
- Savings bank: means a state banking corporation organized or reorganized under this act. See Michigan Laws 487.3103
- Stock savings bank: means a savings bank for which the articles of incorporation authorize the issuance of capital stock. See Michigan Laws 487.3103
- Surplus: means the amount paid for issued and outstanding common and preferred stock in excess of the stated par value, plus any amount of transferred undivided profits, and any additional amounts paid in or contributed to increase total capital. See Michigan Laws 487.3103
- Total capital: means an amount equal to any capital, plus any surplus, undivided profits, and instruments of indebtedness authorized under section 310. See Michigan Laws 487.3103
- Value: means the present worth of all rights to future benefits arising from ownership. See Michigan Laws 487.3103
(b) Loans or extensions of credit to a customer secured by shipping documents or instruments transferring or securing title covering livestock, or giving a lien on livestock, if the value of the livestock securing the obligation is not at any time less than 115% of the face amount of the notes covered, shall be subject to a limitation of 30% of capital and surplus of a stock savings bank, or 30% of total capital of a mutual savings bank. Loans or extensions of credit arising from the discount by dealers in dairy cattle of paper given in payment for dairy cattle, which paper carries a full recourse indorsement or unconditional guarantee of the seller and which are secured by the cattle being sold, shall be subject to a limitation of 30% of capital and surplus.
(c) Loans or extensions of credit arising from the discount of negotiable or nonnegotiable installment consumer paper which carries a full recourse indorsement or unconditional guarantee by a person transferring the paper, shall be subject to a limitation of 30% of capital and surplus of a stock savings bank, or 30% of total capital of a mutual savings bank. If the savings bank’s files or the knowledge of its officers of the financial condition of each maker of the consumer paper is reasonably adequate, and an officer of the savings bank designated for that purpose by the board of directors of the savings bank certifies in writing that the savings bank is relying primarily upon the responsibility of each maker for the payment of the loans or extensions of credit, the limitations of this section as to the loans and extensions of credit of each maker shall be the sole applicable loan limitation. The certification shall be retained as part of the records of the savings bank.