1. Any trust company may become a state bank with all the powers and subject to all the obligations and duties of state banks organized under the provisions of this chapter.

2. A trust company desiring to become a state bank shall proceed in the following manner:

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 362.118

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Bank: means any corporation soliciting, receiving or accepting money, or its equivalent, on deposit as a business, whether the deposit is made subject to check, or is evidenced by a certificate of deposit, a passbook, a note, a receipt, or other writing, and specifically a commercial bank chartered under this chapter or a national bank located in this state. See Missouri Laws 362.010
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

(1) It shall call a meeting of its stockholders and shall give notice thereof as provided in section 362.044.

(2) At the meeting so called the stockholders of the trust company may by a vote of at least two-thirds of its entire capital stock issued, outstanding and entitled to vote, direct that the trust company shall be transformed into a state bank. In the event that such action is taken by the prescribed vote, a resolution shall be adopted fixing a future date certain upon which the trust company shall be transformed into a state bank and directing that not less than five, and not more than thirty, of the stockholders of the trust company, who shall be designated by name in the resolution, proceed with the organization of the state bank.

(3) The designated stockholders shall proceed in all respects as provided by law for other individuals in incorporating state banks, except that the articles of agreement may provide that instead of the capital stock being paid up in lawful money the same may be paid up by an assignment of so much of the assets of the trust company about to dissolve as may be necessary to pay up the capital stock of the state bank, the assignment to take effect on the aforesaid future date certain, and the director may allow the assignment to be accepted instead of cash, if the incorporators shall have certified in the articles of agreement that the net value of the assigned assets is equal to at least the full amount of the capital stock of the proposed state bank, and the director, as the result of an examination by himself, his deputies, or his examiners, is satisfied that the assets are of such value.

(4) No such trust company shall be permitted to become a state bank unless it shall, on or prior to the future date certain named in the above mentioned resolution, have caused a successor trustee, or successor trustees, to be appointed by the circuit court having jurisdiction, and shall have made settlement with the successor trustee, or successor trustees, and the settlement has been approved by the circuit court in all trust matters which by the nature thereof may be turned over to the successor trustee, or successor trustees, and shall have given such security, or made such provision, for discharging all liabilities including all contingent and undisclosed liabilities, if any, of the trust company, as may be required by the state director of finance.