New Jersey Statutes 17:9A-197.1. Savings bank official immunity
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 17:9A-197.1
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 197 of P.L. 1948, c. 67 (C. 17:9A-197), a savings bank may, by amending its certificate of incorporation in the manner provided in section 198 of P.L. 1948, c. 67 (C. 17:9A-198), provide that a manager or officer shall not be personally liable, or shall be liable only to the extent therein provided, to the savings bank or its depositors for damages for breach of any duty owed to the savings bank or its depositors, except that such provision shall not relieve a manager or officer from liability for an act or omission (a) in breach of such person‘s duty of loyalty to the savings bank or its depositors, (b) not in good faith or involving a knowing violation of law or (c) resulting in receipt by such person of an improper personal benefit. As used in this section, an act or omission in breach of a person’s duty of loyalty means an act or omission which that person knows or believes to be contrary to the best interests of the savings bank or its depositors in connection with a matter in which he has a material conflict of interest.
The Commissioner of Banking shall approve such amendment unless he finds that it unreasonably affects the interests of the depositors.
L. 1987, c. 35, s. 11; amended 1989,c.17,s.8.