Every state banking association has the power to purchase, hold, and convey other real estate as herein provided, and not otherwise:

Terms Used In North Dakota Code 6-03-08

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Bank: means any national bank, national banking association, corporation, state bank, state banking association, or savings bank, whether organized under the laws of this state or of the United States, engaged in the business of banking. See North Dakota Code 6-01-02
  • Banking: means the business of receiving deposits, making loans, discounting commercial paper, issuing drafts, traveler's checks, and similar instruments, handling and making collections, cashing checks and drafts, and buying and selling exchange. See North Dakota Code 6-01-02
  • board: when used in this title includes the state banking board and the state credit union board. See North Dakota Code 6-01-03
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of financial institutions. See North Dakota Code 6-01-02
  • Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • state banking association: means any corporation organized under the laws of this state covering state banking associations, and all corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, firms, or associations whose business in whole or in part consists of the taking of money on deposit, except national banks, trust companies, and the Bank of North Dakota. See North Dakota Code 6-01-02

1.    Such as is mortgaged to it in good faith by way of security for loans or for debts previously contracted.

2.    Such as is conveyed to it in good faith in satisfaction of debts previously contracted in the course of its dealings.

    3.    Such as it purchases at sales under judgments, decrees, or mortgages held by the association or purchases to secure debts due to it.

Upon transfer to other real estate owned, a current appraisal must be conducted by an individual who is independent of the transaction. Notwithstanding other sections of this chapter, a bank may apply to the commissioner for authority to exchange its interest in real property acquired in satisfaction of a debt previously contracted for an interest in an entity that would dispose of the real property. If the commissioner’s decision with respect to an application is unfavorable, the applicant bank may appeal the decision to the state banking board by filing a notice of appeal with the commissioner within twenty business days after the commissioner has notified the applicant bank of the decision.