Terms Used In South Carolina Code 34-3-250

  • bank: as used in this title must be construed to include all institutions doing any kind of banking business whose deposits are eligible for insurance by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, excluding a savings bank, and "building and loan association" as used in this title must be construed to include a mutual or stock savings association, savings and loan association, or savings bank and all other institutions doing any kind of building and loan business whose deposits are eligible for insurance by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. See South Carolina Code 34-1-10
Any bank, banking association or trust company chartered and engaged in the banking business under the laws of this State may associate itself with any national reserve association of the United States or any branch thereof under any law enacted by the Congress of the United States and may invest such part of its capital or surplus therein as may be necessary to acquire and preserve its membership in such association.