(A) In addition to the powers granted in this chapter, but subject to rules or regulations that the board prescribes, a state savings bank incorporated or operated under this chapter may:

(1) with prior board notification, establish off the premises of a principal office or branch, a customer communications terminal, point of sale terminal, automated teller machine, automated or other direct or remote information processing device or machine, whether manned or unmanned, through or by means of which funds or information relating to a financial service or transaction rendered to the public is stored and transmitted, instantaneously or otherwise to or from a state savings bank terminal or terminals controlled or used by or with other parties. The establishment and use of a device or machine does not constitute a branch office, and the capital requirements and standards for approval of a branch office as provided in the statutes and regulations are not applicable to the establishment of an off-premises terminal, device, or machine. A state savings bank, through mutual consent, may share on-premises, unmanned, automated teller machines, and cash dispensers;

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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 34-30-1440

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • 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
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

(2) issue credit cards, extend credit in connection with them, and otherwise engage in or participate in credit card operations;

(3) with prior board approval, act as a trustee, executor, board, guardian, or in another fiduciary capacity;

(4) become a member of a clearing house association and pledge assets required for its qualification;

(5) with the approval of the Commissioner of Banking, capital certificates may be issued by state-chartered savings banks and sold directly to subscribers or through underwriters, and the certificates constitute part of the general reserve and net worth of the issuing state savings bank, provided such certificates:

(a) are subordinate to all savings accounts, savings certificates, and debt obligations;

(b) constitute a claim in liquidation on the general reserves, surplus, and undivided profits of the state savings bank remaining after the payment of all savings accounts, savings certificates, and debt obligations;

(c) are entitled to the payment of dividends; and

(d) may have a fixed or variable dividend rate.

(6) service loans and investments for others.

(B) With the approval of the Commissioner of Banking, a state savings bank may issue capital notes, bonds, debentures, or other obligations or securities.