Terms Used In Tennessee Code 45-1-122

  • Bank: means any person, as hereinafter defined, doing a banking business subject to the laws of this or any other jurisdiction and, for the purposes of supervision, examination and liquidation, includes industrial investment companies and industrial banks authorized by chapter 5 of this title. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of financial institutions. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, firm, trust, estate, partnership, joint venture, or association. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105

In addition to other remedies provided in this chapter and chapter 2 of this title, the commissioner of financial institutions, in the name of the state, is authorized to institute a quo warranto, or other appropriate proceedings, to vacate and annul the charter of any bank where the bank has done or permitted such act or acts as under the law authorized a vacation of its charter, and no suit shall be instituted by any person to vacate the charter of any bank except by the commissioner.