As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of financial institutions;

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 45-3-1502

  • Association: means a capital stock or mutual savings and loan association. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
  • 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 45-3-1502
  • Company: includes a bank, trust company, corporation, partnership, association, business or other trust, or similar business entity. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Good faith: means honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, trust, estate, unincorporated association, company, or corporation organized under the laws of this or any other state, the United States or foreign country. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
  • 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
(2) “Principal place of business” of a mutual savings and loan holding company means the state in which the total deposits of all offices of all subsidiaries are the largest as shown by the most recent reports of condition filed with state or federal regulatory authorities;
(3) “Savings and loan mutual holding company” means any company that, directly or indirectly, or acting in concert with one (1) or more other persons or through one (1) or more subsidiaries, owns, controls, or holds with power to vote, or holds proxies representing more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the voting shares or rights of any association or savings bank or savings and loan holding company or controls in any manner, whether by holding of proxies or otherwise, the election of a majority of the directors of the institution. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no holding company shall be deemed to have control of or over a savings institution or holding company:

(A) By virtue of its ownership or control of shares in a fiduciary capacity arising in the ordinary course of its business;
(B) By virtue of its ownership or control of shares acquired by it in connection with its underwriting of securities that are held only for a period of time that will permit the sale of the shares upon a reasonable basis;
(C) By virtue of its holding any shares as collateral taken in the ordinary course of securing a debt or other obligation;
(D) By virtue of its ownership or control of shares acquired in the ordinary course of collecting a debt or other obligation previously contracted in good faith, until five (5) years after the date acquired; or
(E) By virtue of its voting rights with respect to shares of any savings institution or holding company acquired in the course of a proxy solicitation in the case of a company formed and operated for the sole purpose of participating in a proxy solicitation;
(4) “Subsidiary,” whether of an individual or a company, means any company that is controlled by the person or by a company that is a subsidiary of the person by virtue of this part; and
(5) “Tennessee mutual holding company” means a savings and loan holding company whose principal place of business is in Tennessee and that is not controlled, directly or indirectly, by another savings and loan holding company whose principal place of business is outside Tennessee.
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