Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 45 > Chapter 3 > Part 1 - General Provisions

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• 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
• Branch office: means an office or facility, other than the home office, at which payments on accounts and loans may be accepted and applications for loans may be received, at which accounts may be opened, and loans may be closed, and at which any other authorized business of the association may be transacted. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• Capital stock association: means an association, the ownership of which rests in the holders of shares of capital stock, who may receive dividends on their shares, and who have the sole right to vote on matters affecting the association. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• Code: includes the Tennessee Code and all amendments and revisions to the code and all additions and supplements to the code. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of financial institutions. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• Company: includes a bank, trust company, corporation, partnership, association, business or other trust, or similar business entity. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deposit: means a deposit of money, bonds or other things of value, creating a debtor-creditor relationship. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
• deposit account: means that part of the deposit liability of an association that is credited to the account of the holder. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• Deposit liability: means the aggregate amount of deposit accounts of depositors or members, including interest credited to the accounts, less redemptions and withdrawals. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Federal association: means a savings and loan association operating under the laws and regulations of the United States. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Financial institution: means a thrift institution, commercial bank, or trust company. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• Home: means a structure designed for residential use by not more than four (4) families or a single condominium unit, including common elements pertinent thereto, designed for residential use by one (1) family in a multiple dwelling unit structure or complex, and includes fixtures. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• Home office: means the principal place of business maintained by the association and so designated in its charter, at which all authorized business of the association may be transacted. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• Interest: means that part of the net income, retained earnings, or surplus of an association that is payable to or credited to holders of deposit accounts. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Liquid assets: means :
  (A) Cash on hand. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• Member: means a person holding a deposit account of a mutual association. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mutual association: means an association, the ownership of which rests in members, who receive interest on their deposit accounts, and who have the sole right to vote on all matters affecting the association. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• Net income: means gross revenues for an accounting period, less all interest and expenses paid or incurred, taxes, and losses sustained that have not been charged to any reserve accounts. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• Net worth: means the aggregate of all loan contracts of an association, plus the aggregate value of all other assets of the association, less the aggregate amount of deposit accounts of depositors, including interest credited to the accounts, and less any other liabilities of the association. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• 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.
• operating: means that:
  (A) A charter has been issued to a bank by the United States comptroller of the currency or a certificate of authority has been issued by the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• 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
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Personal representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Real estate loan: means any loan or other obligation secured by a lien on real estate in any state held in fee or in a leasehold extending or renewable automatically for a period of at least ten (10) years beyond the date scheduled for the final principal payment of the loan or obligation, or any transactions out of which a lien or claim is created against the real estate, including, inter alia, the purchase of the real estate in fee by an association and the concurrent or immediate sale thereof on installment contract. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Satellite office: means a facility that is operated ancillary to a home or branch office and that does not have more than one thousand (1,000) square feet of floor space nor more than four (4) teller stations. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• Savings and loan association: includes a building and loan association, a federal or state savings and loan association, a federal savings bank, and any other financial institution, the accounts of which are insured by the federal savings and loan insurance corporation (FSLIC) or any successor of such corporation. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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
• Stockholder: means the holder of one (1) or more shares of any class of capital stock of a capital stock association organized and operating pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• Surplus: means the aggregate amount of the undistributed net income of an association held as undivided profits or unallocated reserves for general corporate purposes, and any paid-in surplus or initial undivided profits held by an association. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• Thrift institution: means an association, a mutual savings bank, a cooperative bank, a homestead association, a credit union, a federal association, a small loan company, and any supervised thrift or residential financing institution of a substantially similar nature as determined by the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Withdrawal value: means the amount paid to an association on a deposit account, plus interest credited thereto, less lawful deductions therefrom, as shown by the books of the association. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105