Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 45 > Chapter 3 > Part 15 - Mutual Savings and Loan Holding Company Act

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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. See Tennessee Code 45-3-1502
• 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
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105