34.05 Annotation
Sub. (3) contains no substantive changes. However, defined terms are substituted for existing language.
34.05 Annotation
Sub. (4) is repealed. This subsection relates to payments made to the state deposit guarantee fund and penalties based on those payments by any municipality attempting to evade the requirements of ch. 34. This subsection is no longer necessary since the fund is prospectively abolished in this bill. [85 Act 25]
34.06
34.06
Liability of treasurers. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a treasurer who deposits public moneys in any public depository, in compliance with
s. 34.05, is thereby relieved of liability for any loss of public moneys which results from the failure of any public depository to repay to the public depositor the full amount of its deposits thus causing a loss as defined in
s. 34.01 (2).
34.06 History
History: 1983 a. 189 s.
329 (21);
1985 a. 25.
34.06 Annotation
Legislative Council Note, 1985: This section is amended to retain the immunity to liability for treasurers of public depositors who comply with s. 34.05. This section is amended to remove references to bonds or security since this bill amends s. 34.07 to permit a public depositor to require a bond or other security for public deposits. Further, this section is amended to shorten the listing of treasurers by making use of the defined term in s. 34.01 (7). In making use of the term "treasurer", this subsection specifically includes the treasurer (or clerk, in the case of a court) of:
34.06 Annotation
A cooperative educational service agency.
34.06 Annotation
Any court of Wisconsin.
34.06 Annotation
A corporation organized under s. 39.33, by the Wisconsin higher educational aids board, to provide for a guaranteed student loan program.
34.06 Annotation
The housing and economic development authority.
34.06 Annotation
The bodies listed above are included in the definition of "public depositor" in s. 34.01 (4), but are not listed in current s. 34.06. [85 Act 25]
34.07
34.07
Security. A surety bond or other security may be required of or given by any public depository for any public deposits that exceed the amount of deposit insurance provided by an agency of the United States or by the Wisconsin credit union savings insurance corporation and the coverage provided under
s. 34.08 (2).
34.07 History
History: 1985 a. 25.
34.07 Annotation
Legislative Council Note, 1985: This section is amended to provide that a surety bond or other security may be required of or given by a public depository for any public deposits for the amount of deposits that exceeds the deposit insurance for each account and the $400,000 amount for all accounts available under s. 34.08 (2). The amendment removes the prohibition on the use of a bond or other security by a public depository which is seeking public deposits. [85 Act 25]
34.08
34.08
Payment of losses. 34.08(1)(1) Except as provided in
sub. (2), the appropriation in
s. 20.144 (1) (a) shall be used to repay public depositors for losses until the appropriation is exhausted.
34.08(2)
(2) Payments under
sub. (1) shall be made in the order in which satisfactory proofs of loss are received by the division of banking. The payment made to any public depositor for all losses of the public depositor in any individual public depository may not exceed $400,000 above the amount of deposit insurance provided by an agency of the United States or by the Wisconsin credit union savings insurance corporation at the public depository which experienced the loss. Upon a satisfactory proof of loss, the division of banking shall direct the department of administration to draw its warrant payable from the appropriation under
s. 20.144 (1) (a) and the state treasurer shall pay the warrant under
s. 14.58 (4) in favor of the public depositor that has submitted the proof of loss.
34.08(3)
(3) Losses become fixed as of the date of loss. A public depositor experiencing a loss shall, within 60 days of the loss, assign its interest in the deposit, to the extent of the amount paid under this section, to the division of banking. Upon failure to make the assignment, the public depositor shall forfeit its right to payment under this section. Any recovery made by the division of banking under the assignment shall be repaid to the appropriation under
s. 20.144 (1) (a).
34.08 History
History: 1985 a. 25;
1995 a. 27.
34.08 Annotation
Legislative Council Note, 1985: This section is repealed and recreated to prospectively abolish the state deposit guarantee fund. See also the amendment of s. 34.06 and the NOTE following that treatment.
34.08 Annotation
Subs. (1) and (2) provide that the pledge of state general purpose revenues to the existing state deposit guarantee fund in s. 20.124 (1) (a), will be used to repay public depositors for losses until the appropriation is exhausted. Payments are to be made in the order in which satisfactory proofs of loss are received by the commissioner of banking and are limited to no more than $400,000 above the amount of applicable federal deposit insurance or insurance provided by the Wisconsin credit union savings insurance corporation.
34.08 Annotation
Sub. (3) continues the substance of present s. 34.08 (3) by providing that a public depositor must, within 60 days of a loss, assign its interest in the deposit, to the extent of payments made under this section, to the commissioner of banking. Upon the failure to make this assignment, the public depositor loses its right to payment. The subsection also specifically provides that a recovery made by the commissioner of banking under an assignment must be repaid to the treasury for future use under s. 20.124 (1) (a). [85 Act 25]
34.09
34.09
Financial institutions eligible as public depositories. Every federal or state credit union, state bank, federal or state savings and loan association, savings and trust company and federal or state savings bank and every national bank may be designated as a public depository and may receive and hold public deposits, subject to this chapter, if the financial institution has a branch or main office located in this state, complies with this chapter with respect to public deposits and accepts payments made by the state under
s. 16.412. The division of banking has the same powers and duties with regard to making and continuing public deposits in national banks, federal and state credit unions, federal and state savings banks and federal and state savings and loan associations as the powers and duties exercised and performed by the division of banking with regard to public deposits in state banks.
34.09 Annotation
Legislative Council Note, 1985: This section is amended to provide that a public depository is not required to file with the commissioner of banking an agreement that it will pay specified sums to the state deposit guarantee fund. This provision is no longer necessary since the state deposit guarantee fund is prospectively abolished in this bill. Section 34.09 also is amended to remove references to the authority of the commissioner of banking to specify qualifications for, and conditions on, public depositories. The bill removes this authority in the repeal and recreation of s. 34.03.
34.09 Annotation
Also, in s. 34.09 instead of providing that every financial institution in Wisconsin which "complies in all respects as to public deposits with this chapter and which accepts payments made by the state under s. 16.412", the phrase "complies in all respects as to public deposits with this chapter and will accept payments made by the state under s. 16.412" has been substituted. The significance of the change is that financial institutions need not actually accept payments by the state under s. 16.412, in order to be eligible as public depositories. Instead, financial institutions must accept these payments only if made, in order to be eligible as public depositories. [85 Act 25]
34.095
34.095
Certain foreign financial institutions ineligible as public depositories. Whenever the ownership, control or power to vote a majority interest in the stock of any state or national bank, savings bank or savings and loan association doing business in Wisconsin is held or in any manner exercised by any foreign corporation, association or trust, which has not filed its articles of incorporation and obtained authority to do business in this state as provided in
ss. 180.1501 and
180.1503 to
180.1507, such bank, savings bank or savings and loan association shall not be qualified to act as a public depository for any public moneys, nor as a depository for reserve funds of state banks until
ss. 180.1501 and
180.1503 to
180.1507 are complied with by the foreign corporation, association or trust.
34.10
34.10
Reorganization and stabilization of financial institutions. Whenever the office of credit unions, administrator of federal credit unions, U.S. comptroller of the currency, federal home loan bank board, U.S. office of thrift supervision, federal deposit insurance corporation, resolution trust corporation, division of banking or division of savings and loan has taken charge of a credit union, bank, savings bank or savings and loan association with a view of restoring its solvency, pursuant to law, or with a view of stabilizing and readjusting the structure of any national or state credit union, bank, savings bank or savings and loan association located in this state, and has approved a reorganization plan or a stabilization and readjustment agreement entered into between the credit union, bank, savings bank or savings and loan association and depositors and unsecured creditors, or when a credit union, bank, savings bank or savings and loan association, with the approval of the office of credit unions, administrator of federal credit unions, U.S. comptroller of the currency, federal home loan bank board, U.S. office of thrift supervision, federal deposit insurance corporation, resolution trust corporation, division of banking or division of savings and loan proposes to sell its assets to another credit union, bank, savings bank or savings and loan association which agrees to assume a part or all of the deposit liability of such selling credit union, bank, savings bank or savings and loan association and to pay the same on a deferred payment basis, the governing board of the public depositor may, on the approval of the division of banking, join in the execution of any reorganization plan, or any stabilization and readjustment agreement, or any depositor's agreement relative to a proposed sale of assets if, in its judgment and that of the division of banking, the reorganization plan or stabilization and readjustment agreement or proposed sale of assets is in the best interest of all persons concerned. The joining in any reorganization plan, or any stabilization and readjustment agreement, or any proposed sale of assets which meets the approval of the division of banking does not waive any rights under this chapter.
34.105
34.105
Withdrawal of public funds. 34.105(1)
(1) Withdrawal or disbursement by a treasurer of any county, city, village, town, school district or cooperative educational service agency of moneys deposited in a public depository shall be made as provided by
s. 66.042 (1) to
(5). "Treasurer" as used in this subsection means only the elected, appointed or acting official treasurer of a county, city, village, town, school district or cooperative educational service agency and does not include all of the other persons within the definition of that term in
s. 34.01 (7). This section does not affect
s. 67.10 (2).
34.105(2)
(2) Withdrawal or disbursement of moneys deposited in a public depository by treasurers as defined in
s. 34.01 (7), except those mentioned in
sub. (1) shall be as provided in
s. 66.042 (6).
34.105 History
History: 1979 c. 301.
34.11
34.11
Penalties. Any person who wilfully violates
ss. 34.01 to
34.10, or any orders or rules promulgated by the division of banking under said sections, shall for each such offense be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both.
34.11 History
History: 1995 a. 27.
