214.54(4)
(4) A savings bank's loans to one borrower to finance the sale of real property acquired in satisfaction of debts may not exceed 50% of the savings bank's capital.
214.54(5)
(5) A loan or extension of credit granted to one person, the proceeds of which are used for the direct benefit of a 2nd person, shall be considered to be a loan or extension of credit to the 2nd person as well as the first person.
214.54(6)
(6) The total liabilities of a partnership, pool, syndicate or joint venture shall include the liabilities of the members of the entity.
214.54(7)
(7) For a loan authorized under
sub. (2), a savings bank shall institute procedures to ensure that collateral fully secures an outstanding loan or extension of credit at all times.
214.54(8)
(8) If collateral values fall below 100% of an outstanding balance of a loan or extension of credit to the extent that the loan or extension of credit does not comply with
subs. (1) and
(2), the savings bank shall bring the loan into conformance within 15 business days unless a judicial proceeding or other extraordinary occurrence prevents the savings bank from taking action.
214.54(9)
(9) This section does not apply to loans or extensions of credit to the United States or its agencies or to this state or its agencies.
214.54 History
History: 1991 a. 221;
1995 a. 27.
214.545
214.545
Rules. The division shall promulgate rules to determine permissible levels of investment and permissible concentrations of assets for savings banks that apply to all lending and investment authority under this subchapter. The rules shall give due regard to capital adequacy, operating income, underwriting standards, risk inherent in the investment or loan, and competitive parity with other financial institutions.
214.545 History
History: 1991 a. 221;
1995 a. 27.
DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS
214.57
214.57
Deposit accounts. A savings bank may establish deposit accounts. Deposit accounts shall be payable without notice, unless the contract of deposit provides otherwise.
214.57 History
History: 1991 a. 221.
214.575
214.575
Deposit accounts subject to liens. 214.575(1)
(1) A deposit account shall be subject to a lien for the payment of charges that may accrue on the account under this chapter.
214.575(2)
(2) A deposit account shall be subject to a debt offset for the debts of the deposit account holder to the savings bank.
214.575(3)
(3) Deposit accounts may not be assessed for any debts or losses of the savings bank.
214.575 History
History: 1991 a. 221.
214.58
214.58
Payment of interest. 214.58(1)(1) The board of directors shall determine the rate and amount of interest to be paid on or credited to deposit accounts. The board of directors may establish reasonable classifications of accounts based on the types of accounts, the length of time accounts are continued in effect, the size of initial deposits into accounts, the minimum balances of accounts required for payment of interest, the frequency and extent of the activity on accounts, or on other classifications the division may approve.
214.58(2)
(2) The board of directors shall determine by resolution the method of calculating the amount of interest on deposit accounts and the date on which interest is to be paid or credited.
214.58 History
History: 1991 a. 221;
1995 a. 27.
214.585
214.585
Holders of deposit accounts. Deposit accounts may be held as follows:
214.585(1)
(1) By an individual in his or her own right, regardless of age, or by 2 or more individuals.
214.585(2)
(2) By a fiduciary if authorized by law.
214.585(3)
(3) By a government or governmental instrumentality if authorized by law.
214.585(5)
(5) In any other form receiving the prior written approval of the division.
214.585 History
History: 1991 a. 221;
1995 a. 27.
214.59
214.59
Prohibited activities. 214.59(1)
(1) A savings bank may not participate, directly or indirectly, in the sale or transfer of any equity or debt security or instrument of an affiliate, its parent savings bank holding company or an affiliate of the savings bank holding company.
214.59(2)
(2) A shareholder, director, officer, employee or agent of the savings bank may not participate, directly or indirectly, in any sale or transfer described in
sub. (1), nor may that person allow any other person to do so at an office of the savings bank or any office of the savings bank's subsidiaries or service corporations.
214.59 History
History: 1991 a. 221.
214.592
214.592
Financially related services tie-ins. In any transaction conducted by a savings bank, a savings bank holding company, or a subsidiary of either with a customer who is also a customer of any other subsidiary of any of them, the customer shall be given a notice in 12-point boldface type in substantially the following form:
NOTICE OF RELATIONSHIP
This company, .... (insert name and address of savings bank, savings bank holding company, or subsidiary), is related to .... (insert name and address of savings bank, savings bank holding company, or subsidiary) of which you are also a customer. You may not be compelled to buy any product or service from either of the above companies or any other related company in order to participate in this transaction.
If you feel that you have been compelled to buy any product or service from either of the above companies or any other related company in order to participate in this transaction, you should contact the management of either of the above companies at either of the above addresses or the division of banking at .... (insert address).
VOLUNTARY CORPORATE CHANGES
214.62
214.62
Merger; adoption of plan. 214.62(1)
(1) A financial institution may merge with a savings bank. The board of directors of the merging financial institution and of the savings bank, by resolution adopted by a vote of at least two-thirds of the members of each board, shall approve the plan of merger.
214.62(2)
(2) The plan of merger shall include all of the following:
214.62(2)(a)
(a) The name of each merging financial institution, the name of the resulting financial institution, the location of the resulting home office and the location of other resulting offices.
214.62(2)(b)
(b) With respect to the resulting financial institution, the amount of capital, surplus, and reserve for operating expenses; the classes and the number of shares of stock, if a stock financial institution; the articles of incorporation and bylaws of the resulting financial institution; and a detailed financial statement showing the assets and liabilities after the proposed merger.
214.62(2)(c)
(c) The method, terms and conditions of effecting the merger, including the manner of converting shares of each merging financial institution into cash, shares of stock or other securities or properties to be received by the stockholders of each merging stock financial institution.
214.62(2)(d)
(d) Provisions governing the manner of disposing of any shares of stock of the resulting financial institution that are not taken by dissenting stockholders of a merging financial institution.
214.62(2)(e)
(e) Other provisions necessary or desirable or that the division requires.
214.62(3)
(3) After approval by the board of directors of each merging financial institution, the merger agreement shall be submitted to the division for approval, together with a certified copy of the authorizing resolution of each board of directors. Before issuing approval, the division may examine the affairs of each merging financial institution and its affiliates and subsidiaries, the expense of which is to be paid by the merging financial institution.
214.62(4)
(4) The division may approve or disapprove the proposed merger agreement. The division may not approve a merger agreement unless the division finds all of the following:
214.62(4)(a)
(a) The resulting savings bank, if any, meets the requirements of this chapter for the formation of a new savings bank.
214.62(4)(b)
(b) The merger agreement is fair to all persons affected.
214.62(4)(c)
(c) The resulting savings bank, if any, will be operated in a safe and sound manner.
214.62(5)
(5) If the division fails to approve a proposed merger, the division shall state the objections in writing and give the merging financial institutions a stated period of time in which to amend the plan of merger.
214.62 History
History: 1991 a. 221;
1995 a. 27,
103.
214.625
214.625
Merger; stockholder vote of approval. If approved by the division, the plan of merger shall be submitted to the stockholders of each merging stock financial institution for approval. A meeting of the stockholders of a savings bank shall be called and held in accordance with
ss. 214.305 and
214.31. The plan is approved if it receives the affirmative vote of the majority of the total votes entitled to be cast by stockholders.
214.625 History
History: 1991 a. 221;
1995 a. 27,
103.
214.63
214.63
Merger; certificate. The executed merger agreement, together, in the case of a stock financial institution, with a certified copy of the minutes of the meeting of stockholders of each merging stock financial institution approving the merger agreement, shall be filed with the division. The division shall issue to the resulting savings bank a certificate of merger, setting forth the name of each merging financial institution, the name of the resulting savings bank and the date on which the division approves the articles of incorporation and bylaws of the resulting savings bank. The merger takes effect on the date of the recording of the certificate or a later date if the certificate provides for a different date. Recording shall be completed in the same manner as required for savings bank articles of incorporation, in each county in which the home office of any of the merging financial institutions was located and in the county in which the home office of the resulting savings bank is located. The certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the merger and of the correctness of the merger proceedings except against this state.
214.63 History
History: 1991 a. 221;
1995 a. 27,
103.
214.635
214.635
Effect of merger. The resulting savings bank shall be considered the same business and corporate entity as each merging financial institution, with all the property, rights, duties and obligations of each merging institution, except as otherwise provided by the articles of incorporation of the resulting savings bank. All liabilities of each of the merging institutions shall be liabilities of the resulting savings bank. All of the rights, franchises and interests of each of the merging institutions in and to every kind of property shall vest automatically in the resulting savings bank. A reference to any of the merging institutions in any writing, whether executed or effective before or after the merger, shall be considered to be a reference to the resulting savings bank if not inconsistent with other provisions of the writing. A pending action or other judicial proceeding to which a merging institution is a party may not be abated or dismissed because of the merger, but may be continued in the same manner as if the merger had not occurred.
214.635 History
History: 1991 a. 221.
214.64
214.64
Merger; expenses. The merging financial institutions shall pay the expenses of any examination made by or at the direction of the division in connection with a proposed merger.
214.64 History
History: 1991 a. 221;
1995 a. 27.
214.645
214.645
Sale of assets. Subject to rules of the division, a savings bank may, in a transaction not in the usual course of business, sell all or substantially all of its assets, with or without its name and goodwill, to another financial institution, in consideration of money, capital or obligations of the purchasing institution. A savings bank may sell an office or facility and equipment subject to rules of the division.
214.645 History
History: 1991 a. 221;
1995 a. 27.
214.65
214.65
Procedure to effect sale of all assets. 214.65(2)(a)(a) The board of directors shall adopt by a two-thirds majority vote of all directors a resolution setting forth the terms of the proposed sale and shall submit the plan to the division for preliminary approval. Upon receipt of approval by the division, a stock savings bank shall submit the plan to a vote of the stockholders at a special or annual meeting.
214.65(2)(b)
(b) The proposed sale is approved by the stockholders if it receives an affirmative vote from a majority of the total number of votes that are entitled to be cast. A proposal for the voluntary liquidation of the savings bank may be submitted to the stockholders at the same meeting or at any later meeting called for that purpose. A certified summary of proceedings setting forth the terms of the proposed sale, the form and timing of the notice given, the vote on the proposal and the total number of votes entitled to be cast shall be filed with the division.
214.65(3)
(3) If the division finds that the deposit insurance corporation has approved the sale, the proposed sale is fair to all members, stockholders, creditors and other persons concerned and provision has been made for the disposition of the remaining assets, if any, of the savings bank, the division shall issue to the savings bank a certificate of authorization for the sale with a copy of the filed report of proceedings attached to the certificate.
214.65(4)
(4) After the savings bank records the certificate of authorization in the same manner as the savings bank's articles of incorporation, the savings bank may complete the sale.
214.65(5)
(5) If the sale includes the name of the savings bank, the purchaser shall have the exclusive right to that name for 5 years.
214.655
214.655
Authority to form interim institution. 214.655(1)
(1) A savings bank may form an interim institution to effect a corporate restructuring, a voluntary corporate change or other transformation that does not in reality create an additional new financial institution, but that moves insured deposits from one financial institution to another pursuant to a change in control, change in method of ownership, merger or other organizational change that results in no new insurable deposits. The interim institution may become or receive the continuing or surviving financial institution or may be a conduit through which an existing financial institution's assets, liabilities, fixtures, personnel, rights and property are passed to effect a corporate change. In connection with formation of an interim institution, an existing savings bank may amend its articles of incorporation and bylaws to remove any depository function and to remove any deposits that would require insurance of accounts by a deposit insurance corporation.
214.655(2)
(2) A savings bank shall apply to the division for authority to form an interim institution. The application shall be made on forms prescribed by the division and shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable $1,000 fee. The division shall promulgate rules governing the formation of, and the standards and supervisory considerations to be applied to, interim institutions. An application shall contain all of the following:
214.655(2)(b)
(b) A copy of all filings required by other regulatory authorities.
214.655(2)(c)
(c) A statement from the savings bank's certified public accountant describing and analyzing the method to effect the transaction.
214.655(2)(d)
(d) A 5-year plan for the resulting financial institution and for any corporate remnant of the original savings bank regarding the disposition, acquisition or expansion of assets; capital enhancement; disposition of earnings and profits; and geographic or other expansion or contraction.
214.655(2)(e)
(e) The purpose of the resulting financial institution.
214.655(2)(f)
(f) Whether deposit accounts will be expanded to require increased insurance of accounts together with copies of the appropriate filings.
214.655(2)(g)
(g) Ownership structure including any contemplated sales of stock of subsidiaries, affiliates or savings bank holding companies, as well as of the resulting financial institution.
214.655(2)(h)
(h) Articles of incorporation and bylaws of the original savings bank, interim institution and resulting financial institution.
214.655 History
History: 1991 a. 221;
1995 a. 27.
214.66
214.66
Conversion of an existing institution to a savings bank. 214.66(1m)(1m)
From savings and loan association or federal savings bank. A savings and loan association organized under
ch. 215, a federal savings and loan association with its home office in this state or a federal savings bank with its home office in this state may become a savings bank by doing all of the following:
214.66(1m)(a)
(a) Applying to the division for authority to organize as a savings bank.
