93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB5194

 

Introduced 02/05/04, by Joseph M. Lyons

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
205 ILCS 5/2   from Ch. 17, par. 302
205 ILCS 5/5   from Ch. 17, par. 311

    Amends the Illinois Banking Act. Defines "federally insured depository institution" to mean a bank that is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or other instrumentality of or corporation chartered by the United States that is supported by the full faith and credit of the United States government. Modifies the general corporate powers of banks organized under or subject to the Act. Allows banks to offer any product or service that is at the time authorized or permitted to any federally insured depository institution by applicable law subject to the same limitations and restrictions that are applicable to the federally insured depository institution for the product or service by such applicable law. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning financial regulation.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Illinois Banking Act is amended by changing
5 Sections 2 and 5 as follows:
 
6     (205 ILCS 5/2)  (from Ch. 17, par. 302)
7     Sec. 2. General definitions. In this Act, unless the
8 context otherwise requires, the following words and phrases
9 shall have the following meanings:
10     "Accommodation party" shall have the meaning ascribed to
11 that term in Section 3-419 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
12     "Action" in the sense of a judicial proceeding includes
13 recoupments, counterclaims, set-off, and any other proceeding
14 in which rights are determined.
15     "Affiliate facility" of a bank means a main banking
16 premises or branch of another commonly owned bank. The main
17 banking premises or any branch of a bank may be an "affiliate
18 facility" with respect to one or more other commonly owned
19 banks.
20     "Appropriate federal banking agency" means the Federal
21 Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Bank of
22 Chicago, or the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, as
23 determined by federal law.
24     "Bank" means any person doing a banking business whether
25 subject to the laws of this or any other jurisdiction.
26     A "banking house", "branch", "branch bank" or "branch
27 office" shall mean any place of business of a bank at which
28 deposits are received, checks paid, or loans made, but shall
29 not include any place at which only records thereof are made,
30 posted, or kept. A place of business at which deposits are
31 received, checks paid, or loans made shall not be deemed to be
32 a branch, branch bank, or branch office if the place of

 

 

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1 business is adjacent to and connected with the main banking
2 premises, or if it is separated from the main banking premises
3 by not more than an alley; provided always that (i) if the
4 place of business is separated by an alley from the main
5 banking premises there is a connection between the two by
6 public or private way or by subterranean or overhead passage,
7 and (ii) if the place of business is in a building not wholly
8 occupied by the bank, the place of business shall not be within
9 any office or room in which any other business or service of
10 any kind or nature other than the business of the bank is
11 conducted or carried on. A place of business at which deposits
12 are received, checks paid, or loans made shall not be deemed to
13 be a branch, branch bank, or branch office (i) of any bank if
14 the place is a terminal established and maintained in
15 accordance with paragraph (17) of Section 5 of this Act, or
16 (ii) of a commonly owned bank by virtue of transactions
17 conducted at that place on behalf of the other commonly owned
18 bank under paragraph (23) of Section 5 of this Act if the place
19 is an affiliate facility with respect to the other bank.
20     "Branch of an out-of-state bank" means a branch established
21 or maintained in Illinois by an out-of-state bank as a result
22 of a merger between an Illinois bank and the out-of-state bank
23 that occurs on or after May 31, 1997, or any branch established
24 by the out-of-state bank following the merger.
25     "Bylaws" means the bylaws of a bank that are adopted by the
26 bank's board of directors or shareholders for the regulation
27 and management of the bank's affairs. If the bank operates as a
28 limited liability company, however, "bylaws" means the
29 operating agreement of the bank.
30     "Call report fee" means the fee to be paid to the
31 Commissioner by each State bank pursuant to paragraph (a) of
32 subsection (3) of Section 48 of this Act.
33     "Capital" includes the aggregate of outstanding capital
34 stock and preferred stock.
35     "Cash flow reserve account" means the account within the
36 books and records of the Commissioner of Banks and Real Estate

 

 

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1 used to record funds designated to maintain a reasonable Bank
2 and Trust Company Fund operating balance to meet agency
3 obligations on a timely basis.
4     "Charter" includes the original charter and all amendments
5 thereto and articles of merger or consolidation.
6     "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Banks and Real
7 Estate or a person authorized by the Commissioner, the Office
8 of Banks and Real Estate Act, or this Act to act in the
9 Commissioner's stead.
10     "Commonly owned banks" means 2 or more banks that each
11 qualify as a bank subsidiary of the same bank holding company
12 pursuant to Section 18 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act;
13 "commonly owned bank" refers to one of a group of commonly
14 owned banks but only with respect to one or more of the other
15 banks in the same group.
16     "Community" means a city, village, or incorporated town and
17 also includes the area served by the banking offices of a bank,
18 but need not be limited or expanded to conform to the
19 geographic boundaries of units of local government.
20     "Company" means a corporation, limited liability company,
21 partnership, business trust, association, or similar
22 organization and, unless specifically excluded, includes a
23 "State bank" and a "bank".
24     "Consolidating bank" means a party to a consolidation.
25     "Consolidation" takes place when 2 or more banks, or a
26 trust company and a bank, are extinguished and by the same
27 process a new bank is created, taking over the assets and
28 assuming the liabilities of the banks or trust company passing
29 out of existence.
30     "Continuing bank" means a merging bank, the charter of
31 which becomes the charter of the resulting bank.
32     "Converting bank" means a State bank converting to become a
33 national bank, or a national bank converting to become a State
34 bank.
35     "Converting trust company" means a trust company
36 converting to become a State bank.

 

 

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1     "Court" means a court of competent jurisdiction.
2     "Director" means a member of the board of directors of a
3 bank. In the case of a manager-managed limited liability
4 company, however, "director" means a manager of the bank and,
5 in the case of a member-managed limited liability company,
6 "director" means a member of the bank. The term "director" does
7 not include an advisory director, honorary director, director
8 emeritus, or similar person, unless the person is otherwise
9 performing functions similar to those of a member of the board
10 of directors.
11     "Eligible depository institution" means an insured savings
12 association that is in default, an insured savings association
13 that is in danger of default, a State or national bank that is
14 in default or a State or national bank that is in danger of
15 default, as those terms are defined in this Section, or a new
16 bank as that term defined in Section 11(m) of the Federal
17 Deposit Insurance Act or a bridge bank as that term is defined
18 in Section 11(n) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act or a new
19 federal savings association authorized under Section
20 11(d)(2)(f) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.
21     "Federally insured depository institution" means a bank
22 that is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or
23 other instrumentality of or corporation chartered by the United
24 States that is supported by the full faith and credit of the
25 United States government.
26     "Fiduciary" means trustee, agent, executor, administrator,
27 committee, guardian for a minor or for a person under legal
28 disability, receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, assignee for
29 creditors, or any holder of similar position of trust.
30     "Financial institution" means a bank, savings and loan
31 association, credit union, or any licensee under the Consumer
32 Installment Loan Act or the Sales Finance Agency Act and, for
33 purposes of Section 48.3, any proprietary network, funds
34 transfer corporation, or other entity providing electronic
35 funds transfer services, or any corporate fiduciary, its
36 subsidiaries, affiliates, parent company, or contractual

 

 

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1 service provider that is examined by the Commissioner.
2     "Foundation" means the Illinois Bank Examiners' Education
3 Foundation.
4     "General obligation" means a bond, note, debenture,
5 security, or other instrument evidencing an obligation of the
6 government entity that is the issuer that is supported by the
7 full available resources of the issuer, the principal and
8 interest of which is payable in whole or in part by taxation.
9     "Guarantee" means an undertaking or promise to answer for
10 payment of another's debt or performance of another's duty,
11 liability, or obligation whether "payment guaranteed" or
12 "collection guaranteed".
13     "In danger of default" means a State or national bank, a
14 federally chartered insured savings association or an Illinois
15 state chartered insured savings association with respect to
16 which the Commissioner or the appropriate federal banking
17 agency has advised the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
18 that:
19         (1) in the opinion of the Commissioner or the
20     appropriate federal banking agency,
21             (A) the State or national bank or insured savings
22         association is not likely to be able to meet the
23         demands of the State or national bank's or savings
24         association's obligations in the normal course of
25         business; and
26             (B) there is no reasonable prospect that the State
27         or national bank or insured savings association will be
28         able to meet those demands or pay those obligations
29         without federal assistance; or
30         (2) in the opinion of the Commissioner or the
31     appropriate federal banking agency,
32             (A) the State or national bank or insured savings
33         association has incurred or is likely to incur losses
34         that will deplete all or substantially all of its
35         capital; and
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1         capital of the State or national bank or insured
2         savings association will be replenished without
3         federal assistance.
4     "In default" means, with respect to a State or national
5 bank or an insured savings association, any adjudication or
6 other official determination by any court of competent
7 jurisdiction, the Commissioner, the appropriate federal
8 banking agency, or other public authority pursuant to which a
9 conservator, receiver, or other legal custodian is appointed
10 for a State or national bank or an insured savings association.
11     "Insured savings association" means any federal savings
12 association chartered under Section 5 of the federal Home
13 Owners' Loan Act and any State savings association chartered
14 under the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985 or a
15 predecessor Illinois statute, the deposits of which are insured
16 by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The term also
17 includes a savings bank organized or operating under the
18 Savings Bank Act.
19     "Insured savings association in recovery" means an insured
20 savings association that is not an eligible depository
21 institution and that does not meet the minimum capital
22 requirements applicable with respect to the insured savings
23 association.
24     "Issuer" means for purposes of Section 33 every person who
25 shall have issued or proposed to issue any security; except
26 that (1) with respect to certificates of deposit, voting trust
27 certificates, collateral-trust certificates, and certificates
28 of interest or shares in an unincorporated investment trust not
29 having a board of directors (or persons performing similar
30 functions), "issuer" means the person or persons performing the
31 acts and assuming the duties of depositor or manager pursuant
32 to the provisions of the trust, agreement, or instrument under
33 which the securities are issued; (2) with respect to trusts
34 other than those specified in clause (1) above, where the
35 trustee is a corporation authorized to accept and execute
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1 of the trust and any manager or committee charged with the
2 general direction of the affairs of the trust pursuant to the
3 provisions of the agreement or instrument creating the trust;
4 and (3) with respect to equipment trust certificates or like
5 securities, "issuer" means the person to whom the equipment or
6 property is or is to be leased or conditionally sold.
7     "Letter of credit" and "customer" shall have the meanings
8 ascribed to those terms in Section 5-102 of the Uniform
9 Commercial Code.
10     "Main banking premises" means the location that is
11 designated in a bank's charter as its main office.
12     "Maker or obligor" means for purposes of Section 33 the
13 issuer of a security, the promisor in a debenture or other debt
14 security, or the mortgagor or grantor of a trust deed or
15 similar conveyance of a security interest in real or personal
16 property.
17     "Merged bank" means a merging bank that is not the
18 continuing, resulting, or surviving bank in a consolidation or
19 merger.
20     "Merger" includes consolidation.
21     "Merging bank" means a party to a bank merger.
22     "Merging trust company" means a trust company party to a
23 merger with a State bank.
24     "Mid-tier bank holding company" means a corporation that
25 (a) owns 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of each
26 class of stock of a State bank, (b) has no other subsidiaries,
27 and (c) 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of the
28 corporation are owned by a parent bank holding company.
29     "Municipality" means any municipality, political
30 subdivision, school district, taxing district, or agency.
31     "National bank" means a national banking association
32 located in this State and after May 31, 1997, means a national
33 banking association without regard to its location.
34     "Out-of-state bank" means a bank chartered under the laws
35 of a state other than Illinois, a territory of the United
36 States, or the District of Columbia.

 

 

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1     "Parent bank holding company" means a corporation that is a
2 bank holding company as that term is defined in the Illinois
3 Bank Holding Company Act of 1957 and owns 100% of the issued
4 and outstanding shares of a mid-tier bank holding company.
5     "Person" means an individual, corporation, limited
6 liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust, estate,
7 or unincorporated association.
8     "Public agency" means the State of Illinois, the various
9 counties, townships, cities, towns, villages, school
10 districts, educational service regions, special road
11 districts, public water supply districts, fire protection
12 districts, drainage districts, levee districts, sewer
13 districts, housing authorities, the Illinois Bank Examiners'
14 Education Foundation, the Chicago Park District, and all other
15 political corporations or subdivisions of the State of
16 Illinois, whether now or hereafter created, whether herein
17 specifically mentioned or not, and shall also include any other
18 state or any political corporation or subdivision of another
19 state.
20     "Public funds" or "public money" means current operating
21 funds, special funds, interest and sinking funds, and funds of
22 any kind or character belonging to, in the custody of, or
23 subject to the control or regulation of the United States or a
24 public agency. "Public funds" or "public money" shall include
25 funds held by any of the officers, agents, or employees of the
26 United States or of a public agency in the course of their
27 official duties and, with respect to public money of the United
28 States, shall include Postal Savings funds.
29     "Published" means, unless the context requires otherwise,
30 the publishing of the notice or instrument referred to in some
31 newspaper of general circulation in the community in which the
32 bank is located at least once each week for 3 successive weeks.
33 Publishing shall be accomplished by, and at the expense of, the
34 bank required to publish. Where publishing is required, the
35 bank shall submit to the Commissioner that evidence of the
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1     "Qualified financial contract" means any security
2 contract, commodity contract, forward contract, including spot
3 and forward foreign exchange contracts, repurchase agreement,
4 swap agreement, and any similar agreement, any option to enter
5 into any such agreement, including any combination of the
6 foregoing, and any master agreement for such agreements. A
7 master agreement, together with all supplements thereto, shall
8 be treated as one qualified financial contract. The contract,
9 option, agreement, or combination of contracts, options, or
10 agreements shall be reflected upon the books, accounts, or
11 records of the bank, or a party to the contract shall provide
12 documentary evidence of such agreement.
13     "Recorded" means the filing or recording of the notice or
14 instrument referred to in the office of the Recorder of the
15 county wherein the bank is located.
16     "Resulting bank" means the bank resulting from a merger or
17 conversion.
18     "Securities" means stocks, bonds, debentures, notes, or
19 other similar obligations.
20     "Stand-by letter of credit" means a letter of credit under
21 which drafts are payable upon the condition the customer has
22 defaulted in performance of a duty, liability, or obligation.
23     "State bank" means any banking corporation that has a
24 banking charter issued by the Commissioner under this Act.
25     "State Banking Board" means the State Banking Board of
26 Illinois.
27     "Subsidiary" with respect to a specified company means a
28 company that is controlled by the specified company. For
29 purposes of paragraphs (8) and (12) of Section 5 of this Act,
30 "control" means the exercise of operational or managerial
31 control of a corporation by the bank, either alone or together
32 with other affiliates of the bank.
33     "Surplus" means the aggregate of (i) amounts paid in excess
34 of the par value of capital stock and preferred stock; (ii)
35 amounts contributed other than for capital stock and preferred
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1 transferred from undivided profits.
2     "Tier 1 Capital" and "Tier 2 Capital" have the meanings
3 assigned to those terms in regulations promulgated for the
4 appropriate federal banking agency of a state bank, as those
5 regulations are now or hereafter amended.
6     "Trust company" means a limited liability company or
7 corporation incorporated in this State for the purpose of
8 accepting and executing trusts.
9     "Undivided profits" means undistributed earnings less
10 discretionary transfers to surplus.
11     "Unimpaired capital and unimpaired surplus", for the
12 purposes of paragraph (21) of Section 5 and Sections 32, 33,
13 34, 35.1, 35.2, and 47 of this Act means the sum of the state
14 bank's Tier 1 Capital and Tier 2 Capital plus such other
15 shareholder equity as may be included by regulation of the
16 Commissioner. Unimpaired capital and unimpaired surplus shall
17 be calculated on the basis of the date of the last quarterly
18 call report filed with the Commissioner preceding the date of
19 the transaction for which the calculation is made, provided
20 that: (i) when a material event occurs after the date of the
21 last quarterly call report filed with the Commissioner that
22 reduces or increases the bank's unimpaired capital and
23 unimpaired surplus by 10% or more, then the unimpaired capital
24 and unimpaired surplus shall be calculated from the date of the
25 material event for a transaction conducted after the date of
26 the material event; and (ii) if the Commissioner determines for
27 safety and soundness reasons that a state bank should calculate
28 unimpaired capital and unimpaired surplus more frequently than
29 provided by this paragraph, the Commissioner may by written
30 notice direct the bank to calculate unimpaired capital and
31 unimpaired surplus at a more frequent interval. In the case of
32 a state bank newly chartered under Section 13 or a state bank
33 resulting from a merger, consolidation, or conversion under
34 Sections 21 through 26 for which no preceding quarterly call
35 report has been filed with the Commissioner, unimpaired capital
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1 calendar quarter on the basis of the effective date of the
2 charter, merger, consolidation, or conversion.
3 (Source: P.A. 92-483, eff. 8-23-01; 93-561, eff. 1-1-04.)
 
4     (205 ILCS 5/5)  (from Ch. 17, par. 311)
5     Sec. 5. General corporate powers. A bank organized under
6 this Act or subject hereto shall be a body corporate and
7 politic and shall, without specific mention thereof in the
8 charter, have all the powers conferred by this Act and the
9 following additional general corporate powers:
10     (1) To sue and be sued, complain, and defend in its
11 corporate name.
12     (2) To have a corporate seal, which may be altered at
13 pleasure, and to use the same by causing it or a facsimile
14 thereof to be impressed or affixed or in any manner reproduced,
15 provided that the affixing of a corporate seal to an instrument
16 shall not give the instrument additional force or effect, or
17 change the construction thereof, and the use of a corporate
18 seal is not mandatory.
19     (3) To make, alter, amend, and repeal bylaws, not
20 inconsistent with its charter or with law, for the
21 administration of the affairs of the bank. If this Act does not
22 provide specific guidance in matters of corporate governance,
23 the provisions of the Business Corporation Act of 1983 may be
24 used if so provided in the bylaws, and if the bank is a limited
25 liability company, the provisions of the Limited Liability
26 Company Act shall be used.
27     (4) To elect or appoint and remove officers and agents of
28 the bank and define their duties and fix their compensation.
29     (5) To adopt and operate reasonable bonus plans,
30 profit-sharing plans, stock-bonus plans, stock-option plans,
31 pension plans and similar incentive plans for its directors,
32 officers and employees.
33     (5.1) To manage, operate and administer a fund for the
34 investment of funds by a public agency or agencies, including
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1 The fund for a public agency shall invest in the same type of
2 investments and be subject to the same limitations provided for
3 the investment of public funds. The fund for public agencies
4 shall maintain a separate ledger showing the amount of
5 investment for each public agency in the fund. "Public funds"
6 and "public agency" as used in this Section shall have the
7 meanings ascribed to them in Section 1 of the Public Funds
8 Investment Act.
9     (6) To make reasonable donations for the public welfare or
10 for charitable, scientific, religious or educational purposes.
11     (7) To borrow or incur an obligation; and to pledge its
12 assets:
13         (a) to secure its borrowings, its lease of personal or
14     real property or its other nondeposit obligations;
15         (b) to enable it to act as agent for the sale of
16     obligations of the United States;
17         (c) to secure deposits of public money of the United
18     States, whenever required by the laws of the United States,
19     including without being limited to, revenues and funds the
20     deposit of which is subject to the control or regulation of
21     the United States or any of its officers, agents, or
22     employees and Postal Savings funds;
23         (d) to secure deposits of public money of any state or
24     of any political corporation or subdivision thereof
25     including, without being limited to, revenues and funds the
26     deposit of which is subject to the control or regulation of
27     any state or of any political corporation or subdivisions
28     thereof or of any of their officers, agents, or employees;
29         (e) to secure deposits of money whenever required by
30     the National Bankruptcy Act;
31         (f) (blank); and
32         (g) to secure trust funds commingled with the bank's
33     funds, whether deposited by the bank or an affiliate of the
34     bank, pursuant to Section 2-8 of the Corporate Fiduciary
35     Act.
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1 real estate necessary in or with which to do its banking
2 business, either directly or indirectly through the ownership
3 of all or part of the capital stock, shares or interests in any
4 corporation, association, trust engaged in holding any part or
5 parts or all of the bank premises, engaged in such business and
6 in conducting a safe deposit business in the premises or part
7 of them, or engaged in any activity that the bank is permitted
8 to conduct in a subsidiary pursuant to paragraph (12) of this
9 Section 5.
10     (9) To own, possess, and carry as assets other real estate
11 to which it may obtain title in the collection of its debts or
12 that was formerly used as a part of the bank premises, but
13 title to any real estate except as herein permitted shall not
14 be retained by the bank, either directly or by or through a
15 subsidiary, as permitted by subsection (12) of this Section for
16 a total period of more than 10 years after acquiring title,
17 either directly or indirectly.
18     (10) To do any act, including the acquisition of stock,
19 necessary to obtain insurance of its deposits, or part thereof,
20 and any act necessary to obtain a guaranty, in whole or in
21 part, of any of its loans or investments by the United States
22 or any agency thereof, and any act necessary to sell or
23 otherwise dispose of any of its loans or investments to the
24 United States or any agency thereof, and to acquire and hold
25 membership in the Federal Reserve System.
26     (11) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act or
27 any other law, to do any act and to own, possess, and carry as
28 assets property of the character, including stock, that is at
29 the time authorized or permitted to national banks by an Act of
30 Congress, but subject always to the same limitations and
31 restrictions as are applicable to national banks by the
32 pertinent federal law and subject to applicable provisions of
33 the Financial Institutions Insurance Sales Law.
34     (12) To own, possess, and carry as assets stock of one or
35 more corporations that is, or are, engaged in one or more of
36 the following businesses:

 

 

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1         (a) holding title to and administering assets acquired
2     as a result of the collection or liquidating of loans,
3     investments, or discounts; or
4         (b) holding title to and administering personal
5     property acquired by the bank, directly or indirectly
6     through a subsidiary, for the purpose of leasing to others,
7     provided the lease or leases and the investment of the
8     bank, directly or through a subsidiary, in that personal
9     property otherwise comply with Section 35.1 of this Act; or
10         (c) carrying on or administering any of the activities
11     excepting the receipt of deposits or the payment of checks
12     or other orders for the payment of money in which a bank
13     may engage in carrying on its general banking business;
14     provided, however, that nothing contained in this
15     paragraph (c) shall be deemed to permit a bank organized
16     under this Act or subject hereto to do, either directly or
17     indirectly through any subsidiary, any act, including the
18     making of any loan or investment, or to own, possess, or
19     carry as assets any property that if done by or owned,
20     possessed, or carried by the State bank would be in
21     violation of or prohibited by any provision of this Act.
22     The provisions of this subsection (12) shall not apply to
23 and shall not be deemed to limit the powers of a State bank
24 with respect to the ownership, possession, and carrying of
25 stock that a State bank is permitted to own, possess, or carry
26 under this Act.
27     Any bank intending to establish a subsidiary under this
28 subsection (12) shall give written notice to the Commissioner
29 60 days prior to the subsidiary's commencing of business or, as
30 the case may be, prior to acquiring stock in a corporation that
31 has already commenced business. After receiving the notice, the
32 Commissioner may waive or reduce the balance of the 60 day
33 notice period. The Commissioner may specify the form of the
34 notice and may promulgate rules and regulations to administer
35 this subsection (12).
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1 one year from the date of acceptance, drafts drawn upon it by
2 its customers; and to issue, advise, or confirm letters of
3 credit authorizing the holders thereof to draw drafts upon it
4 or its correspondents.
5     (14) To own and lease personal property acquired by the
6 bank at the request of a prospective lessee and upon the
7 agreement of that person to lease the personal property
8 provided that the lease, the agreement with respect thereto,
9 and the amount of the investment of the bank in the property
10 comply with Section 35.1 of this Act.
11     (15) (a) To establish and maintain, in addition to the main
12     banking premises, branches offering any banking services
13     permitted at the main banking premises of a State bank.
14         (b) To establish and maintain, after May 31, 1997,
15     branches in another state that may conduct any activity in
16     that state that is authorized or permitted for any bank
17     that has a banking charter issued by that state, subject to
18     the same limitations and restrictions that are applicable
19     to banks chartered by that state.
20     (16) (Blank).
21     (17) To establish and maintain terminals, as authorized by
22 the Electronic Fund Transfer Act.
23     (18) To establish and maintain temporary service booths at
24 any International Fair held in this State which is approved by
25 the United States Department of Commerce, for the duration of
26 the international fair for the sole purpose of providing a
27 convenient place for foreign trade customers at the fair to
28 exchange their home countries' currency into United States
29 currency or the converse. This power shall not be construed as
30 establishing a new place or change of location for the bank
31 providing the service booth.
32     (19) To indemnify its officers, directors, employees, and
33 agents, as authorized for corporations under Section 8.75 of
34 the Business Corporation Act of 1983.
35     (20) To own, possess, and carry as assets stock of, or be
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1 association, trust, or other entity formed exclusively for the
2 purpose of providing directors' and officers' liability and
3 bankers' blanket bond insurance or reinsurance to and for the
4 benefit of the stockholders, members, or beneficiaries, or
5 their assets or businesses, or their officers, directors,
6 employees, or agents, and not to or for the benefit of any
7 other person or entity or the public generally.
8     (21) To make debt or equity investments in corporations or
9 projects, whether for profit or not for profit, designed to
10 promote the development of the community and its welfare,
11 provided that the aggregate investment in all of these
12 corporations and in all of these projects does not exceed 10%
13 of the unimpaired capital and unimpaired surplus of the bank
14 and provided that this limitation shall not apply to
15 creditworthy loans by the bank to those corporations or
16 projects. Upon written application to the Commissioner, a bank
17 may make an investment that would, when aggregated with all
18 other such investments, exceed 10% of the unimpaired capital
19 and unimpaired surplus of the bank. The Commissioner may
20 approve the investment if he is of the opinion and finds that
21 the proposed investment will not have a material adverse effect
22 on the safety and soundness of the bank.
23     (22) To own, possess, and carry as assets the stock of a
24 corporation engaged in the ownership or operation of a travel
25 agency or to operate a travel agency as a part of its business.
26     (23) With respect to affiliate facilities:
27         (a) to conduct at affiliate facilities for and on
28     behalf of another commonly owned bank, if so authorized by
29     the other bank, all transactions that the other bank is
30     authorized or permitted to perform; and
31         (b) to authorize a commonly owned bank to conduct for
32     and on behalf of it any of the transactions it is
33     authorized or permitted to perform at one or more affiliate
34     facilities.
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1 transactions specified in this paragraph (23) shall give
2 written notice to the Commissioner at least 30 days before any
3 such transaction is conducted at the affiliate facility.
4     (24) To act as the agent for any fire, life, or other
5 insurance company authorized by the State of Illinois, by
6 soliciting and selling insurance and collecting premiums on
7 policies issued by such company; and to receive for services so
8 rendered such fees or commissions as may be agreed upon between
9 the bank and the insurance company for which it may act as
10 agent; provided, however, that no such bank shall in any case
11 assume or guarantee the payment of any premium on insurance
12 policies issued through its agency by its principal; and
13 provided further, that the bank shall not guarantee the truth
14 of any statement made by an assured in filing his application
15 for insurance.
16     (25) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act or
17 any other law, to offer any product or service that is at the
18 time authorized or permitted to any federally insured savings
19 association or out-of-state bank depository institution by
20 applicable law, but subject always to the same limitations and
21 restrictions that are applicable to the federally insured
22 depository institution for the product or service by such
23 applicable law, provided that powers conferred only by this
24 subsection (25):
25         (a) (blank); shall always be subject to the same
26     limitations and restrictions that are applicable to the
27     insured savings association or out-of-state bank for the
28     product or service by such applicable law;
29         (b) shall be subject to applicable provisions of the
30     Financial Institutions Insurance Sales Law;
31         (c) shall not include the right to own or conduct a
32     real estate brokerage business for which a license would be
33     required under the laws of this State; and
34         (d) (blank); shall not be construed to include the
35     establishment or maintenance of a branch, nor shall they be
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1     branch pursuant to subsection (11).
2         (e) shall be subject to applicable provisions of the
3     High Risk Home Loan Act.
4     Not less than 30 days before engaging in any activity under
5 the authority of this subsection, a bank shall provide written
6 notice to the Commissioner of its intent to engage in the
7 activity. The notice shall indicate the specific federal or
8 state law, rule, regulation, or interpretation the bank intends
9 to use as authority to engage in the activity.
10 (Source: P.A. 92-483, eff. 8-23-01; 92-811, eff. 8-21-02;
11 93-561; eff.1-1-04.)
 
12     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
13 becoming law.