Alabama Code Title 5. Banks and Financial Institutions § 5-13B-2

(a) “Acquire” means:

(b) “Affiliate” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(k) of the Bank Holding Company Act.

(c) “Alabama bank” means a bank that is:

(d) “Alabama bank holding company” means a bank holding company that:

(e) “Bank” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(c) of the Bank Holding Company Act.

(f) “Bank holding company”:

(g) “Bank Holding Company Act” means the federal Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended, 12 U.S.C. §§ 1841 et seq.

(h) “Bank supervisory agency” means any of the following:

(i) “Branch” has the same meaning as “domestic branch” defined in Section 3 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act;  however, an automated teller machine shall not constitute a branch.

(j) “Company” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(b) of the Bank Holding Company Act, and includes a bank holding company.

(k) “Control” shall be construed consistently with the provisions of Section 2(a) of the Bank Holding Company Act.

(l) “Deposit” has the meaning set forth in 12 U.S.C. § 1813(l).

(m) “Depository institution” means any institution included for any purpose within the definitions of “insured depository institution” as set forth in 12 U.S.C. § 1813(c)(2) and (3).

(n) “Foreign bank holding company” means a bank holding company that is organized under the laws of a country other than the United States, including any territory or possession thereof.

(o) “Home state regulator” means, with respect to an out-of-state bank holding company, the bank supervisory agency of the state in which such company maintains its principal place of business.

(p) “Out-of-state bank holding company” means:

(q) “Principal place of business” of a bank holding company means the state in which the total deposits of all bank subsidiaries of such company were the greatest on the later of July 1, 1966, or the date on which such company became a bank holding company.

(r) “State” means any state, territory, or other possession of the United States, including the District of Columbia.

(s) “Subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(d) of the Bank Holding Company Act.

(t) “Superintendent” means the Superintendent of Banks then in office and, where appropriate, all of his or her successors and predecessors in office.