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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(a) In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.
(b) “Capital stock” means capital stock issued by a capital stock association.
(c) “Capital stock association” means a savings and loan association that has authority under this title to issue capital stock.
(d) “Claim” means:
(1) A right to payment, whether or not the right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured, or unsecured; or
(2) A right to an equitable remedy for breach of performance if the breach gives rise to a right to payment, whether or not the right to an equitable remedy is reduced to judgment, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, secured, or unsecured.
(e) “Deposit association” means a savings and loan association that has savings deposit accounts.
(f) “Division Director” means the Commissioner.
(g) “Employee” does not include a controlling person, director, or officer of an association.
(h) “Federal association” means:
(1) A savings and loan association that is incorporated under the laws of the United States; or
(2) A federal savings bank that operates under the jurisdiction of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and whose accounts are insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation.
(i) “Fund Director” means the Director of the State of Maryland Deposit Insurance Fund Corporation.
(j) “Mutual association” means a savings and loan association that does not have authority to issue capital stock.
(k) “Net worth certificate” means a capital instrument issued by a savings and loan association for the purpose of increasing or maintaining the capital of the association.
(l)(1) “Savings account” means that part of the savings liability of a savings and loan association that is credited to the account of the holder of the account.
(2) “Savings account” includes a savings certificate account or any other fixed term account.
(m) “Savings and loan association” has the meaning stated in § 8-101 of this article.
(n) “Savings deposit account” means a savings account that:
(1) Is a liability of a deposit association to the extent of its withdrawal value; and
(2) Is not a share interest in a savings and loan association.
(o) “Savings liability” means the aggregate amount of savings accounts of savings account holders, including earnings credited to the accounts.
(p) “Savings share account” means a savings account that is a share interest in a savings and loan association.
(q) “Secretary” has the meaning stated in § 8-101 of this article.
(r) “Statutory merger” means the transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of a corporation which transfer is:
(1) Subject to all or substantially all of the liabilities of the transferor; and
(2) Followed by the dissolution of the transferor corporation.
(s) “Unsecured days funds” has the meaning stated in the rules and regulations of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board that apply to savings associations insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Maryland Code, Financial Institutions § 9-101 - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/md/financial-institutions/md-code-fin-inst-sect-9-101/
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