Succession to trust business of affiliated financial institution; resolution; filing; effective date
Ind. Code § 28-2-14-18
in effectSec. 18. (a) As used in this section, "affiliate" includes the following:
(1) A financial institution.
(2) Any company that controls a financial institution and any other company that is controlled by the company that controls a financial institution.
(3) A bank subsidiary of a financial institution.
(4) Any company:
(A) that is controlled directly or indirectly, by a trust or otherwise, by or for the benefit of shareholders who beneficially or otherwise control, directly or indirectly, by trust or otherwise, the financial institution or any company that controls the financial institution; or
(B) in which a majority of the company's directors or trustees constitute a majority of the persons holding any such office with a financial institution or any company that controls the financial institution.
(5) Any:
(A) company, including a real estate investment trust, that is sponsored and advised on a contractual basis by the financial institution or any subsidiary or affiliate of the financial institution; or
(B) investment company with respect to which a financial institution or any affiliate of a financial institution is an investment advisor (as defined in section 2(a)(20) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a)).
(6) Any company that the department determines by regulation or order to have a relationship with the financial institution or any subsidiary or affiliate of the financial institution, such that covered transactions by the financial institution or its subsidiary with that company may be affected by the relationship to the detriment of the financial institution or its subsidiary.
(b) The term "affiliate" does not include the following:
(1) Any company engaged solely in holding the premises of the financial institution.
(2) Any company engaged solely in conducting a safe deposit business.
(3) Any company engaged solely in holding obligations of the United States or its agencies or obligations fully guaranteed by the United States or its agencies as to principal and interest.
(4) Any company whose control of a financial institution results from the exercise of rights arising from a bona fide debt previously contracted for. The exemption provided by this subdivision applies only:
(A) for the period specifically authorized under applicable state or federal law or regulation; or
(B) in the absence of a law or regulation described in clause (A), for a period of two (2) years after:
(i) the date of the company's exercise of the rights arising from the debt; or
(ii) the effective date of the company's action under item (i);
whichever is later.
Upon application by the company or the financial institution, the department may authorize, for good cause shown, an extension of the period of exemption allowed under this subdivision. Extensions granted by the department under this subdivision may not exceed three (3) years in total.
(c) As used in this section, "financial institution" means any of the following that is organized or reorganized under the laws of the United States or any state (as defined in IC 28-2-17-19) and that has been granted fiduciary powers:
(1) A bank.
(2) A bank and trust company.
(3) A savings bank.
(4) A trust company.
(5) A corporate fiduciary.
(6) An industrial loan and investment company.
(7) A savings association.
(8) A bank of discount and deposit.
(9) A loan and trust and safe deposit company.
(d) As used in this section, "trust business" means all rights, powers, and duties granted to or imposed on a financial institution in the exercise of its fiduciary powers, including the following:
(1) The authority to act as:
(A) the administrator, coadministrator, executor, coexecutor, trustee, or cotrustee of or in respect to any estate or trust;
(B) the guardian of any person or estate that is being administered under Indiana law;
(C) an agent;
(D) a custodian (including custodian under the Indiana Uniform Gifts to Minors Act); or
(E) an attorney-in-fact.
The authority conferred by this subdivision includes any other duties, powers, and appointments regularly administered by, granted to, or conferred upon trust departments established and maintained under IC 28-1-12-3(a) or the departments of national banks and other financial institutions that are authorized to exercise fiduciary powers.
(2) All rights, powers, and duties arising from having been named or designated in any capacity described in subdivision (1) in any will or other writing whenever executed, including wills and other writings naming the predecessor affiliate that are executed after the effective date of the resolution anticipated by subsection (e).
(e) The board of directors of any bank holding company or other company that controls a financial institution may adopt a resolution to cause an affiliated financial institution to succeed to part or all of the trust business of another affiliate it controls. If a financial institution is not controlled by another company, the board of directors of the financial institution may adopt a resolution to cause part or all of its trust business to succeed to an affiliated financial institution. If the board of directors adopts such a resolution and files a certified copy of it as required by subsection (f), the successor affiliate becomes successor fiduciary in place of the predecessor affiliate with all the rights, powers, and duties that were granted to or imposed on the predecessor affiliate. The rights, powers, and duties vest in the successor affiliate, after the taking effect of the succession, irrespective of the date upon which the relation is established, and irrespective of the date of any related written agreement establishing the relationship or of the date of the death of any decedent whose estate is being so administered. Nothing done in connection with the succession effects a renunciation or revocation of any letters of administration or letters testamentary pertaining to the relation, nor does it effect a removal or resignation from the executorship, trusteeship, or other fiduciary relationship.
(f) If a resolution is adopted under this section, the board of directors shall file a certified copy of the resolution with the department. The board of directors may file the copy in person or by certified mail. The effective date of the succession to part or all of the trust business, as set forth in the resolution, is the date provided in the resolution, which must not be before or more than thirty (30) days after the date of filing of the resolution. If the resolution provides no effective date, the effective date is the date of filing.
As added by P.L.280-1987, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.164-1988, SEC.7; P.L.257-1989, SEC.2; P.L.42-1993, SEC.66; P.L.262-1995, SEC.57; P.L.11-1998, SEC.7; P.L.213-2007, SEC.55; P.L.217-2007, SEC.53; P.L.90-2008, SEC.35.
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