Washington Code 30B.53.005 – Definitions
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Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.
Terms Used In Washington Code 30B.53.005
- Company: includes a bank, trust company, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, business trust, or another trust. See Washington Code 30B.04.005
- Director: means the director of the Washington state department of financial institutions. See Washington Code 30B.04.005
- Person: means an individual, a company, or any other legal entity. See Washington Code 30B.04.005
- State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, a territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands. See Washington Code 30B.04.005
- State trust company: means a corporation or a limited liability company organized or reorganized under this title, including a trust company organized under the laws of Washington state before January 5, 2015. See Washington Code 30B.04.005
- Trust company: means a state trust company or any other company chartered to act as a fiduciary that is neither a depository institution nor a foreign bank. See Washington Code 30B.04.005
(1) “Acquiring person” means a person acquiring or seeking to acquire control of a state trust company, directly or indirectly.
(2) “Control,” “controls,” “controlled,” and “controlling” mean:
(a) The ownership of or ability or power to vote, directly, acting through one or more other persons, or otherwise indirectly, twenty-five percent or more of the outstanding shares of a class of voting securities of a state trust company or other company;
(b) The ability to control the election of a majority of the board of a state trust company or other company;
(c) The power to exercise, directly or indirectly, a controlling influence over the management or policies of the state trust company or other company as determined by the director after notice and an opportunity for hearing; or
(d) The conditioning of the transfer of twenty-five percent or more of the outstanding shares or participation shares of a class of voting securities of a state trust company on the transfer of twenty-five percent or more of the outstanding shares of a class of voting securities of another state trust company or other company.
(3) “Merger” includes consolidation.
(4) “Merging trust company” means a party to a merger.
(5) “Resulting trust company” means the trust company resulting from a merger.