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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 45-3-514

  • Association: means a capital stock or mutual savings and loan association. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deposit: means a deposit of money, bonds or other things of value, creating a debtor-creditor relationship. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
  • Depositor: means the holder of a deposit account in an association. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Executor: includes an administrator, where the subject matter applies to an administrator. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, trust, estate, unincorporated association, company, or corporation organized under the laws of this or any other state, the United States or foreign country. See Tennessee Code 45-3-104
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(1) Notwithstanding § 30-2-317, where no executor or administrator of a deceased depositor has qualified and given notice of the person‘s qualification to the association, it may in its discretion and at any time after thirty (30) days from the death of the depositor pay out of all accounts or contents of safe deposit boxes maintained with it by the depositor in an individual capacity all sums that do not exceed fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) in the aggregate:

(A) To the executor named in any will known to the association; or
(B) In the absence of knowledge of any purported will naming a surviving executor to:

(i) A creditor for expenses of the funeral;
(ii) A creditor for the expenses of the last illness;
(iii) The surviving spouse; and
(iv) To the next of kin.
(2) In the case of conflicting claims, the order of priority shall be that set out in subdivision (a)(1)(B).
(b) The receipt of any guardian, administrator or executor, duly appointed and qualified by the courts of this state or any other state, acknowledging the payment or transfer of funds, standing in the name of the person whose estate the fiduciary represents, in the form of deposits in associations shall be good and sufficient acquittance for the payment or transfer and shall constitute a valid defense in favor of the associations against the demands or claims of all parties.
(c) No association shall be liable for damages, penalty or tax by reason of any payment made pursuant to this section.
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