Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:801 – Savings liability; demand deposit liability
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:801
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Association: means a savings association, thrift institution, homestead, building and loan association, savings and loan association, or society, including both capital stock and mutual associations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:703
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Depositor: means a holder of a savings, demand, or other type of deposit account of an association. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:703
- Member: means a person or entity holding a savings or demand account of or shares of a mutual association, and may include a person borrowing from or assuming or obligated upon a loan or interest therein held by such association if such is authorized by the charter or the bylaws of the association. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:703
- Savings account: means an account to which earnings, including interest, is paid or accrued. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:703
- Savings liability: means the aggregate amount of savings accounts of depositors and shares of members, plus earnings credited to such accounts, less redemptions and withdrawals. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:703
A. The savings account liability and the demand deposit account liability of an association is not limited, and shall consist only of the aggregate amount of accounts of depositors and shares of members, plus earnings credited to such shares and accounts, less redemption and withdrawal payments.
B. Except as limited by the board of directors, a depositor or member may make additions to his shares or savings or demand accounts in such amounts and at such times as he may elect.
C. The depositors shall not be responsible for any losses which their savings liability and demand deposit liability shall not be sufficient to satisfy, nor shall the holders thereof be liable for any unpaid installments on their accounts.
D. Depositors’ savings or demand accounts shall be non-assessable, and depositors shall stand as general creditors of the association.
E. No preference between members of mutual associations shall be created with respect to the distribution of assets upon voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of an association.
F. No association shall issue, sell, negotiate, or advertise for issuance or sale to depositors any type of savings or investment media or contract with respect to the savings liability in a manner inconsistent with the provisions of this Chapter.
Acts 1970, No. 234, §1. Acts 1983, No. 675, §1.