Idaho Code 26-2720 – Conflict of Interest — Defined
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(1) For purposes of this section:
(a) "Associate" means that term as defined in section 26-2702, Idaho Code.
(b) "Relative" means parent, child, sibling, spouse, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, brother-in-law, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, nephew, niece, uncle, or aunt.
(2) If a licensee provides financing assistance to a business firm or engages in another business transaction, and if that financing assistance or transaction involves a potential conflict of interest, the terms and conditions under which the licensee provides the financing assistance or engages in the transaction shall not be less favorable to the licensee than the terms and conditions that would be required by the licensee in the ordinary course of business if the transaction did not involve a potential conflict of interest. Each person who participates in the decision of the licensee relating to a transaction described in this section and has knowledge of a potential conflict of interest involving that transaction shall disclose the potential conflict of interest in the financing documents of the transaction or, for a business transaction not involving financing assistance, in another appropriate document.
Terms Used In Idaho Code 26-2720
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person;
Idaho Code 73-114Property: includes both real and personal property. See Idaho Code 73-114
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) of this section, transactions engaged in by a licensee which involve a potential conflict of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
(a) Providing financing assistance to a principal shareholder of the licensee, to a person controlled by a principal shareholder of the licensee, or to a director, officer, partner, relative, controlling person, or affiliate of a principal shareholder of the licensee.
(b) Providing financing assistance to a business firm to which a principal shareholder of the licensee: a director, officer, partner, relative, controlling person, or affiliate of a principal shareholder of a licensee, or a person controlled by a principal shareholder of the licensee provides or plans to provide contemporaneous financing assistance.
(c) Providing financing assistance to a business firm which has or is expected to have a substantial business relationship with another business firm which has a director, officer, or controlling person who is also a director, officer, or controlling person of the licensee or who is the spouse of a director, officer, or controlling person of the licensee.
(d) Providing financing assistance to a business firm if that business firm, or a director, officer, or controlling person of that business firm, contemporaneously has lent or will lend money to an associate of the licensee.
(e) Providing financing assistance for the purchase of property of an associate or principal shareholder of the licensee.
(f) Selling or otherwise transferring any of its assets to an associate or principal shareholder of the licensee.
(4) Nothing in this section or in any other section of this chapter limits the authority of the director to determine that an act involves a conflict of interest and therefore is an unsafe or unsound act.
(5) Except with the approval of the director, a licensee shall not provide a lien on or security interest in any of its property for the purpose of securing an obligation of, or an obligation incurred for the benefit of, another person.