Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:573 – Organization
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:573
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Trust business: means the holding out by a person to the public by advertising, solicitation, or other means that the person is available to perform any service of a fiduciary in this state or another state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:572
- Trust company: means a corporation or a limited liability trust company organized under this Chapter, including a trust company organized under the laws of this state before June 27, 2003, or an entity chartered to act as a fiduciary that is neither a depository institution nor a foreign bank. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:572
A. A trust company shall be organized pursuant to this Title and shall be managed and governed pursuant to this Chapter. The organizational documents of a trust company must contain the following statement: “This corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership or limited liability partnership is subject to Chapter 7-A of Title 6 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, and does not have the power to solicit, receive, or accept money or its equivalent on deposit or to lend money, except for lending reasonably related to and derived from its service as fiduciary or its conduct of trust business.” This organizational document must be submitted to the commissioner. Upon approval by the commissioner, organizational documents shall be submitted for filing in the same manner as provided by in La. Rev. Stat. 6:213.
B. Any charter which has been issued to a trust company becomes automatically canceled and must be returned to the commissioner immediately in the event the trust company becomes inactive or ceases to do the business for which it was chartered.
Acts 2003, No. 573, §1, eff. June 27, 2003.