Michigan Laws 487.3415 – Savings bank with branch offices in foreign country
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(1) Notwithstanding section 1105 of the uniform commercial code, Act No. 174 of the Public Acts of 1962, being section 440.1105 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, a savings bank doing business in this state, that has 1 or more branch offices in any foreign country shall be liable for contracts to be performed at any branch offices and for deposits to be repaid at the branch offices to no greater extent than a savings bank, banking corporation, or other organization or association for banking purposes organized and existing under the laws of the foreign country would be liable under its laws. The laws of the foreign country for the purpose of this section shall be considered to include all acts, decrees, regulations, and orders promulgated or enforced by an authority asserting governmental, military, or police power of any kind at the place where any branch office is located, whether or not the dominant authority is recognized as a de facto or de jure government.
(2) Notwithstanding section 1105 of Act No. 174 of the Public Acts of 1962, if by action of a dominant authority that is not recognized by the United States as the de jure government of the foreign territory concerned, any property situated in or any amount to be received in the foreign territory and carried as an asset of any branch office of the savings bank in the foreign territory is seized, destroyed, or canceled, then the liability of the savings bank for any deposit received and to be repaid by it, and for any contract made and to be performed by it, at any branch office in the foreign territory shall be reduced pro tanto by the proportion that the value, as shown by the books or other records of the savings bank at the time of the seizure, destruction, or cancellation of the assets bears to the aggregate of all the deposit and contract liabilities of the branch offices of the savings bank in the foreign territory, as shown at such time by the books or other records of the savings bank.
Terms Used In Michigan Laws 487.3415
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Association: means a federal savings association organized under section 5 of the home owners' loan act, chapter 64, 48 Stat. See Michigan Laws 487.3102
- Bank: means a state banking corporation organized or reorganized under the provisions of the banking code of 1999, 1999 PA 276, MCL 487. See Michigan Laws 487.3102
- Branch: means a place of business, other than the principal office of a savings bank, at which the savings bank transacts business that may be conducted at its principal office. See Michigan Laws 487.3102
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- 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.
- Foreign country: means a country other than the United States and includes a colony, dependency, or possession of a country other than the United States. See Michigan Laws 487.3102
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- Savings bank: means a state banking corporation organized or reorganized under this act. See Michigan Laws 487.3103
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
- United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
- Value: means the present worth of all rights to future benefits arising from ownership. See Michigan Laws 487.3103