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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 362.495

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Bank: means any corporation soliciting, receiving or accepting money, or its equivalent, on deposit as a business, whether the deposit is made subject to check, or is evidenced by a certificate of deposit, a passbook, a note, a receipt, or other writing, and specifically a commercial bank chartered under this chapter or a national bank located in this state. See Missouri Laws 362.010
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

Whenever unusual withdrawals from any bank or trust company doing a banking business in this state, organized under the laws of this state are being made, or whenever in the judgment of the president and cashier or president and secretary of such bank or trust company and/or the board of directors thereof, unusual withdrawals are about to be made, such officers and/or directors are hereby authorized to suspend payment of checks of depositors and any and all other withdrawals of assets of such bank or trust company for a period of six banking days. The board of directors may designate a chief executive officer who is not the president, but who shall perform all the duties of the president required by this section.