Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes > Chapter 54B > Article 2 - Incorporation and Organization

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Application: means the completed package of the application to organize a State association, establish a branch office or conversion of structure of a savings and loan association which the Commissioner of Banks considers in making his recommendation. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Association: includes a State association or a federal association unless limited by use of the words "State" or "federal. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Branch office: means an office of an association other than its principal office which renders savings and loan services. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Capital stock: means securities which represent ownership of a stock association. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Certificate of approval: means a document signed by the Commissioner of Banks informing the North Carolina Secretary of State that the Commission has approved the certificate of incorporation of a proposed association. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Commission: means the State Banking Commission of the Department of Commerce. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Banks authorized pursuant to Article 2 of Chapter 53C of the N. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Conformed copies: means photocopies or carbon copies or other mechanical reproductions of an original document or paper. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Control: means the power, directly or indirectly, to direct the management or policies of an association or to vote twenty-five percent (25%) or more of any class of voting securities for an association. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• 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.
• Division: means the Savings Institutions Division of the North Carolina Department of Commerce. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Entrance fee per withdrawable account: means the amount to be paid by each person, firm or corporation when he or it pledges to a proposed mutual association to deposit funds in a withdrawable account. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Examination and investigation: means a supervisory inspection of an association or proposed association which may include inspection of every relevant piece of information including subsidiary or affiliated businesses. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Federal association: means a corporation or association organized and operated under the provisions of federal law and regulation to conduct a savings and loan business. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• following: when used by way of reference to any section of a statute, shall be construed to mean the section next preceding or next following that in which such reference is made; unless when some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
• in writing: may be construed to include printing, engraving, lithographing, and any other mode of representing words and letters: Provided, that in all cases where a written signature is required by law, the same shall be in a proper handwriting, or in a proper mark. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
• Initial pledges for withdrawable accounts: means those pledges of funds by persons who promise to a proposed mutual association to deposit such amount if and when such proposed association becomes established. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
• Members: means withdrawable account holders and borrowers in a State mutual association. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Minimum amount of consideration: means the amount of money a stock association shall be required to have received on the sale of its stock, before it shall commence business. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Minimum amount on deposit in withdrawable accounts: means the amount of money which a mutual association must have on hand prior to its commencement of business. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Mutual association: means all mutual savings and loan associations owned by members of the association, and organized under the provisions of this Chapter or its predecessor for the primary purpose of promoting thrift and home financing. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Net worth: means an association's total assets less total liabilities. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Original incorporators: means the organizers of a State association responsible for the business of a proposed association from the filing of the application to the Commission's final decision on such application. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Principal office: means the office which houses the headquarters of an association. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Proposed association: means an entity in organizational procedures prior to the Commission's final decision on its charter application. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Registered agent: means the person named in the certificate of incorporation upon whom service of legal process shall be deemed binding upon the association. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Rules and regulations: means those regulatory procedures and guidelines issued by the Commissioner of Banks and approved by the Commission. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• savings and loan association: when used in the General Statutes, shall mean an association and shall be interchangeable. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• seal: shall be construed to include an impression of such official seal, made upon the paper alone, as well as an impression made by means of a wafer or of wax affixed thereto. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
• 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, so called; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the said district and territories and all dependencies. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
• State association: means a corporation or association organized under this Chapter or its predecessor and operated under the provisions of this Chapter to conduct the savings and loan business; or a corporation organized under the provisions of the predecessors to this Chapter and operated under the provisions of this Chapter; or a corporation organized under the provisions of federal law and so converted as to be operated under the provisions of this Chapter. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Stock association: means any corporation or company owned by holders of capital stock and organized under the provisions of this Chapter for the primary purpose of promoting thrift and home financing. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Subscriptions: means the promise to purchase capital stock in a stock association and payment of a portion of the selling price. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• United States: shall be construed to include the said district and territories and all dependencies. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
• Withdrawable accounts: means accounts in which a customer or member places funds with an association which may be withdrawn by the account holder. See North Carolina General Statutes 54B-4