Terms as used in this chapter mean:

(1) “Commission,” the South Dakota Public Deposit Protection Commission created under § 4-6A-2;

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Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 4-6A-1

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. Source: OCC
  • National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) Source: OCC
  • Public debt: Cumulative amounts borrowed by the Treasury Department or the Federal Financing Bank from the public or from another fund or account. The public debt does not include agency debt (amounts borrowed by other agencies of the Federal Government). The total public debt is subject to a statutory limit.
  • written: include typewriting and typewritten, printing and printed, except in the case of signatures, and where the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2

(2) “Deposit insurance,” insurance provided by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the National Credit Union Administration;

(3) “Eligible collateral,” collateral which is eligible as security for public deposits pursuant to §§ 51A-10-9, 51A-4-25, and 51A-4-26 and also includes certificates of deposit that are owned by the qualified public depository and that are fully insured by deposit insurance, and that portion of loans which are unconditionally guaranteed by a United States government agency including Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA), the Veterans’ Administration (VA), the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA), the Export-Import Bank (EXIMBANK), the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), and the Small Business Administration (SBA). Further, in lieu of pledging eligible securities, a qualified public depository may furnish to a public depositor irrevocable standby letters of credit issued by Federal Home Loan Banks to the public depositor accompanied by a written evidence of that bank’s public debt rating which may not be less than “AA” or better by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., or Standard & Poor’s Corporation, or a qualified public depository may furnish to a public depositor a corporate surety bond of a corporation authorized to do business in South Dakota;

(4) “Loss,” issuance of an order of supervisory authority restraining a qualified public depository from making payments of deposit liabilities or the appointment of a receiver for a qualified public depository;

(5) “Maximum liability,” a sum equal to one hundred percent of the public deposit accounts which exceed deposit insurance, which are held by the qualified public depository;

(6) “Public deposit,” all general, special, and other funds held or administered by this state or any political subdivision thereof, including counties, municipalities, townships, and school districts, or by any officer, commission, board, bureau, or agency of the state or political subdivision or any tribal government funds, and which public deposit is insured, in whole or in part, by deposit insurance;

(7) “Qualified public depository,” a state bank, national bank, federal savings and loan association, or a federally chartered credit union located in this state which receives or holds public deposits; and segregates eligible collateral for public deposits as described in § 4-6A-3;

(8) “Treasurer,” the state treasurer, a county treasurer, a treasurer of any other municipal corporation, or the custodian of any public funds.

Source: SL 1974, ch 39, § 2; SL 1982, ch 45, § 1; SL 1986, ch 44, § 1; SL 1986, ch 45, § 2; SL 1986, ch 400, § 16; SL 1987, ch 45, § 1; SL 1991, ch 39; SL 1997, ch 273, § 4; SL 2002, ch 221, § 3; SL 2015, ch 38, § 1; SL 2020, ch 4, § 24.