(a) The business and affairs of a state trust company organized as a corporation shall be managed under a board of directors consisting of a minimum of five (5) and a maximum of twenty-five (25) members, as specified in the charter or bylaws. A trust company organized as a limited liability company shall be managed by a board consisting of a minimum of five (5) and a maximum of twenty-five (25) directors or managers, as specified in the articles of organization or operating agreement.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 45-2-2108

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of financial institutions. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
  • 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.
  • operating: means that:
    (A) A charter has been issued to a bank by the United States comptroller of the currency or a certificate of authority has been issued by the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State trust company: means a corporation or limited liability company organized or reorganized under the Tennessee Banking Act, compiled in this chapter and chapter 2 of this title, whose purposes and powers are limited to fiduciary purposes and power, including a trust company previously organized under the laws of this state. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
  • Trust company: means a state trust company or any other company chartered to act as a fiduciary that is neither a depository institution nor a foreign bank. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) A majority of the board shall be citizens of the United States.
(c) The board of directors shall meet at least quarterly, and a majority shall constitute a quorum. The commissioner may call a special meeting of the board. The board shall keep minutes of each meeting, including a record of attendance and of all votes cast by each director.
(d) A state trust company shall have only one (1) officer designated as the chief executive officer of the company, who shall also be a member of the board of directors.
(e) A state trust company shall report to the commissioner within twenty-four (24) hours any change in the position of chief executive officer and shall provide such other information as the commissioner may require.
(f) As indicated in § 45-2-2101, § 45-2-402(d) and (e) shall apply to a state trust company.
(g) The directors shall at least annually prescribe the amount or penal sum of the fidelity bond and insurance coverage required by § 45-2-2106(a) and designate the sureties and underwriters of the bond and insurance, after giving due and careful consideration to all known elements and factors constituting a risk or hazard. The action shall be recorded in the minutes of the board of directors and be subject to approval by the commissioner.
(h) At least once in each calendar year, at intervals of not more than fifteen (15) months, a state trust company shall obtain and provide to the commissioner an audited financial statement prepared by an independent certified public accountant licensed to do business in this state. In the case of a trust company that is a subsidiary of a holding company, the commissioner may, in the commissioner’s discretion, alternatively accept audited consolidated financial statements of the holding company, after considering the structure and complexity of the consolidated organization; provided, that the consolidated total assets of the trust company comprise seventy-five percent (75%) or more of the consolidated total assets of the holding company.
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