Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 45 > Chapter 2 > Part 19 - Credit Card State Banks

• 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.
• Bank: means a credit card state bank established and operated in accordance with §. See Tennessee Code 45-2-1903
• Cardholder: includes borrowers and other primary obligors on loans. See Tennessee Code 45-2-1903
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of financial institutions. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Control: has the meaning set forth in 12 U. See Tennessee Code 45-2-1901
• 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.
• credit card plan: means any account that can be accessed by a credit card, including a debit card with a credit feature, whereby the cardholder may obtain loans from time to time either by credit card cash advance or by the purchase or satisfaction by the bank of obligations of the cardholder incurred pursuant to a credit card. See Tennessee Code 45-2-1903
• Credit card state bank: means a state bank chartered under the laws of Tennessee and whose principal office is in this state and the activities of which are limited to those permitted under §. See Tennessee Code 45-2-1901
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Deposit: means a deposit of money, bonds or other things of value, creating a debtor-creditor relationship. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
• Domestic holding company: means a company or other affiliate, that either:
  (i) Controls a domestic or foreign lender and has its principal place of business in this state. See Tennessee Code 45-2-1901
• Domestic lender: means any bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, or credit union organized and supervised under the laws of this state or the United States, that has its principal place of business in this state or any other business organization that is authorized by law to accept deposits and make loans and has its principal place of business in this state. See Tennessee Code 45-2-1901
• Foreign lender: means any bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, credit union, organized or chartered under the laws of the United States, or any state other than this state, or the District of Columbia, that has its principal place of business outside this state, or any other business organization that is authorized by law to accept deposits and make commercial loans and has its principal place of business outside this state. See Tennessee Code 45-2-1901
• Holding company: means any company that controls a domestic or foreign lender. See Tennessee Code 45-2-1901
• Loan: means any extension of credit, including, but not limited to, credit extended under plans or in transactions for which no credit card is issued, whether by way of installment, single payment, add-on, discount factoring, or otherwise for personal, consumer, agricultural or commercial purposes. See Tennessee Code 45-2-1903
• Month: means a calendar month. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Qualifying organization: means a corporation, partnership, or other entity that at all times maintains an office in this state, at which it employs at least one hundred (100) persons residing in this state, and that is directly engaged in providing the following services, either for the qualifying organization or on behalf of other domestic or foreign lenders or credit card state banks:
  (A) The distribution of credit cards or other devices designed and effective to access credit card accounts. See Tennessee Code 45-2-1901
• Savings and loan association: includes a building and loan association, a federal or state savings and loan association, a federal savings bank, and any other financial institution, the accounts of which are insured by the [former] federal savings and loan insurance corporation (FSLIC) or any successor [repealed] of such corporation. 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 bank: means any bank chartered by this state. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105