2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 716 - Savings Banks
Section 716.588 - Investments in certain corporate capital stocks; conditions; restrictions on corporate indebtedness.

(a) All of the capital stock of the corporation is owned by one or more savings banks organized under the laws of this state;
(b) The activities of the corporation are performed directly or through one or more wholly owned subsidiaries, and consist only of one or more of the following:
(A) Originating, purchasing, selling and servicing education loans and loans and participations in loans secured by first liens upon real estate and manufactured dwellings, including brokerage and warehousing of loans;
(B) Making any investment which would be an authorized investment of a savings bank organized under the laws of this state;
(C) Performing services for savings banks organized under the laws of this state; or
(D) Making investments in unimproved real estate for the purpose of prompt development and subdivision;
(c) The aggregate outstanding investment in the capital stock, obligations, or other securities of service corporations and subsidiaries thereof, including all loans, secured and unsecured, to the service corporations or any subsidiaries thereof and to joint ventures of the service corporation or subsidiaries, whether or not the savings bank is a stockholder in the service corporation, do not exceed three percent of the savings bank’s assets. For the purpose of this subsection the term "aggregate outstanding investment" means the sum of the amounts paid for the acquisition of capital stock or securities and amounts invested in obligations of service corporations, less amounts received from the sale of capital stock or securities of service corporations and amounts paid to the savings bank to retire obligations of service corporations; and
(d) The corporation executes and files with the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services a written agreement in the form prescribed by the Director that the corporation will permit and pay the cost of examinations and audits by the director as the director considers necessary.
(2) If one of the savings banks holds more than 40 percent of the stock, the corporation, including any subsidiary, shall not incur or have outstanding at any time debts in excess of the following limitations:
(a) In the case of an unsecured debt other than to a holder of its capital stock, the lesser of an amount equal to one percent of the assets of the holder or holders of its capital stock or to the investment in the stock, obligations or other securities of the corporation by the holder or holders of its capital stock, excluding secured debts owed by the corporation to the holder or holders; and
(b) In the case of a secured debt, other than to a holder of its capital stock, the lesser of an amount equal to four percent of the assets of the holder or holders of its capital stock or four times the investment in the stock obligations or other securities of the corporation by the holder or holders of its capital stock excluding secured debts owed by the corporation to the holder or holders. [1973 c.797 §375b; 1981 c.192 §31; 1987 c.911 §15; 1999 c.59 §224; 2005 c.80 §5]

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