Mississippi Code
General Provisions
§ 81-5-77. Limit of loans and extensions of credit to single borrower

The liability to a bank by a person, company, corporation or firm for all loans and extensions of credit, including in the liability of such person, company or firm, where a partnership, the liabilities of the several members thereof, shall not exceed twenty percent (20%) of the aggregate unimpaired capital and unimpaired surplus of the bank.
The following shall not be restricted to or considered as coming within the limitations of twenty percent (20%) prescribed in subsection (a):
Loans and discounts secured by warehouse receipts or shippers' order bills of lading representing actually existing values, provided the amount of such loans and discounts shall not exceed eighty-five percent (85%) of the market value of the commodities representing the actually existing values.
Loans and discounts secured by bonds, certificates or notes constituting direct obligations of the United States government, or bonds fully guaranteed by the United States government, or by full faith and credit obligations of the State of Mississippi; however, the Commissioner of Banking and Consumer Finance shall from time to time determine and fix the maximum percentage of the par value of all such securities that may be loaned.
Loans and discounts to the extent that they are secured or covered by guaranties, or by commitments, or agreements to take over or purchase the same, made by any federal reserve bank, or by the United States, or any department, bureau, board, commission or establishment of the United States, including any corporation wholly owned directly or indirectly by the United States; provided that such guaranties, agreements or commitments are unconditional and are to be performed by payment within sixty (60) days after demand; provided, further, that the Commissioner of Banking and Consumer Finance is authorized to define the terms used in this section and may by regulation control the making of loans under this paragraph (iii).
Loans and discounts secured in full by funds on deposit in time or savings accounts with the lending bank to the credit of the borrower.
The limit on loans and extensions of credit applicable to any one (1) person, company, corporation, or firm under this section shall take into consideration credit exposure arising from derivative transactions between the bank and the party. For purposes of this section, the term "derivative transaction" includes any transaction that is a contract, agreement, swap, warrant, note, or option that is based, in whole or in part, on the value of, any interest in, or any quantitative measure or the occurrence of any event relating to, one or more commodities, securities, currencies, interest or other rates, indices, or other assets.
Any officer or director who approves or makes loans prohibited in this section shall be liable individually for the full amount of the principal and interest of any such loan or extension of credit. If the Commissioner of Banking and Consumer Finance discovers, in any examination of any open bank that there is a loss on any loan or extension of credit made in violation of this section, he shall make demand of all directors and officers approving or making such loan or extension of credit for payment of the entire unpaid balance on any such loan or extension of credit. Like demand shall be made and suit brought by the receiver of any bank in liquidation.
However, this section shall not apply to loans or extensions of credit to the State of Mississippi, or to any political subdivision thereof, nor to any levee district.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 81 - Banks and Financial Institutions

Chapter 5 - General Provisions Relating to Banks and Banking

General Provisions

§ 81-5-2. Private corporation laws; application to state banks

§ 81-5-3. Bank not to permit use of its name

§ 81-5-5. Local and regional banks for farm loans authorized

§ 81-5-7. Preservation of old records

§ 81-5-9. Banks shall become members of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

§ 81-5-11. State banks may become members of Federal Reserve Bank

§ 81-5-13. Federal Reserve Act requirements must be observed

§ 81-5-15. Officers and employees of banks to furnish fidelity bond; insurance

§ 81-5-17. Bank stock; transfer and use as collateral

§ 81-5-19. Stock; record of transfer of to be kept

§ 81-5-21. Stock of other banks not to be owned

§ 81-5-23. Preferred stock; issuance authorized

§ 81-5-25. Investments in stock of small business investment companies

§ 81-5-27. Liability of stockholders

§ 81-5-29. Corporations may be formed to purchase, hold and own bank assets

§ 81-5-31. Voting trusts prohibited

§ 81-5-33. Powers in regard to trusts

§ 81-5-34. Accounts of administrators, executors, guardians, trustees, and other fiduciaries

§ 81-5-35. State and national banks acting in fiduciary capacity not required to file bond; exception

§ 81-5-39. Banks may register securities held in fiduciary capacity in name of bank's nominee

§ 81-5-41. Foreign investors may engage in certain activities without qualifying

§ 81-5-45. Qualification and oath of directors; meetings; executive and auditing committee

§ 81-5-47. Directors may contract to sell stock while continuing to serve

§ 81-5-49. Interlocking directorates prohibited

§ 81-5-51. Loans to directors and executive officers

§ 81-5-53. Limitation of liability when dealing with agents, trustees, etc.

§ 81-5-56. Month and year checking account opened to be printed on face of checks

§ 81-5-57. Excess deposits; limit and penalty

§ 81-5-59. Deposit of minors

§ 81-5-61. Safe deposit boxes; leasing to minors

§ 81-5-62. Accounts payable at death

§ 81-5-64. Access to safe-deposit box upon death of sole lessee or last surviving co-lessee; definitions; order of priority; documentation required; rights and responsibilities of persons granted access; liability protections to financial institution...

§ 81-5-65. Accounts of deceased depositors to be reported; publicity of same

§ 81-5-67. Settlement of adverse claims to deposits

§ 81-5-71. Certifying checks

§ 81-5-75. Authorization for payment of dividend

§ 81-5-77. Limit of loans and extensions of credit to single borrower

§ 81-5-79. Small loans

§ 81-5-81. Effect of third-party deposits to induce making of unsound loans

§ 81-5-83. Limit of borrowing power of banks

§ 81-5-85. Consolidation, conversion or merger of state or state and national banks, state or federal savings and loan associations and state-chartered banks, and state or federal savings banks and state-chartered banks

§ 81-5-87. Holding of real estate by bank

§ 81-5-89. Limitations upon acceptances

§ 81-5-93. Clearinghouse associations authorized

§ 81-5-95. Powers of clearinghouse associations

§ 81-5-97. Banking hours

§ 81-5-98. Drive-in teller windows and branch offices considered to be branch banks

§ 81-5-101. Dissolution of solvent banks

§ 81-5-103. General penalty