Section 10-4-139 Rights to shares, bonds, securities or other evidences of corporate indebtedness.
Section 10-4-139
Rights to shares, bonds, securities or other evidences of corporate indebtedness.
(a) Notwithstanding any rule at common law, any provision of any general or special law or any provision in their respective charters, agreements of association, articles of organization or trust indentures:
(1) Any person, including all domestic corporations organized for the purpose of carrying on business within this state, and further including, without implied limitation, public utility companies, insurance companies, foreign corporations licensed to do business within this state, all financial institutions as defined in Section 10-4-130, and all trusts, are hereby authorized to acquire, purchase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of any bonds, securities or other evidences of indebtedness created by, or the shares of the capital stock of, the corporation and, while owners of said stock, to exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of ownership, including the right to vote thereon, all without the approval of any regulatory authority of the state, except as otherwise provided in this article; provided, however, that a financial institution which does not become a member of the corporation shall not be permitted to acquire any shares of the capital stock of the corporation;
(2) All financial institutions are hereby authorized to become members of the corporation and to make loans to the corporation as provided in Section 10-4-140; and
(3) Each financial institution which becomes a member of the corporation is hereby authorized to acquire, purchase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of any bonds, securities or other evidences of indebtedness created by, or the shares of the capital stock of, the corporation and, while owners of said stock, to exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of ownership, including the right to vote thereon, all without the approval of any regulatory authority of the state; provided, that the amount of the capital stock of the corporation which may be acquired by any member pursuant to the authority granted in this section shall not exceed 10 percent of the loan limit of such member.
(b) The amount of capital stock of the corporation which any member is authorized to acquire pursuant to the authority granted in this section is in addition to the amount of capital stock in corporations which such member may otherwise be authorized to acquire.
(Acts 1969, No. 322, p. 681, §4.)