§1138. General corporate powers

A. A savings bank may be organized to exercise the powers provided in this Chapter and such other general powers as are appropriate to its purpose.

B. A savings bank shall, without specific mention thereof in its articles of incorporation, have all the powers conferred by this Chapter and the following general corporate powers:

(1) To have and enjoy succession by a corporate name to be selected by it and by that corporate name to contract and to appear as a natural person in all courts of justice and elsewhere.

(2) To receive, hold, purchase, acquire, and convey by and under its corporate name any property including bonds, stocks, and securities of the United States of America, of any of the states, or of any corporation, board, or body, public or private, as may be necessary, proper, or convenient to the objects of the savings bank and to exercise in relation thereto all the direct and incidental rights of ownership. Savings banks may lawfully purchase, acquire, hold, and convey, unless acting as trustee or agent, immovable property only in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter.

(3) To make and use a corporate seal.

(4) To name and appoint such officers and directors to administer the affairs of the savings bank as it thinks necessary and proper, to establish the number and title of the directors or officers, and to fix the compensation of all persons in its employment.

(5) To make bylaws for the proper management of the affairs of the savings bank as may be necessary and proper in conformity with the banking law set out in Title 6 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 and the articles of incorporation, and to repeal or amend the bylaws.

(6) To accept and execute trusts or agencies of any description which may be committed or transferred with its consent to it by any person whomsoever or by any court of this state, the United States of America, or of any state, territory, or possession thereof.

(7) To invest the funds of persons of which such savings bank has been appointed tutor or curator in any common trust fund established by such savings bank under the provisions of R.S. 9:2128, such investments to be administered in conformity with that Section.

(8) To act as a fiscal agent for the deposit of public funds for the United States, state of Louisiana, or any department, branch, arm, or agency of the state or any unit of local government in the state, when duly designated for that purpose, and as such agent to perform such reasonable functions as may be required of it.

(9) To act as a depository for the purpose of holding collateral of other financial institutions when this collateral is security for public funds deposits in excess of the insured limit of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

(10) To become a member of the Federal Reserve Bank or the Federal Home Loan Bank and to purchase stock or securities thereof or deposit money therewith, and to comply with any other conditions of membership or credit.

(11) To adopt and operate reasonable insurance, bonus, profit-sharing, and retirement plans for officers and employees, and to provide for participation by directors who are not officers in such insurance plan.

(12) To reject any application for membership and to retire withdrawable capital by enforced retirement as provided in this Chapter and the bylaws; and to limit the issuance of, or payments on, withdrawable capital, subject however to contractual obligations.

(13) To purchase stock in service corporations and to invest in any form of indebtedness of any service corporation as defined in this Chapter, subject to the regulation of the commissioner of financial institutions.

(14) To exercise all the powers necessary to qualify as a trustee or custodian under the Federal Self-Employed Individuals' Tax Retirement Act of 1962 or any amendments thereto and invest any funds held in such capacity in a savings account of the institution if the trust or custodian retirement plan does not provide such investment.

(15) To obtain and maintain insurance of the withdrawable deposits by an insurance corporation as defined in this Chapter and to comply with the rules and regulations thereof.

Acts 1990, No. 816, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 1990.