§546. Additional powers; rate export
A. Financial service center banks shall have the following additional powers:
(1) To engage in permissible activities authorized under this Part in other states, including but not limited to the making of loans to non-Louisiana borrowers, without such activities being considered or criticized as being extra-territorial.
(2) To establish loan production offices at locations outside of Louisiana. All loans arranged by such loan production offices shall be approved in advance by the financial service center bank at its main office in Louisiana. While such loans may be closed in other states, the loan proceeds must be disbursed from Louisiana.
(3) To lease movable property to be initially located outside of Louisiana without limitation or restrictions. Financial service center banks may establish wholly-owned leasing subsidiaries for such purposes, which may have offices outside of Louisiana. Loans by financial service center banks to their wholly-owned leasing subsidiaries shall be exempt from the lending limit restrictions of R.S. 6:415.
(4) To provide discount brokerage services to non-Louisiana customers without limitation or restrictions and to establish wholly-owned discount brokerage subsidiaries for such purposes, which may have offices outside of Louisiana.
(5) To perform such additional activities as may be approved by regulations of the commissioner.
B.(1) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, there shall be no limitation on the amount or rates of interest that may be assessed by a financial service center bank in connection with any loan or other extension of credit.
(2) There shall be no limitation on the amount of additional fees and charges that may be assessed by a financial service center bank in connection with any loan or other extension of credit. Such additional fees and charges shall be deemed to be material to the determination of the interest rate for purposes of this Subsection and for purposes of the most favored lender doctrine of federal law.
(3) Financial service banks entering into loans and other extensions of credit may provide in their promissory notes or credit agreements that such transactions will be subject to the substantive laws of this state.
Acts 1987, No. 808, §1.
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