§748. Shares or demand deposits and savings accounts as legal investments and as security

A. Legal investments. (1) Administrators, executors, custodians, conservators, guardians, tutors, curators, trustees, and other fiduciaries of every kind and nature; insurance companies, business and manufacturing companies, banks, trust companies, credit unions, and other types of similar financial organizations; charitable, educational, eleemosynary, and public corporations, funds, and organizations; the state of Louisiana, its agencies, boards, commissions, departments, municipalities, school boards, parishes, and any other political subdivisions of the state, other public corporations, and bodies, and the public officials thereof are hereby specifically authorized and empowered to invest funds held by them, without any order of any court, in savings accounts and shares or demand deposits of an association. Such investments shall be deemed and held to be legal investments for such funds.

(2) Investments by banks and trust companies; by the state and its agencies, boards, commissions, departments, parishes, municipalities, or other political subdivisions of the state, and by other public bodies existing under the constitution and laws of the state shall not exceed at any one time the amount insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in any one savings and loan association or savings bank, unless the uninsured portion is collateralized by the pledge of securities in the manner provided by R.S. 49:321, R.S. 33:2929, R.S. 39:1221, R.S. 39:1242, or any other provision of law. Savings and loans associations and savings banks having a net worth of at least three percent of liabilities as reflected in the most recent quarterly report to the Federal Home Loan Bank of the Ninth District or its successor are expressly and specifically authorized and empowered to be fiscal agents and depositories for such investments in the same manner and to the same extent as authorized state banks, national banks, and capital stock associations.

(3) With respect to investments by custodians, associations hereby are deemed to be custodians within the meaning of that term as used in the Louisiana Gifts to Minors Act, and as such may invest funds as custodians in its own accounts.

B. Security. Whenever, under the laws of this state or otherwise, a deposit of securities is required for any purpose, the shares or savings accounts made legal investments by this Section shall be acceptable for such deposits, and whenever, under the laws of this state or otherwise, a bond is required with security, such bond may be furnished, and the shares or savings accounts made legal investments by this Section in the amount of such bond, when deposited therewith, shall be acceptable as security without other security.

C. Provisions supplemental. The provisions of this Section are supplemental to any and all other laws relating to and declaring what shall be legal investments for the persons, fiduciaries, corporations, organizations and officials referred to in this Section, and the laws relating to the deposit of securities and the making and filing of bonds for any purpose.

Acts 1970, No. 234, §1. Amended by Acts 1977, No. 341, §1; Acts 1983, No. 675, §1; Acts 1984, No. 130, §2, eff. June 22, 1984; Acts 1986, No. 446, §1, eff. July 2, 1986.