17:9-44 Amount of collateral required as security; exceptions.
4. a. (1) No public depository, notwithstanding the collateral requirements set forth under section 3 of P.L.2009, c.326 (C.17:9-43.1), shall be required to maintain any eligible collateral pursuant to this act as security for any deposit or deposits of any governmental unit to the extent that such deposit or deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, or by any other agency of the United States which insures deposits made in public depositories.
(2) In the case of any public depository which has not held public funds on deposit for all of a three-month period as measured pursuant to the provisions of section 3 of P.L.2009, c.326 (C.17:9-43.1), the commissioner shall, notwithstanding the provisions of that section, prescribe the amount of eligible collateral required to be maintained.
(3) Depositories shall have the right to make substitutions of eligible collateral at any time. The income from eligible collateral shall belong to the public depository without restriction.
b. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2009, c.326)
c. All collateral required to be maintained shall be deposited with any Federal Reserve Bank or Federal Home Loan Bank, or any other banking institution located in this State or a contiguous state as authorized by regulation of the commissioner, and which has capital funds of not less than $25,000,000.00. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the commissioner may authorize public depositories to hold and maintain the required collateral in such a manner as he deems consistent with the purposes of this act.
d. The market value of eligible collateral maintained pursuant to this section on any valuation date shall be presumed to be the market value of such collateral continuing until the next succeeding valuation date.
L.1970, c.236, s.4; amended 1973, c.98, s.2; 2009, c.326, s.4; 2011, c.108, s.2.
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