Current through the 2024 Third Special Session
Section 16-13-5 - Bonds or securities, capital stock of development corporations - Authority to purchase, hold, or dispose of - Rights of holders - Rights of financial institutions(1) All persons, firms, partnerships, associations, trusts and domestic and foreign corporations organized or authorized to do business in this state, including, without implied limitation, all financial institutions, public utility corporations and insurance corporations, 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 a development corporation, and to exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of ownership thereof, all without the approval of any regulatory authority of the state.(2) All persons, firms, partnerships, associations, trusts, domestic and foreign corporations organized or authorized to do business in this state, including without implied limitation all public utility corporations and insurance corporations, other than financial institutions, are hereby authorized to acquire, purchase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge, or otherwise dispose of any of the shares of the capital stock of a development 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.(3) All financial institutions are hereby authorized to become lenders to development corporations and to make loans to the corporations as provided herein, without the approval of any regulatory authority of the state.(4) A financial institution is authorized to acquire, purchase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge, or otherwise dispose of, any bonds, securities or other evidences of indebtedness created by the corporation in accordance with its provisions for the call of loans, and any of the shares of the capital stock of the corporation, and while owners thereof, to exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of ownership, including the right to vote, all without 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 lender pursuant to the authority granted herein may not exceed 10% of the loan limit of such lender. The amount of capital stock of the corporation which any lender is authorized to acquire pursuant to the authority granted herein is in addition to the amount of capital stock in corporations which such lender may otherwise be authorized to acquire.Amended by Chapter 378, 2010 General Session.