AI-assisted research summary: The commissioner must regularly visit and examine state financial institutions, and certain officers, directors, and employees must answer under oath during examinations.
§123. Visitation and examination of state financial institutions A.(1) The commissioner either in person or through an employee appointed by him shall visit and examine each financial institution chartered by his office on a recurring schedule consonant with the use to the fullest extent possible of the resources of the office in accordance with good examination practice. On every examination, inquiry shall be made as to the quality of the assets and the condition and resources of the financial institution, and may be made into the mode of conducting business and managing its affairs, the action of its directors, the investment and disposition of its funds, the safety and prudence of its management, the compliance with the requirements of its articles of incorporation and this Title in the administration of its affairs, and other matters as the commissioner may determine. (2) The commissioner, in like manner, may examine any financial institution under his jurisdiction whenever in his judgment its condition and management is in such condition as to render an examination of its affairs necessary and expedient. Such an examination, at the commissioner's discretion and upon good cause shown, may include an examination of the affairs of all of the affiliates of the financial institution as shall be necessary to fully disclose the relations between the financial institution and its affiliates and the effect of such relations upon the affairs of the financial institution. The officers, directors, and employees of every state financial institution shall answer under oath interrogatories concerning their bank as may be required by the commissioner or any other examiner during the course of an examination. B.(1) If a state bank is a member of the Federal Reserve System or its deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the commissioner may accept in lieu of any visitation and examination required by this Section examinations and reports thereof made pursuant to the Federal Reserve Act or statutes of the United States authorizing Federal Deposit Insurance. If a state savings and loan association is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the commissioner may accept in lieu of his own examination an examination made pursuant to statutes of the United States. (2) The commissioner may accept supervisory reports and other information from any state, federal, or foreign supervisory agency, or from any financial institution doing business or domiciled in the state which is subject to the jurisdiction of any state, federal, or foreign supervisory agency, which in the commissioner's opinion evidences a good faith effort on the part of the affected financial institution to comply with the provisions of the Louisiana Consumer Credit Law, R.S. 9:3510 et seq. C. For the purposes of this Section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) "Affiliate" means any company that controls the financial institution, any company that is controlled by the company that controls the financial institution, any subsidiary of the financial institution, any company controlled by a common shareholder who beneficially or otherwise controls the financial institution or any company that controls the financial institution, any company in which a majority of its directors are also a majority of the directors of the financial institution or the company that controls the financial institution, any company that is sponsored or advised on a contractual basis by the financial institution or any subsidiary or affiliate of the financial institution, or any investment company in which the financial institution or any affiliate of the financial institution is an investment advisor. (2) "Control" means owning, controlling, or having the power to vote, directly or indirectly, twenty-five percent or more of any class of voting securities; or controlling in any manner the election of a majority of the directors or trustees; or after notice and opportunity for hearing, the commissioner determines that such company or shareholder, directly or indirectly, exercises a controlling influence over the management or policies of the other company. No company shall be deemed to own or control another company by virtue of its ownership of shares in a fiduciary capacity unless a trustee controls twenty-five percent or more of the voting shares of a company for the benefit of shareholders who control twenty-five or more of the voting shares of a financial institution or its holding company or the ownership or control of one company by another through a business trust creates an affiliate relationship. Acts 1984, No. 719, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1985; Acts 1985, No. 360, §1, eff. July 9, 1985; Acts 1993, No. 883, §1, eff. Oct. 1, 1993; Acts 1999, No. 261, §1.