Section 1070 Of Chapter 4. Bank Offices From California Financial Code >> Division 1.1. >> Chapter 4.
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. For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
apply:
(a) "Automated teller machine" means any electronic information
processing device used by a financial institution and its customers
for the primary purpose of executing transactions solely between the
financial institution and its customers, if the transactions are not
incidental to sales between the customer and a business entity other
than a financial institution.
(b) "Branch office" means any office at which core banking
business is conducted other than an automated teller machine, a
device used to facilitate check guarantee or check authorization, or
a remote service facility as defined in subsection (d) of Section
345.12 of Title 12 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
(c) "Core banking business" means the business of receiving
deposits, paying checks, making loans, and other activities that the
commissioner may specify by order or regulation. "Core banking
business," when used to describe the trust business, includes
receiving fiduciary assets and administering fiduciary accounts.
(d) "Facility," means an office at which a bank engages in noncore
banking business but at which it does not engage in core banking
business.
(e) "Head office" means the office designated by the bank as its
headquarters.
(f) "Noncore banking business" means all activities permissible
for banks, except core banking business, and except those activities
prohibited by law or determined by the commissioner by regulation or
order not to be noncore banking business.
(g) "Office" means the head office, any branch office, and any
facility office of a bank.
(h) "Redesignate offices" means (1) the relocation by a bank of
its head office to the site of a branch or facility office in this
state and the concurrent establishment by the bank of an office at
the former site of the head office, or (2) the relocation by a bank
of a branch office to the site of a facility office and the
concurrent establishment by the bank of a branch or facility office
at the former site of the branch office.