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. (a) An association may make, invest in, sell, purchase,
participate in, or otherwise deal in secured or unsecured loans for
agricultural, business, commercial, or corporate purposes, provided
that the total investment in such loans does not exceed 10 percent of
the assets of the association.
(b) An association may invest in, sell, purchase, participate in,
or otherwise deal in loans specified in subdivision (a) which are
originated by any savings association, federal association, holding
company of a federally insured savings association, commercial bank,
bank holding company, subsidiary of a bank holding company, or
insurance company, provided that the total investment in such loans
shall not exceed 10 percent of the association's assets.
(c) For the purposes of this section, the term "loan" does not
include any corporate debt security unless it is rated in one of the
four highest rating categories by at least one nationally recognized
rating service.
(d) No association shall make, invest in, purchase, or participate
in a loan for agricultural, business, commercial, or corporate
purposes to one borrower, except as the commissioner may approve in
writing, if the sum of the amount of the association's interest in
the loan and the total balance of the association's interest in all
outstanding loans for those purposes owed to the association by that
borrower exceed the greater of (1) the amount a national bank having
an identical total capital and surplus could lend to one borrower, or
(2) the amount a commercial bank, as defined in Section 105, having
an identical total shareholders' equity, capital notes, and
debentures, could lend to one borrower. This subdivision shall not
apply to loans (1) secured by real property, (2) sold without
recourse, (3) on the security of the association's deposit accounts,
or (4) of unsecured day funds, including federal funds or similar
unsecured loans.
(e) As used in this section the term "one borrower" means:
(1) Any person that is, or upon the making of a loan will become,
an obligor on the loans. However, a guarantor shall not be included
within the meaning of "obligor" if, in connection with a loan the
association has determined, in good faith, that the primary obligor
has qualified for the loan irrespective of the existence of the
guarantor. In the case of a loan that has been assumed by a third
party with the consent of the association, the former debtor and any
guarantor shall not be deemed to be an "obligor."
(2) Nominees of the obligor.
(3) All persons, trusts, syndicates, partnerships and corporations
of which the obligor is a nominee, a beneficiary, a member, a
general partner, a limited partner owning an interest of 10 percent
or more based on the value of his or her capital contribution, or a
record or beneficial stockholder owning 10 percent or more of the
capital stock.
(4) If the obligor is a trust, syndicate, partnership or
corporation, all trusts, syndicates, partnerships and corporations of
which any beneficiary, member, general partner, limited partner
owning an interest of 10 percent or more based on the value of his or
her capital contribution, or record or beneficial stockholder owning
10 percent or more of the capital stock, is also a beneficiary,
member, general partner, limited partner owning an interest of 10
percent or more based on the value of his or her capital
contribution, or record or beneficial stockholder owning 10 percent
or more of the capital stock of the obligor.