Oregon Revised Statutes Chapter 706 § 706.008 — Additional definitions for Bank Act
Oregon Revised Statutes Chapter 706 ·
Oregon Code § 706.008·Enacted ·Last updated March 01, 2026
Statute Text
Additional definitions for Bank Act.
As used in the Bank Act:
(1) Bank means
a company, other than an extranational institution, that accepts deposits that
the Bank Insurance Fund insures to any extent under the provisions of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Act, as amended, 12 U.S.C. 1811, et seq.
(2) Bank holding
company means a company that is a bank holding company under the federal Bank
Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended, 12 U.S.C. 1841, et seq.
(3) Bank service
corporation means a corporation or a limited liability company that is
organized to perform services authorized by ORS 708A.145, all of the capital
stock or membership interests of which one or more banking institutions or
national banks own.
(4) Banking
institution means an Oregon commercial bank, an Oregon trust company or an
Oregon savings bank.
(5) Company
means an entity that is a company under the federal Bank Holding Company Act of
1956, as amended, 12 U.S.C. 1841, et seq.
(6) Extranational
institution means a corporation, unincorporated company, partnership or
association of two or more persons organized under the laws of a nation other
than the United States, or other than a territory of the United States, Puerto
Rico, Guam, American Samoa or the Virgin Islands, that engages directly in
banking business.
(7) Federal bank
means a national bank or another bank organized under the laws of the United
States.
(8) Financial
holding company means a company that engages in activities described for a
financial holding company in section 103 of the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
(P.L. 106-102).
(9) Financial
institution means an insured institution, an extranational institution, a
credit union as defined in ORS 723.006, an out-of-state credit union under ORS
723.042 or a federal credit union.
(10) Institution
means an Oregon commercial bank or an Oregon trust company.
(11) Insured
institution means a company, the deposits of which are insured under the
provisions of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, as amended, 12 U.S.C. 1811, et
seq.
(12) National
bank means a bank that was organized under the provisions of the National Bank
Act, as amended, 12 U.S.C. 21, et seq.
(13) Non-Oregon
institution means:
(a) An
out-of-state state bank that engages in banking business in Oregon;
(b) An
out-of-state trust company that transacts trust business in Oregon; or
(c) An
extranational institution that engages in banking business in Oregon.
(14) Nonstock
bank means a bank that does not issue capital stock.
(15) Oregon bank
means an Oregon stock bank or Oregon nonstock bank.
(16) Oregon
commercial bank means an Oregon stock bank that was chartered under ORS
chapter 707 as a bank other than a stock savings bank.
(17) Oregon
nonstock bank means a nonstock bank or savings bank, the home state of which
is Oregon.
(18) Oregon
operating institution means:
(a) A bank that
engages in banking business in this state;
(b) An
extranational institution that engages in banking business in this state; or
(c) A trust
company that transacts trust business in this state.
(19) Oregon
savings bank or savings bank means an Oregon stock savings bank or an Oregon
nonstock savings bank.
(20) Oregon
stock bank means a stock bank, the home state of which is Oregon.
(21) Oregon
stock savings bank means an Oregon stock bank that was initially chartered as
or was converted to a stock savings bank under the Bank Act.
(22) Oregon
trust company means a trust company that was organized under the provisions of
ORS chapter 707.
(23) Out-of-state
bank means an out-of-state state bank or an out-of-state federal bank.
(24) Out-of-state
bank holding company means a bank holding company, the home state of which is
not Oregon, and that is not the bank holding company of an Oregon stock bank or
an in-state federal stock bank.
(25) Out-of-state
federal bank means a federal bank, the home state of which is not Oregon.
(26) Out-of-state
financial holding company means a financial holding company, the home state of
which is not Oregon, and that is not the financial holding company of an Oregon
stock bank or an in-state federal stock bank.
(27) Out-of-state
state bank means a state bank, the home state of which is not Oregon.
(28) Out-of-state
trust company means a trust company that was organized under the laws of
another state.
(29) State bank
means a bank that was organized under the laws of a state.
(30) Stock bank
means a bank that issues capital stock.
(31)(a) Trust
company means a company that is authorized under the provisions of ORS chapter
709 to transact trust business, including the trust department of a bank.
(b) Trust
company does not include a corporation that a United States Bankruptcy Court
appoints to serve as a bankruptcy trustee under Title 11, United States Code,
during a time in which the corporation is acting as a bankruptcy trustee. [1997
c.631 §3
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01Part of Oregon statutory law
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03Subject to legislative amendments
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