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2004 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 6.1-62 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 6.1-62. Loans to executive officers or directors.
A. No executive officer or director of any bank shall borrow any amount more
than $25,000 from such bank until after such loan, including the granting of a
line of credit, has been approved by a majority of the directors or by a
committee of officers or directors which shall include at least one director
appointed by the board of directors with authority to approve loans. An
executive officer is one who participates or has authority to participate in
the major policy-making functions of the bank.
B. Whenever any loan, including the granting of a line of credit, the amount of
which together with all other obligations, direct or indirect, of such executive
officer, director or controlled entity is $100,000 or more or five percent of the
bank's total capital and surplus, excluding undivided profits, whichever is
less is made to any executive officer or director of a bank, or to any entity
which the Commission determines is controlled by one or more executive officers
or directors thereof, such loan or line of credit shall be specifically
approved by a majority of the bank's board of directors or the committee of
officers and directors described in subsection A. In the case of approval by
the committee it shall be reported to the board at its next meeting. No
extension, renewal or renegotiation of any such loan or line of credit in
excess of the amounts described in this subsection or in subsection A shall be
made, to any of the foregoing individuals or their interests, unless it is
approved by a majority of the board of directors or by the committee of
officers and directors so appointed. In the case of approval by the committee
it shall be specifically reported to the board of directors at its next regular
meeting. The prohibitions herein shall not be construed to require approval by
the board of directors of advances under a previously authorized line of
credit.
C The maximum amount of loans and other extensions of credit a bank may make to
any of its executive officers or directors, and the conditions and procedures
for approval of such extensions of credit, shall be governed by Federal Reserve
Board Regulation O, 12 C.F.R. Part 215, whether or not the bank is a member of
the Federal Reserve System.
B. The aggregate amount of a bank's loans extensions of credit to its
executive officers or directors or, and their interests, shall not be
excessive. The Commission shall establish promulgate such regulations as may be
required to prevent excessive aggregate amounts of lending extensions of credit
by banks a bank to such persons and their interests.