(1) Any savings and loan association organized and incorporated under the laws of this state as a savings and loan association that is eligible to become a member of the federal home loan bank, in accordance with the provisions of the act of congress known and cited as the "Federal Home Loan Bank Act", 12 U.S.C. sec. 1421 et seq., approved July 22, 1932, is authorized to subscribe for stock of the federal home loan bank for the district in which it is located and to invest its funds in such stock for the purpose and to the extent required and permitted by the provisions of the "Federal Home Loan Bank Act", 12 U.S.C. sec. 1421 et seq., or any amendment thereto, and is further authorized to furnish to the federal office of thrift supervision or its successor and to the federal home loan bank reports of examinations of such associations made by the commissioner, and is further authorized to consent to an examination to be made by the federal office of thrift supervision or its successor or the federal home loan bank, and is further authorized to do all other things as may be required by the "Federal Home Loan Bank Act", 12 U.S.C. sec. 1421 et seq., or any amendment thereto, necessary to obtain and to continue membership in the federal home loan bank and to obtain advances therefrom or that may be incidental to acquiring or holding membership and to obtaining advances therefrom, and is authorized to assume all the duties, obligations, responsibilities, and liabilities and become entitled to all the benefits provided in the "Federal Home Loan Bank Act", 12 U.S.C. sec. 1421 et seq.

(2) Any savings and loan association has the power to borrow money from the federal home loan bank, when authorized by resolution of its board of directors, upon such terms and rates of interest as may be agreed upon and is authorized to assign and pledge its notes, bonds, mortgages, or other property and to repledge the shares ofstock pledged to it as collateral security without securing the consent of the owner thereto as security for the repayment of its indebtedness for money borrowed.

(3) Such pledgee of any note or other evidence of indebtedness due to an association has the right to enforce in its own name or in the name of the association all appropriate remedies to enforce collection, whether or not the shares described in connection with said note are held by such pledgee. Any obligation incurred by or loan made to an association shall constitute a claim against the association's assets and shall be payable in advance of and by preference over all claims or rights of the shareholders or stockholders of such association and shall be prior to and outrank any demand or application for withdrawal or cancellation of all classes of shares or stock or units or certificates in said association including prepaid and matured shares. The existence of a withdrawal list consisting of members desiring to withdraw from the association shall not prevent the board of directors of such association, in its discretion, from borrowing money from the federal home loan bank, to be used for the purpose of making mortgage loans to the members of the association or retiring bank loans, in which event all such amount of borrowed money may be exclusively used for the purpose borrowed or for other purposes, subject to the approval of the commissioner; but no savings and loan association shall at any time borrow money from the federal home loan bank in an amount exceeding any limit fixed by the laws of this state.

(4) Any savings and loan association having funds in its treasury for investment, which funds are deemed by it to be in excess of the amount needed for loans to its members and for the payment of matured shares and withdrawals, has the power to invest such portion of these excess funds in the obligations, bonds, debentures, and other securities of the federal home loan bank; but such investments may not be made in an amount in excess of the limit, if any, provided by the laws of this state for investment of funds in classes of investment other than in mortgage loans to members of the association.

(5) Any officer, director, trustee, attorney, or agent of a savings and loan association, or other borrower, acting as agent for a federal home loan bank in the collection of interest, amortization, or installment payments on collateral deposited with said bank, who applies the proceeds of such collections otherwise than as provided in the agreement with the bank is guilty of theft and shall be subject to the punishment provided by the laws of this state for that offense.