Sec. 332.

(1) As used in sections 325 to 331:

(a) “Fines” shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan.

(b) “Other enterprise” shall include employee benefit plans.

(c) “Savings bank” includes all savings banks, banks, out-of-state banks, national banks, and associations, absorbed in a consolidation or merger and the consolidated savings bank, so that a person who is or was a director, officer, employee, or agent of the savings bank, bank, out-of-state bank, national bank, or association or is or was serving at the request of the savings bank, bank, out-of-state bank, national bank, or association as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee, or agent of another savings bank, bank, out-of-state bank, national bank, or association, foreign or domestic corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, or other enterprise, whether for profit or not, shall hold the same position with respect to the consolidated savings bank as he or she would if he or she had served the consolidated savings bank in that capacity.

(d) “Serving at the request of the savings bank” shall include any service as a director, officer, employee, or agent of the savings bank which imposes duties on, or involves services by, the director, officer, employee, or agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries.

(2) A person who acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be considered to have acted in a manner not opposed to the best interests of the savings bank or its shareholders or members as referred to in section 326.

History: 1996, Act 354, Imd. Eff. July 1, 1996