A. Any savings account holder may, at any time, present a written application for withdrawal of all or any part of his savings account except to the extent it may be pledged to the association or to another person on the books of the association. The association may pay in full each withdrawal request as presented without requiring that written application be made. When an association is unable to pay all withdrawal requests within a period of thirty days from the date of receipt of written request, the association shall number and file all withdrawal requests in the order received and proceed in the following manner while any withdrawal request remains unpaid for more than thirty days:

(1) withdrawal requests shall be paid in the order received and, if any holder of a savings account or accounts has requested the withdrawal of more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), he shall be paid one thousand dollars ($1,000) in order when reached and his withdrawal request shall be charged with that amount as paid and shall be renumbered and placed at the end of the list of withdrawal requests, and thereafter, upon again being reached, shall be paid a like amount but not exceeding the withdrawal value of his savings account, and until the withdrawal request has been paid in full shall continue to be so paid, renumbered and replaced at the end of the withdrawal requests on file. When any such request is reached for payment, the association shall advise the holder of the savings account by certified mail to his last address of record on the books of the association and, unless the holder applies in person or in writing for the payment of the withdrawal request within thirty days from the date of the mailing of the notice, no payment on account of the withdrawal request shall be made and the request shall be cancelled. The board of directors may pay on an equitable basis an amount not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200) to any holder of a savings account or accounts in any calendar month without regard to any other provision of this section.

(2) when an association is unable to pay all withdrawal requests within a period not exceeding thirty days from the date of receipt of written request, it shall allot to the payment of such requests the remainder of the association's receipts from all sources after deducting from total receipts appropriate amounts for expenses, required payments on indebtedness, earnings distributable in cash to holders of savings accounts and a fund for general corporate purposes equivalent to not more than twenty percent of the association's receipts from holders of its savings accounts and from its borrowers.

B. When a savings account is opened in any association or federal association in the names of two or more persons, whether minor or adult, in such form that the money in the account is payable to either, or the survivor or survivors, the account and all additions thereto is the property of the persons as joint tenants. The money in the account may be paid to, or on the order of any one of the persons during his lifetime or to, or on the order of any one of the survivors of them after the death of any one or more of them. The opening of the account in such form is, in the absence of fraud or undue influence, conclusive evidence in any action to which either the association or the surviving party or parties is a party of the intention of all of the parties to the account to vest title to the account and the additions thereto in the survivor or survivors. By written instructions given to the institution by all the parties to the account, the signature of more than one of the persons during their lifetimes or of more than one of the survivors after the death of any one of them may be required on any check, receipt or withdrawal order, in which case the institution shall pay the money in the account only in accordance with the instructions, but no such instructions shall limit the right of the survivor or survivors to receive the money in the account. Payment of all or any money in the account as provided in this subsection discharges the institution from liability with respect to the money paid prior to receipt by the institution of written notice from any one of them directing the institution not to permit withdrawals in accordance with the terms of the account or the instructions. After receipt of such notice, an institution may refuse, without liability, to honor any check, receipt or withdrawal order on the account pending determination of the rights of the parties. No institution paying any survivor in accordance with the provisions of this subsection is liable for any estate, inheritance or succession taxes which may be due this state.

History: 1953 Comp., § 48-15-106, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 61, § 62.

Cross references. — For pledges of savings accounts in joint tenancy, see 58-10-61 NMSA 1978.