As used in the Oklahoma Savings and Loan Code:

1. "Act" or "this act" means the Oklahoma Savings and Loan Code;

2. "Association" means a savings and loan association or savings bank, including any association previously referred to as a building and loan association, incorporated and now existing under the laws of this state or hereafter incorporated under this act or which is otherwise authorized to transact savings and loan association or savings bank business under this act;

3. "Branch" means any place of business separated from the main office of an association at which deposits are received, checks paid, or money lent;

4. "Capital accounts" means permanent capital stock, undivided profits, surplus or reserves;

5. "Certificate of Authority" means a certificate issued by the Commissioner authorizing an association to transact association business;

6. "Commissioner" means the State Banking Commissioner, or the State Deputy Banking Commissioner when acting on behalf of the Commissioner pursuant to subsections C or E of Section 201 of Title 6 of the Oklahoma Statutes;

7. "Consumer banking electronic facility" means any electronic device owned, operated, leased by or on behalf of a bank, savings association, or credit union other than a telephone or modem operated by a customer of a depository institution, to which a person may initiate an electronic fund transfer. The term includes, without limitations, a point-of-sale terminal, automatic teller machine, automated loan machines, video banking centers, or any other similar electronic devices;

8. "Department" means the Oklahoma State Banking Department;

9. "Deposit account" means any form of deposit, share or other account maintained by a depositor at an association, including demand deposit accounts, whether evidenced by a passbook, certificate, or otherwise, and which does not represent permanent capital stock;

10. "Deposit association" means an association which is qualified to accept deposit accounts or which becomes so qualified pursuant to this act;

11. "Earnings" means the money payable or to be credited to holders of deposit accounts by an association as payment for the use of the funds which constitute such accounts. Earnings on deposit accounts in a deposit association may be designated as interest, and earnings on other deposit accounts may be designated as dividends;

12. "Existing mutual association" means a mutual association which was authorized to do business in Oklahoma on the effective date of this act;

13. "Federal association" means a savings and loan association or savings bank organized and existing under the laws of the United States;

14. "Foreign association" means any firm, company, association, partnership or corporation, by whatever name called, actually engaged in the savings association business, which is not organized under the laws of this state or of the United States;

15. "Insured association" means an association the deposit accounts of which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to the extent provided by federal law;

16. "Main office" means the office location which has been designated by the Commissioner or the Office of Thrift Supervision as the main office of an association;

17. "Member" means the holder of a deposit account of a mutual association, and also includes the owner of real estate upon which the mutual association holds a mortgage or deed of trust;

18. "Mutual association" means an association which derives its principal capital from the deposit accounts of its members and whose members have the right to participate in the management of the association. The term includes any association organized or existing under prior laws of this state. A mutual association is not a deposit association unless and until it becomes qualified as such;

19. "Net worth" of a stock association shall mean the aggregate of the permanent capital stock account, paid-in surplus, earned surplus, legal and federal insurance reserves and undivided profits;

20. "Permanent capital stock" means that part of the capital or liabilities of an association representing ownership of the association and which is not subject to being withdrawn or the value paid to the holder thereof unless and until all other liabilities of the association have been fully liquidated and paid;

21. "Shares" or "share accounts" means any deposit account issued by a mutual association in the form of installment shares, optional installment shares, full paid shares, prepaid shares, savings shares, or other shares by whatever name called, evidenced by passbook, certificate, or other evidence or holding;

22. "Stock association" means an association which issues permanent capital stock and which limits the right to participate in the management of the association to the holders of such permanent capital stock. Stock associations are also deposit associations;

23. "Stockholder" means the holder of permanent capital stock;

24. "Withdrawable account" means a deposit account of an association which does not represent permanent capital stock; and

25. "Withdrawal value" means the amount paid to an association on a deposit account plus earnings credited thereto, less lawful deductions therefrom.

Added by Laws 1970, c. 101, § 2, eff. June 1, 1970. Amended by Laws 1978, c. 168, § 1, eff. July 1, 1979; Laws 1986, c. 219, § 4, emerg. eff. June 9, 1986; Laws 1988, c. 65, § 2, emerg. eff. March 25, 1988; Laws 1990, c. 118, § 1, emerg. eff. April 23, 1990; Laws 1993, c. 183, § 29, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 2000, c. 81, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2000.