Sec. 186.203. NATURE AND DURATION OF RECEIVERSHIP. (a) The court may not require a bond from the banking commissioner as receiver.

(b) A reference in this chapter to the receiver is a reference to the banking commissioner as receiver and to any successors in office, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation if acting as receiver as provided by Section 186.003 and federal law, or an independent receiver appointed at the request of the banking commissioner as provided by Section 186.004.

(c) The receiver has all the powers of the directors, managers, managing participants, officers, and shareholders or participants of the state trust company as necessary to support an action taken on behalf of the state trust company.

(d) The receiver and all employees and agents acting on behalf of the receiver are acting in an official capacity and are protected by Section 12.106. An act of the receiver is an act of the state trust company in liquidation. This state or a political subdivision of this state is not liable and may not be held accountable for any debt or obligation of a state trust company in receivership.

(e) Section 64.072, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, applies to the receivership of a state trust company except as provided by this subsection. A state trust company receivership shall be administered continuously for the length of time necessary to complete its purposes, and a period prescribed by other law limiting the time for the administration of a receivership or of corporate affairs generally, including Section 64.072(d), Civil Practice and Remedies Code, does not apply.

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, Sec. 7.16(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1999.