32-2-101. Purpose -- definitions. (1) A corporation operated for the purpose of encouraging home ownership and thrift and making substantially all of its loans on real estate mortgage security shall be known in this chapter as a building and loan association or a savings and loan association and is under the supervision of the department, which shall enforce all laws with respect to it.
     (2) The associations have continual succession and shall be organized under the provisions of this chapter.
     (3) When used in this chapter, the following definitions apply:
     (a) "Building and loan association" includes savings and loan associations organized under this chapter.
     (b) "Capital stock" means the aggregate of shares of nonwithdrawable capital issues by a capital stock association.
     (c) "Department" means the department of commerce provided for in Title 2, chapter 15, part 18.
     (d) "Member" means:
     (i) a person holding a savings account of a mutual association;
     (ii) a person borrowing from or assuming or obligated upon a loan or an interest therein held by the association;
     (iii) a person purchasing property securing a loan or interest therein held by such association; or
     (iv) any other person obligated to the association.
     (e) "Mutual association" means a building and loan association formed without authority to issue stock.
     (f) "Savings account" means that part of the savings liability of the association which is credited to the account of the holder thereof and includes any form of withdrawable deposit.
     (g) "Stock association" means a building and loan association formed with authority to issue stock.
     (h) "Stockholder" means the holder of one or more shares of any class of capital stock of a capital stock association organized and operating pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
     (4) For the purposes of subsection (3)(d), a joint, survivorship, or any other multiple owner or borrower relationship constitutes a single membership.

     History: Ap. p. Sec. 1, Ch. 57, L. 1927; re-en. Sec. 6355.1, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 187, L. 1945; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 68, L. 1949; amd. Sec. 69, Ch. 431, L. 1975; Sec. 7-101, R.C.M. 1947; Ap. p. Sec. 13, Ch. 57, L. 1927; re-en. Sec. 6355.14, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 7-115, R.C.M. 1947; R.C.M. 1947, 7-101, 7-115; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 274, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 5, L. 1983.