32-2-212. Requirements of transfer in certain cases. When a certificate of stock or a savings account in a building and loan association is owned by persons residing out of the state or is lost, the president, secretary, or directors of such association, before entering any transfer of such stock or account on its books or before issuing a new certificate therefor to the transferee or owner, may require from the attorney or agent of the owner or from the person claiming under the transfer an affidavit or other evidence that the owner was alive at the date of the transfer or that the original certificate is lost and has not been assigned or transferred and may also require from the attorney, agent, or claimant a bond of indemnity, with a surety or sureties satisfactory to the officers of such association, to protect such association against any liability to the owner, assignee, or transferee of such shares or account or the legal representatives of the owners of such shares or account, in case of his or her death before the transfer, and also to protect the association against any liability accruing or resulting by reason of said lost or original certificate being thereafter presented to it. If the affidavit or other evidence or bond is not furnished when required as herein provided, neither the association nor any officer thereof shall be liable for refusing to enter the transfer on the books of the association.

     History: En. Sec. 15, Ch. 57, L. 1927; re-en. Sec. 6355.16, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 7-117; amd. Sec. 9, Ch. 5, L. 1983.