Key: (1) language to be deleted (2) new language
Laws of Minnesota 1983
CHAPTER 252--H.F.No. 610
An act relating to financial institutions; industrial
loan and thrift companies; regulated loans; enlarging
the group of institutions which may utilize electronic
fund transfer facilities; modifying the capital and
reserve limitation on loans by industrial loan and
thrift companies; permitting loan and thrifts and
regulated lenders to take discount points in certain
circumstances; authorizing loan and thrifts to receive
savings accounts and savings deposits subject to
certain prescribed conditions; regulating loan
splitting; eliminating the receipt requirement for
money orders; standardizing certain penalties;
excepting loan and thrifts and regulated lenders from
the licensing requirements for real estate brokers and
salespersons; amending Minnesota Statutes 1982,
sections 47.61, subdivision 4; 47.64, subdivision 1;
48.196; 53.03, subdivision 5; 53.04, subdivisions 3a
and 5; 53.05; 53.07, subdivision 2; 53.10; 56.131,
subdivision 3, and by adding a subdivision; 56.14;
56.19, subdivision 1; 80A.15, subdivision 1; and
82.18; repealing Minnesota Statutes 1982, section
56.19, subdivision 2.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 47.61,
subdivision 4, is amended to read:
Subd. 4. "Financial institution" means a national banking
association, federal savings and loan association, or federal
credit union having its main office in this state, or a bank,
savings bank, savings and loan association, or credit union,
industrial loan and thrift company, or regulated lender under
chapter 56 established and operating under the laws of this
state.
Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 47.64,
subdivision 1, is amended to read:
Subdivision 1. Any person establishing and maintaining an
electronic financial terminal for use by one type of financial
institution shall, upon written request, make its services
available to any requesting financial institution of similar
type on a fair, equitable and nondiscriminatory basis approved
by the commissioner. A financial institution requesting use of
an electronic financial terminal shall be permitted its use only
if the financial institution conforms to reasonable technical
operation standards which have been established by the
electronic financial terminal provider as approved by the
commissioner. For purposes of this subdivision, the types of
financial institutions are: (a) commercial banks and mutual
savings banks; (b) credit unions, industrial loan and thrift
companies, and regulated lenders under chapter 56; and (c)
savings and loan associations. The services of an electronic
financial terminal may be made available to any type of
financial institution. After March 1, 1979, or earlier if
determined by the commissioner to be technically feasible, an
electronic financial terminal which is used by or made available
to one type of financial institution shall be made available,
upon request, to other types of financial institutions on a
fair, equitable and nondiscriminatory basis as approved by the
commissioner. The charges required to be paid to any person
establishing and maintaining an electronic financial terminal
shall be related to an equitable proportion of the direct costs
of establishing, operating, and maintaining the terminal plus a
reasonable return on those costs to the owner of the terminal.
The charges may provide for amortization of development costs
and capital expenditures over a reasonable period of time.
Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 48.196, is
amended to read:
48.196 [PENALTY FOR USURIOUS INTEREST CHARGED BY BANKS AND
SAVINGS BANKS.]
The taking, receiving, reserving or charging by a lender of
a rate of interest greater than is allowed by state law shall be
deemed a forfeiture of the entire interest which the note, bill,
or other evidence of debt carries with it, or which has been
agreed to be paid thereon. In case the greater rate of interest
has been paid, the person paying it, or his legal
representatives, may recover, in an action in the nature of an
action of debt, twice the amount of the interest thus paid from
the lender taking or receiving the interest, if the action is
commenced within two years from the time the usurious
transaction occurred. For purposes of this section, the term
"lender" means a bank or savings bank organized under the laws
of this state, a federally chartered savings and loan
association, a savings association organized under chapter 51A,
a federally chartered credit union, a credit union organized
under chapter 52, an industrial loan and thrift company
organized under chapter 53, a regulated lender licensed under
chapter 56, or a mortgagee or lender approved or certified by
the secretary of housing and urban development or approved or
certified by the administrator of veterans affairs.
Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 53.03,
subdivision 5, is amended to read:
Subd. 5. [PLACE OF BUSINESS.] Not more than one place of
business shall may be maintained under any certificate of
authorization issued subsequent to the enactment of Laws 1943,
chapter 67, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, but the
department of commerce may issue more than one certificate of
authorization to the same corporation upon compliance with all
the provisions of this chapter governing an original issuance of
a certificate of authorization. Where If a corporation has been
issued more than one certificate of authorization, such the
corporation shall allocate a portion of contributed capital to
each office for which such a certificate has been issued, in
order to comply with the capital requirements of section 53.02
and section 53.05, clauses clause (2) and (3), which sections
shall be applicable to each such office and the capital
allocated thereto in the same manner as if each certificate had
been issued to a separate corporation. Each additional
certificate of authorization issued pursuant to the provisions
of this subdivision shall must be filed with the secretary of
state and the county recorder of the county in which the
corporation is authorized to do business thereunder. Any such A
corporation may change one or more of its locations upon the
written approval of the commissioner of banks.
Sec. 5. Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 53.04,
subdivision 3a, is amended to read:
Subd. 3a. (a) The right to make loans, secured or
unsecured, at the rates and on the terms and other conditions
permitted licensees under chapter 56. The right to extend
credit or lend money and to collect and receive charges therefor
as provided by chapter 334, or in lieu thereof to charge,
collect, and receive interest at the rate of 21.75 percent per
annum. The provisions of sections 47.20 and 47.21 do not apply
to loans made under this section, except as specifically
provided in this subdivision. Nothing in this subdivision shall
be deemed to supersede, repeal, or amend any provision of
section 53.05. A licensee making a loan under this chapter
secured by a lien on real estate shall comply with the
requirements of section 47.20, subdivision 8.
(b) Loans made under this section at a rate of interest not
in excess of that provided for in paragraph (a) may be secured
by real or personal property, or both. If the proceeds of a
loan made after August 1, 1984 are used in whole or in part to
satisfy the balance owed on a contract for deed, the rate of
interest charged on the loan shall not exceed the rate provided
in section 47.20, subdivision 4a. If the proceeds of a loan
secured by a first lien on the borrower's primary residence are
used to finance the purchase of the borrower's primary
residence, the loan must comply with the provisions of section
47.20.
(c) A loan made under this section that is secured by real
estate and that is in a principal amount of $7,500 or more and a
maturity of 60 months or more may contain a provision permitting
discount points, if the loan does not provide a loan yield in
excess of the maximum rate of interest permitted by this
subdivision. Loan yield means the annual rate of return
obtained by a licensee computed as the annual percentage rate is
computed under Federal Regulation Z. If the loan is prepaid in
full, the licensee must make a refund to the borrower to the
extent that the loan yield will exceed the maximum rate of
interest provided by this subdivision when the prepayment is
taken into account.
Sec. 6. Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 53.04,
subdivision 5, is amended to read:
Subd. 5. The right, with the consent of the department of
commerce, to (1) sell and issue for investment certificates of
indebtedness, under any descriptive name, which may bear
interest, if any, as their terms provide, and which may require
the payment to the company of amounts, from time to time as
their terms provide, and permit the withdrawal of amounts paid
on them, in whole or in part, from time to time, and the credit
of amounts thereon upon conditions set forth therein; and (2)
receive savings accounts or savings deposits. No certificate of
indebtedness shall have a surrender value which is less than the
total amount paid to the company therefor.
Sec. 7. Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 53.05, is amended
to read:
53.05 [POWERS, LIMITATION.]
No industrial loan and thrift company shall have power to
may do any of the following:
(1) To carry commercial or demand banking accounts; to use
the word "bank" or "banking" in its corporate name; to receive
savings accounts or deposits or operate as a savings bank;
(2) To have outstanding at any one time certificates of
indebtedness, savings accounts, and savings deposits, exclusive
of those held by the company, as security for loans made by it
of more than seven times the sum of the contributed capital and
appropriated reserves of the company;
(3) To lend money in excess of ten percent of its
contributed capital and appropriated reserves to any person
primarily liable; provided, however, if a loan has been made to
any one person primarily liable and payments have been made on
the certificate of indebtedness securing it, the amount of such
payments may be added to the limitation stated in this clause
for the purpose of determining whether additional loans may be
made to that person;
(4) To accept trusts or act as guardian, administrator, or
judicial trustee in any form; or
(5) To (4) deposit any of its funds in any banking
corporation, unless that corporation has been designated by vote
of a majority of directors or of the executive committee present
at a meeting duly called, at which a quorum was in attendance.;
(6) To (5) change any allocation of capital made pursuant
to section 53.03 or to reduce or withdraw in any way any portion
of the contributed capital and appropriated reserves without
prior written approval of the commissioner of banks.;
(7) To (6) take any instrument in which blanks are left to
be filled in after execution; or
(7) lend money in excess of ten percent of its contributed
capital and appropriated reserves to a person primarily liable.
"Contributed capital and appropriated reserves" means the total
of the company's contributed capital and appropriated reserves
at all its authorized locations.
If a loan has been made to a person primarily liable and
payments have been made on a certificate of indebtedness
securing it, the amount of the payments may be added to the
limitation contained in this clause for the purpose of
determining whether additional loans may be made to that person.
Sec. 8. Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 53.07,
subdivision 2, is amended to read:
Subd. 2. [TEMPORARY RESERVE MINIMUM.] Until an industrial
loan and thrift company obtains a commitment for insurance or
guarantee of accounts acceptable to the commissioner as required
by section 53.10, it shall establish a minimum reserve against
the certificates of indebtedness, savings accounts, and savings
deposits described in section 53.04, subdivision 5, of not less
than ten percent of the amount of indebtedness thus created.
Three percent of this indebtedness shall be in cash in the
actual possession of the industrial loan company or on demand
deposit in approved banks of this state, and seven percent of
the total indebtedness may be in bonds admissible for investment
by mutual savings banks under the laws of this state.
Sec. 9. Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 53.10, is amended
to read:
53.10 [MANDATORY INSURANCE OR GUARANTEE OF CERTIFICATES
HELD FOR INVESTMENT.]
Subdivision 1. [REQUIREMENT.] Not later than July 1, 1983,
every industrial loan and thrift company operating under this
chapter with consent or holding a certificate of authorization,
which includes the right to sell and issue for investment
certificates of indebtedness, savings accounts, and savings
deposits, other than those to be pledged as security for a loan
made contemporaneously therewith, shall obtain a commitment for
insurance or guarantee of the certificates, accounts, or
deposits by or through an insurance company or guarantee fund
acceptable to the commissioner of banks. The insurance or
guarantee shall provide for the redemption of the investment of
certificate, account, or deposit holders in the event of
liquidation, insolvency or bankruptcy of the industrial loan and
thrift company. The amount of insurance or guarantee benefit to
each certificate, account, or deposit holder, as an individual
or multiparty account, shall at all times be in full force and
equal to the lesser of the industrial loan and thrift company's
liability under a certificate, account, or deposit or $100,000.
For purposes of this section, an insurance company or guarantee
fund includes an insurance company authorized to do business in
this state, an insurance or guarantee fund organized under the
laws of the United States, this state or any other state with
the expressed purpose or authority to guarantee the accounts of
industrial loan and thrift companies or any other person who
contracts with industrial loan and thrift companies to guarantee
accounts.
Subd. 2. The commissioner of banks shall grant additional
time or times to obtain the commitment for insurance or
guarantee upon satisfactory evidence that the industrial loan
and thrift company has made or is making a substantial effort to
achieve the conditions precedent to issuance of the commitment.
Additional time or times shall not extend later than July 1,
1985.
Subd. 3. No industrial loan and thrift company shall
hereafter be granted consent, or issued a certificate of
authorization which includes the right to issue for investment
certificates of indebtedness, savings accounts, and savings
deposits, other than those to be pledged as security for a loan
made contemporaneously therewith, unless the industrial loan and
thrift company has obtained a commitment for insurance or
guarantee of such certificates which meets the conditions of
subdivision 1.
Sec. 10. Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 56.131,
subdivision 3, is amended to read:
Subd. 3. [SPLITTING.] No licensee shall induce or permit
any borrower to split up or divide any loan or permit any person
to become obligated, directly or contigently, or both, under
more than one contract of loan for the same purpose or at the
same time for the purpose or with the result of obtaining a
higher rate of charge than would otherwise be permitted by this
section. However, if a person becomes obligated on a contract
of loan as an accommodation party, a preceding or subsequent
loan to that person is not a violation of this subdivision nor
shall such loans be aggregated in determining the applicable
rate of charge.
Sec. 11. Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 56.131, is
amended by adding a subdivision to read:
Subd. 6. [DISCOUNT POINTS.] A loan made under this section
that is secured by real estate and that is in a principal amount
of $7,500 or more and has a maturity of 60 months or more may
contain a provision permitting discount points, if the loan does
not provide a loan yield in excess of the maximum rate of
interest permitted by this section. Loan yield means the annual
rate of return obtained by a licensee computed as the annual
percentage rate is computed under Federal Regulation Z. If the
loan is prepaid in full, the licensee must make a refund to the
borrower to the extent that the loan yield will exceed the
maximum rate of interest provided by this section when the
prepayment is taken into account.
Sec. 12. Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 56.14, is
amended to read:
56.14 [DUTIES OF LICENSEE.]
Every licensee shall:
(1) deliver to the borrower (or if there are two or more
borrowers to one of them) at the time any loan is made a
statement making the disclosures and furnishing the information
required by the federal Truth-in-Lending Act with respect to the
contract of loan. A copy of the loan contract may be delivered
in lieu of a statement if it discloses the required information;
(2) deliver or mail to the borrower without request, a
written receipt within 30 days following payment for each
payment by coin, or currency, or money order made on account of
any loan wherein charges are computed and paid on unpaid
principal balances for the time actually outstanding, specifying
the amount applied to charges and the amount, if any, applied to
principal, and stating the unpaid principal balance, if any, of
the loan; and wherein precomputed charges have been added to the
principal of the loan specifying the amount of the payment
applied to principal and charges combined, the amount applied to
default or extension charges, if any, and stating the unpaid
balance, if any, of the precomputed loan contract. A periodic
statement showing a payment received by mail complies with this
clause;
(3) permit payment to be made in advance in any amount on
any contract of loan at any time, but the licensee may apply the
payment first to all charges in full at the agreed rate up to
the date of the payment;
(4) upon repayment of the loan in full, mark indelibly
every obligation and security, other than a mortgage or security
agreement which secures a new loan to the licensee, signed by
the borrower with the word "Paid" or "Canceled," and release any
mortgage or security agreement which no longer secures a loan to
the licensee, restore any pledge, and cancel and return any
note, and any assignment given to the licensee which does not
secure a new loan to the licensee within 20 days after the
repayment;
(5) display prominently in each licensed place of business
a full and accurate schedule, to be approved by the
commissioner, of the charges to be made and the method of
computing the same; furnish a copy of the contract of loan to
any person obligated on it or who may become obligated on it at
any time upon the request of that person;
(6) show in the loan contract or statement of loan the rate
or rates of charge on which the charge in the contract is based,
expressed in terms of rate or rates per annum. The rate
expression shall be printed in at least 8-point type on the loan
statement or copy of the loan contract given to the borrower.
Sec. 13. Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 56.19,
subdivision 1, is amended to read:
Subdivision 1. [CRIMINAL PENALTY.] Any person and or the
several members, officers, directors, agents, and employees
thereof, who shall violate violates or participate participates
in the violation of any of the provisions of sections 56.01,
56.12, 56.131, 56.14, 56.17, and 56.18 shall be is guilty of a
gross misdemeanor.
Sec. 14. Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 80A.15,
subdivision 1, is amended to read:
Subdivision 1. The following securities are exempted from
sections 80A.08 and 80A.16:
(a) Any security, including a revenue obligation, issued or
guaranteed by the United States, any state, any political
subdivision of a state or any corporate or other instrumentality
of one or more of the foregoing; but this exemption shall not
include any industrial revenue bond.
(b) Any security issued or guaranteed by Canada, any
Canadian province, any political subdivision of any province,
any agency or corporate or other instrumentality of one or more
of the foregoing, if the security is recognized as a valid
obligation by the issuer or guarantor; but this exemption shall
not include any revenue obligation payable solely from payments
to be made in respect of property or money used under a lease,
sale or loan arrangement by or for a nongovernmental industrial
or commercial enterprise.
(c) Any security issued by and representing an interest in
or a debt of, or guaranteed by, any bank organized under the
laws of the United States, or any bank, savings institution or
trust company organized under the laws of any state and subject
to regulation in respect of the issuance or guarantee of its
securities by a governmental authority of that state.
(d) Any security issued by and representing an interest in
or a debt of, or guaranteed by, any federal savings and loan
association, or any building and loan or similar association
organized under the laws of any state and authorized to do
business in this state.
(e) Any security issued or guaranteed by any federal credit
union or any credit union, or similar association organized and
supervised under the laws of this state.
(f) Any security listed or approved for listing upon notice
of issuance on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock
Exchange, the Midwest Stock Exchange, the Pacific Stock
Exchange, or the Chicago Board Options Exchange; any other
security of the same issuer which is of senior or substantially
equal rank; any security called for by subscription rights or
warrants so listed or approved; or any warrant or right to
purchase or subscribe to any of the foregoing.
(g) Any commercial paper which arises out of a current
transaction or the proceeds of which have been or are to be used
for current transactions, and which evidences an obligation to
pay cash within nine months of the date of issuance, exclusive
of days of grace, or any renewal of the paper which is likewise
limited, or any guarantee of the paper or of any renewal which
are not advertised for sale to the general public in newspapers
or other publications of general circulation or otherwise, or by
radio, television or direct mailing.
(h) Any interest in any employee's savings, stock purchase,
pension, profit sharing or similar benefit plan, or a
self-employed person's retirement plan.
(i) Any security issued or guaranteed by any railroad,
other common carrier or public utility which is subject to
regulation in respect to the issuance or guarantee of its
securities by a governmental authority of the United States.
(j) Any interest in a common trust fund or similar fund
maintained by a state bank or trust company organized and
operating under the laws of Minnesota, or a national bank
wherever located, for the collective investment and reinvestment
of funds contributed thereto by the bank or trust company in its
capacity as trustee, executor, administrator, or guardian; and
any interest in a collective investment fund or similar fund
maintained by the bank or trust company, or in a separate
account maintained by an insurance company, for the collective
investment and reinvestment of funds contributed thereto by the
bank, trust company or insurance company in its capacity as
trustee or agent, which interest is issued in connection with an
employee's savings, pension, profitsharing or similar benefit
plan, or a self-employed person's retirement plan.
(k) Any security which meets all of the following
conditions:
(1) If the issuer is not organized under the laws of the
United States or a state, it has appointed a duly authorized
agent in the United States for service of process and has set
forth the name and address of the agent in its prospectus;
(2) A class of the issuer's securities is required to be
and is registered under section 12 of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, and has been so registered for the three years
immediately preceding the offering date;
(3) Neither the issuer nor a significant subsidiary has had
a material default during the last seven years, or for the
period of the issuer's existence if less than seven years, in
the payment of (i) principal, interest, dividend, or sinking
fund installment on preferred stock or indebtedness for borrowed
money, or (ii) rentals under leases with terms of three years or
more;
(4) The issuer has had consolidated net income, before
extraordinary items and the cumulative effect of accounting
changes, of at least $1,000,000 in four of its last five fiscal
years including its last fiscal year; and if the offering is of
interest bearing securities, has had for its last fiscal year,
net income, before deduction for income taxes and depreciation,
of at least 1-1/2 times the issuer's annual interest expense,
giving effect to the proposed offering and the intended use of
the proceeds. For the purposes of this clause "last fiscal year"
means the most recent year for which audited financial
statements are available, provided that such statements cover a
fiscal period ended not more than 15 months from the
commencement of the offering;
(5) If the offering is of stock or shares other than
preferred stock or shares, the securities have voting rights and
the rights include (i) the right to have at least as many votes
per share, and (ii) the right to vote on at least as many
general corporate decisions, as each of the issuer's outstanding
classes of stock or shares, except as otherwise required by law;
and
(6) If the offering is of stock or shares, other than
preferred stock or shares, the securities are owned beneficially
or of record, on any date within six months prior to the
commencement of the offering, by at least 1,200 persons, and on
that date there are at least 750,000 such shares outstanding
with an aggregate market value, based on the average bid price
for that day, of at least $3,750,000. In connection with the
determination of the number of persons who are beneficial owners
of the stock or shares of an issuer, the issuer or broker-dealer
may rely in good faith for the purposes of this clause upon
written information furnished by the record owners.
(l) Any certificate of indebtedness sold or issued for
investment, other than a certificate of indebtedness pledged as
a security for a loan made contemporaneously therewith, and any
savings account or savings deposit issued, by an industrial loan
and thrift company.
Sec. 15. Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 82.18, is
amended to read:
82.18 [EXCEPTIONS.]
Unless a person is licensed or otherwise required to be
licensed under this chapter, the term real estate broker does
not include:
(a) a licensed practicing attorney acting solely as an
incident to the practice of law, provided, however, that if the
attorney complies in all respects with the trust account
provisions of this chapter;
(b) a receiver, trustee, administrator, guardian, executor,
or other person appointed by or acting under the judgment or
order of any court;
(c) any person owning and operating a cemetery and selling
lots therein solely for use as burial plots;
(d) any custodian, janitor, or employee of the owner or
manager of a residential building who leases residential units
in such the building;
(e) any bank, trust company, savings and loan association,
industrial loan and thrift company, regulated lender under
chapter 56, public utility, or any land mortgage or farm loan
association organized under the laws of this state or the United
States, when engaged in the transaction of business within the
scope of its corporate powers as provided by law;
(f) public officers while performing their official duties;
(g) employees of persons enumerated in clauses (b), (e) and
(f), when engaged in the specific performance of their duties;
(h) any person who acts as an auctioneer bonded in
conformity with section 330.02, when he is engaged in the
specific performance of his duties as an auctioneer;
(i) any person who acquires such real estate for the
purpose of engaging in and does engage in, or who is engaged in
the business of constructing residential, commercial or
industrial buildings for the purpose of resale, provided that if
no more than 25 such transactions occur in any 12-month period
and that the person complies with section 82.24;
(j) any person who offers to sell or sells an interest or
estate in real estate which is a security registered pursuant to
chapter 80A, when acting solely as an incident to the sale of
such those securities;
(k) any person who offers to sell or sells a business
opportunity which is a franchise registered pursuant to chapter
80C, when acting solely to sell the franchise;
(l) any person who contracts with or solicits on behalf of
a provider a contract with a resident or prospective resident to
provide continuing care in a facility, pursuant to the
Continuing Care Facility Disclosure and Rehabilitation Act
(chapter 80D), when acting solely as incident to the contract.
Sec. 16. [REPEALER.]
Minnesota Statutes, section 56.19, subdivision 2, is
repealed.
Sec. 17. [EFFECTIVE DATE.]
This act is effective the day following final enactment.
Approved June 1, 1983
Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes