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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,orcredit 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 INTERESTCHARGED BY BANKS ANDSAVINGS 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 businessshallmay 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.WhereIf a corporation has been issued more than one certificate of authorization,suchthe corporation shall allocate a portion of contributed capital to each office for whichsucha certificate has been issued, in order to comply with the capital requirements of section 53.02 and section 53.05,clausesclause (2)and (3), which sections shall be applicable to eachsuchoffice 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 subdivisionshallmust 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 suchA 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 companyshall have power tomay do any of the following: (1)Tocarry commercial or demand banking accounts;touse the word "bank" or "banking" in its corporate name;to receivesavings accounts or deposits oroperate as a savings bank; (2)Tohave 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 itscontributed capital and appropriated reserves to any personprimarily liable; provided, however, if a loan has been made toany one person primarily liable and payments have been made onthe certificate of indebtedness securing it, the amount of suchpayments may be added to the limitation stated in this clausefor the purpose of determining whether additional loans may bemade to that person;(4) Toaccept 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 ortoreduce 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 GUARANTEEOF CERTIFICATESHELD 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 ordermade 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 personandor the several members, officers, directors, agents, and employees thereof, whoshall violateviolates orparticipateparticipates in the violation of any of the provisions of sections 56.01,56.12, 56.131, 56.14, 56.17,and 56.18shall beis 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, thatif 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 insuchthe building; (e) any bank, trust company, savings and loan association, industrial loan and thrift company, regulated lender under chapter 56, public utility, oranyland 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 acquiressuchreal 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 thatif no more than 25 such transactions occur in any 12-month period andthatthe 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 ofsuchthose 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
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