California § 10000 - Terms not expressly defined in this chapter have the meaning given in Chapter 1 (

§ 10000. Terms not expressly defined in this chapter have the meaning given in Chapter 1 (

Terms not expressly defined in this chapter have the meaning given in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 5000) or as the commissioner may provide by regulation. For the purposes of this chapter: (a) “California savings association” means either (1) an association or (2) a foreign association or successor thereof that was licensed to do the business of an association in California on September 15, 1935. (b) “Foreign holding company” means a savings and loan holding company as defined in Section 10 of the Home Owners Loan Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. Sec. 1467a) or bank holding company as defined in Section 3 of the federal Bank Holding Company Act, as amended, (12 U.S.C. Sec. 1841 et seq.), which savings and loan or bank holding company (1) has its principal place of deposits outside of California and (2) does not control a subsidiary California savings association or a subsidiary federal association with, or a subsidiary foreign savings association with, an authorized home or branch office in California at which accounts may lawfully be opened and deposits may lawfully be accepted. (c) “Foreign savings association” means an insured institution other than a California savings association and other than a federal association. (d) “Insured institution” means an entity: (1) that is organized and licensed as a savings association, savings and loan association, or savings bank under the laws of another state of the United States and the deposits of which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or (2) that is chartered by the Office of Thrift Supervision. However, “insured institution” does not include any savings bank of the type defined in Section 3(g) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. Sec. 1813(g)). (e) The “principal place of deposits” of an entity is that state in which the total deposits of all of that entity’s depository operations and those of its affiliates are largest.