Guam § 12105 - Membership. Loans to the Corporation.
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§ 12105. Membership. Loans to the Corporation.
Any financial institution may request membership in the corporation
by making application to the board of directors on such form and in such
manner as said board of directors may require, and membership shall
become effective upon acceptance of such application by said board.
Each member of the corporation shall make loans to the corporation as
and when called upon by it to do so on such terms and other conditions as
shall be approved from time to time by the board of directors, subject to the
following conditions:
(a) All loan limits shall be established at the thousand dollar
amount nearest to the amount computed in accordance with the
provisions of this section.
(b) No loan to the corporation shall be made if immediately
thereafter the total amount of the obligations of the corporation would
exceed ten (10) times the amount then paid in on the outstanding
capital stock of the corporation.
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(c) The total amount outstanding on loans to the corporation made
by any member at any one time, when added to the amount of the
investment in the capital stock of the corporation then held by such
member, shall not exceed:
(1) Twenty percent (20%) of the total amount then
outstanding on loans to the corporation by all members, including
in said total amount outstanding amounts validly called for loan
but not yet loaned.
(2) The following limit to be determined as of the time such
member becomes a member on the basis of the audited balance
sheet of such member at the close of its fiscal year immediately
preceding its application for membership, or in the case of an
insurance company, its last annual statement to the territorial
Commissioner of Banking and Insurance; two and one-half
percent (22%) of the capital and surplus of commercial banks
and trust companies; one-half of one percent (0.5%) of the total
outstanding loans made by savings and loan associations, and
building and loan associations; two and one-half percent (22%)
of the capital and unassigned surplus of stock insurance
companies, except fire insurance companies; two and one-half
percent (22%) of the unassigned surplus of mutual insurance
companies, except fire insurance companies; one-tenth of one
percent (0.1%) of the assets of fire insurance companies; and such
limits as may be approved by the board of directors of the
corporation for other financial institutions.
(d) Subject to Paragraph (1) of subsection (c) of this section, each
call made by the corporation shall be prorated among the members of
the corporation in substantially the same proportion that the adjusted
loan limit of each member bears to the aggregate of the adjusted loan
limits of all members. The adjusted loan limit of a member shall be the
amount of such member's loan limit, reduced by the balance of
outstanding loans made by such member to the corporation and the
investment in capital stock of the corporation held by such member at
the time of such call.
(e) All loans to the corporation by members shall be evidenced by
bonds, debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of the
corporation, which shall be freely transferable at all times, and which
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shall bear interest at a rate of not less than one-quarter of one percent
(0.25%) in excess of the rate of interest determined by the board of
directors to be the prime rate prevailing at the date of issuance thereof
on unsecured commercial loans.
Source: official Guam text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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