2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 13 - Banks, Banking and Finance › Chapter 2 - Organization of Banks › Article 8 - Interstate Branching and Bank Mergers › Section 13-2-802 - Definitions.

13-2-802. Definitions.
(a) As used in this article:
(i) "Affiliate" has the meaning set forth in the Bank Holding Company Act, 12 U.S.C. section 1841(k);
(ii) "Bank" has the meaning set forth in 12 U.S.C. section 1813(h), provided that the term "bank" shall include a foreign bank only if organized under the laws of a territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa or the Virgin Islands and the deposits of which are insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation;
(iii) "Bank supervisory agency" means any of the following:
(A) Any agency of another state with primary responsibility for chartering and supervising banks; and
(B) The office of the comptroller of the currency, the federal deposit insurance corporation, the board of governors of the federal reserve system and any successor to these agencies.
(iv) "Branch" means any manned branch bank, branch office, branch agency, additional office, separate office or any branch or separate place of business operated by a bank in this state which offers any or all of the banking services conducted at a parent bank, but excludes a remote electronic terminal as defined in W.S. 13-1-501(a)(v);
(v) "Control" shall be construed consistently with the provisions of 12 U.S.C. section 1841(a)(2);
(vi) "Home state" means:
(A) With respect to a state bank, the state by which the bank is chartered;
(B) With respect to a national bank, the state in which the main office of the bank is located;
(C) With respect to a foreign bank, the state determined to be the home state of the foreign bank under 12 U.S.C. section 3103(c).
(vii) "Home state supervisor" means, with respect to an out-of-state state bank, the bank supervisory agency of the state in which the bank is chartered;
(viii) "Host state" means a state, other than the home state of a bank, in which the bank maintains or seeks to establish and maintain a branch;
(ix) "Insured depository institution" means any institution included for any purpose within the definitions of "insured depository institution" as set forth in 12 U.S.C. section 1813(c)(2) and (3);
(x) "Interstate merger transaction" means:
(A) The merger or consolidation of banks with different home states, and the conversion of branches of any bank involved in the merger or consolidation into branches of the resulting bank; or
(B) The purchase of all or substantially all of the assets, including all of the branches, of a bank whose home state is different from the home state of the acquiring bank.
(xi) "Out-of-state bank" means a bank whose home state is a state other than Wyoming;
(xii) "Out-of-state state bank" means a bank chartered under the laws of any state other than Wyoming;
(xiii) "Resulting bank" means a bank that has resulted from an interstate merger transaction under this article;
(xiv) "State" means any state, territory or other possession of the United States, including the District of Columbia;
(xv) "Wyoming bank" means a bank whose home state is the state of Wyoming;
(xvi) "Wyoming state bank" means a bank chartered under the laws of the state of Wyoming.