32-1-325. Selection of officers and employees -- minutes of meetings. - Montana Statutes

     32-1-325. Selection of officers and employees -- minutes of meetings. (1) The board of directors of a bank must hold a meeting at least quarterly.
     (2) The board of directors may elect a president, one or more vice-presidents, a cashier and one or more assistant cashiers, and other officers and employees that they may from time to time consider to be to the best interest of the bank and fix their compensation. The president must be chosen from the board of directors.
     (3) The board of directors shall keep a correct report of the meetings of the board and of the stockholders in a book kept for that purpose. The minutes must disclose the dates of the meetings and the names of the directors or stockholders present. This record of the meetings of the board of directors must be subscribed to by the presiding officer and the person responsible for preparing the minutes. The minutes must be read and approved at the following meeting of the board of directors, and the minutes of the following meeting must show that fact. The minute book must be kept in the main office of the bank at all times and must be presented to the department at the time of its examination of the books. The department shall include in its report of examination of the bank a statement of the dates on which the meetings were held since the last examination of the bank and the names of the directors in attendance at each of those meetings. A person who makes a false entry in the book or who changes or alters an entry made in it is guilty of a misdemeanor.

     History: En. Sec. 12, Ch. 89, L. 1927; re-en. Sec. 6014.16, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 431, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 5-210; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 264, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 179, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 19, Ch. 395, L. 1993.