32-3-701. Investment of funds. - Montana Statutes

     32-3-701. Investment of funds. Funds not used in loans to members may be invested in:
     (1) securities, obligations, or other instruments of or issued by or fully guaranteed as to principal and interest by the United States of America, or any agency thereof, or in any trust or trusts established for investing directly or collectively in the same;
     (2) general obligations of any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the several territories organized by congress, or any political subdivisions thereof;
     (3) certificates of deposit or passbook type accounts issued by a state or national bank, mutual savings bank, building and loan association, or savings and loan association;
     (4) loans to or in shares or deposits of other credit unions;
     (5) the capital shares, obligations, or preferred stock issues of any agency or association organized either as a stock company, mutual association, or membership corporation, provided the membership or stockholdings, as the case may be, of such agency or association are primarily confined or restricted to credit unions or organizations of credit unions and provided the purposes for which such agency or association is organized are designed primarily to service or otherwise assist credit union operations;
     (6) shares of a cooperative society organized under the laws of this state or of the laws of the United States in the total amount not exceeding 10% of the shares and surplus of the credit union;
     (7) loans to any credit union association or corporation, national or state, of which the credit union is a member, except that such investments shall be limited to 2% of the assets of the credit union.

     History: En. 14-659 by Sec. 59, Ch. 38, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 14-659.