30.04.280 - Compliance enjoined -- Banking, trust business, branches. - Washington Statutes

Compliance enjoined — Banking, trust business, branches.

No person shall engage in banking except in compliance with and subject to the provisions of this title, unless it is a national bank or except insofar as it may be authorized so to do by the laws of this state relating to mutual savings banks or savings and loan associations. A corporation shall not engage in a trust business except in compliance with and subject to the provisions of this title. A bank shall not engage in a trust business except as authorized under this title. A bank or trust company shall not establish any branch except in accordance with the provisions of this title. Except as authorized by federal law or by another law of this state, a trust company incorporated under the laws of another state, a national trust company or national bank the main office of which is located in such other state, or a federal savings bank the home office of which is located in such other state, shall not be permitted to engage in a trust business in this state on more favorable terms and conditions than the terms and conditions on which trust companies incorporated under this chapter and mutual savings banks engaged in trust business under RCW 32.08.140, 32.08.142, 32.08.210, and 32.08.215 are permitted to engage in trust business in such other state.

[1998 c 45 § 1; 1996 c 2 § 4; 1955 c 33 § 30.04.280. Prior: 1933 c 42 § 3, part; 1919 c 209 § 7, part; 1917 c 80 § 15, part; RRS § 3222, part.]

Notes: Severability -- 1996 c 2: See RCW 30.38.900.