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[80 STAT. 242]
PUBLIC LAW 89-000—MMMM. DD, 1966
[80 STAT. 242]

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re^^iatfolis^"^' 64 Stat. 891.

12 USC 22"a

Shareholders' voting r i g h t s.

12 USC s^^b

PUBLIC LAW 89-485-JULY 1, 1966

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of a foreign country or a dependency or insular possession of the United States and not engaged, directly or indirectly, in any activity in the United States except as, in the judgment of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, shall be incidental to the international or foreign business of such foreign bank; and, notwithstandi^S t^® provisions of section 23A of this Act, to make loans or extensions of credit to or for the account of such bank in the manner and within the limits prescribed by the Board by general or specific regulation or ruling." (*^) Section 18 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1828), is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(j) The provisions of section 23A of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended, relating to loans and other dealings between member banks and their affiliates, shall be applicable to every nonmember insured bank in the same manner and to the same extent as if such nonmember insured bank were a member bank; and for this purpose any company which would be an affiliate of a nonmember insured bank, within the Hieauing of section 2 of the Banking Act of 1933, as amended, and for the purposes of section 23A of the Federal Reserve Act, if such bank were a member bank shall be deemed to be an affiliate of such nonmember insured bank." SEC. 13. (a) Subsection (b) of section 2 of the Banking Act of 1933, as amended (12 U.S.Cl 221a), is further amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof the following: "; or "(4) Which owns or controls, directly or indirectly, either a majority of the shares of capital stock of a member bank or more than 50 per centum of the number of shares voted for the election of directors of a member bank at the preceding election, or controls in any manner the election of a majority of the directors of a member bank, or for the benefit of whose shareholders or members all or substantially all the capital stock of a member bank is held by trustees". (b) Subsection (c) of section 2 of the Banking Act of 1933, as amended (12 U.S.C. 221a), is repealed. /^.x Section 5144 of tile Revised Statutes, as amended (12 U.S.C. 61), •

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IS amended to read as follows: "SEC. 5144. In all elections of directors, each shareholder shall have the right to vote the number of shares owned by him for as many persons as there are directors to be elected, or to cumulate such shares and give one candidate as many votes as the number of directors multiplied by the number of his shares shall equal, or to distribute them on the same principle among as many candidates as he shall think fit; and in deciding all other questions at meetings of shareliolders, each shareholder shall be entitled to one Aote on each share of stock held by him; except that (1) this shall not be construed as limiting the voting rights of holders of preferred stock under the terms and provisions of articles of association, or amendments thereto, adopted pursuant to the provisions of section 302(a) of the Emergency Bank"^^ ^^^ Bank Conservation Act, approved March 9, 1933, as amended; (2) in the election of directors, shares of its own stock held by a national bank as sole trustee, whether registered in its own name as such trustee or in the name of its nominee, shall not be voted by the registered owner unless under the terms of the trust the manner in which such shares shall be voted may be determined by a donor or beneficiary of the trust and unless such donor or beneficiary actually directs how such shares shall be voted; and (3) shares of its own stock held by a national bank and one or more persons as trustees may be voted by such other person or persons, as trustees, in the same manner as if he or they were the sole trustee. Shareholders may vote