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Title XXXVIII
BANKS AND BANKING
Chapter 655
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS GENERALLY
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CHAPTER 655
TITLE XXXVIII

BANKS AND BANKING

CHAPTER 655
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS GENERALLY
655.001
Purpose; application.
655.005
Definitions.
655.012
General supervisory powers; rulemaking; seal.
655.013
Effect on existing financial institutions.
655.015
Construction; standards to be observed by commission and office.
655.016
Liability when acting upon rule, order, or declaratory statement.
655.017
Local regulation preempted.
655.0201
Service of process, notice, levy, or demand on financial institutions.
655.031
Administrative enforcement guidelines.
655.032
Investigations, subpoenas, hearings, and witnesses.
655.0321
Restricted access to certain hearings, proceedings, and related documents.
655.0322
Prohibited acts and practices; criminal penalties.
655.0323
Unsafe and unsound practices.
655.033
Cease and desist orders.
655.034
Injunctions.
655.035
Military lending.
655.037
Removal of a financial institution-affiliated party by the office.
655.0385
Disapproval of directors and executive officers.
655.03855
Provisional directors and executive officers.
655.0386
Transactions with financial institution-affiliated parties.
655.0391
Retention of supervision by office.
655.0392
Place of transacting business.
655.041
Administrative fines; enforcement.
655.043
Articles of incorporation; amendments; approval.
655.044
Accounting practices; bad debts ineligible to be carried as assets.
655.045
Examinations, reports, and internal audits; penalty.
655.047
Assessments; financial institutions.
655.049
Deposit of fees and assessments.
655.057
Records; limited restrictions upon public access.
655.059
Access to books and records; confidentiality; penalty for disclosure.
655.0591
Trade secret documents.
655.061
Competitive equality with federally organized or chartered financial institutions.
655.071
International banking facilities; definitions; notice before establishment.
655.41
Definitions.
655.411
Conversion of charter.
655.412
Merger and consolidation.
655.414
Acquisition of assets; assumption of liabilities.
655.416
Book value of assets.
655.417
Effect of merger, consolidation, conversion, or acquisition.
655.418
Nonconforming activities; cessation.
655.4185
Emergency action.
655.419
Effect.
655.50
Florida Control of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in Financial Institutions Act.
655.51
Employment information.
655.55
Law applicable to deposits in and contracts relating to extensions of credit by a deposit or lending institution located in this state.
655.56
Collection of fines, interest, or premiums on loans made by financial institutions.
655.60
Appraisals.
655.762
Sale of assets.
655.769
Definitions of terms used in ss. 655.77-655.91.
655.77
Deposits by minors.
655.78
Deposit accounts in two or more names.
655.79
Deposits and accounts in two or more names; presumption as to vesting on death.
655.80
Convenience accounts.
655.82
Pay-on-death accounts.
655.825
Deposits in trust; applicability of s. 655.82 in place of former s. 655.81.
655.83
Adverse claim to a deposit or fiduciary account.
655.84
Limitations; statements as correct.
655.85
Settlement of checks.
655.851
Unclaimed credit balances.
655.86
Issuance of postdated checks.
655.89
Legal holidays; business days; business and transactions.
655.90
Closing during emergencies and other special days.
655.91
Records of institutions and copies thereof; retention and destruction.
655.921
Transaction of business by out-of-state financial institutions; exempt transactions.
655.922
Banking business by unauthorized persons; use of name.
655.93
Definitions for ss. 655.93-655.94.
655.931
Authority to engage in safe-deposit business.
655.932
Lease to minor.
655.933
Access by fiduciaries.
655.934
Effect of lesseeā€™s death or incapacity.
655.935
Search procedure on death of lessee.
655.936
Delivery of safe-deposit box contents or property held in safekeeping to personal representative.
655.937
Access to safe-deposit boxes leased in two or more names.
655.938
Adverse claims to contents of safe-deposit box.
655.939
Limiting right of access for failure to comply with security procedures.
655.94
Special remedies for nonpayment of rent.
655.942
Standards of conduct; institutions.
655.943
Applications; verification.
655.946
Single interest insurance placed by financial institutions.
655.947
Debt cancellation products.
655.948
Significant events; notice required.
655.949
Personnel; qualifications.
655.954
Financial institution loans; credit cards.
655.955
Liability of financial institution to third parties.
655.960
Definitions; ss. 655.960-655.965.
655.961
Violation of specified provisions not negligence per se.
655.962
Lighting; mirrors; landscaping.
655.963
Access devices.
655.964
Application.
655.965
Preemption; prohibition.
655.966
Automated teller machine; surcharge disclosure.
655.967
State-funded endowments.
655.968
Financial institutions; transactions relating to Iran or terrorism.