Title 5

A trust company or other financial institution with fiduciary powers may, in its fiduciary capacity, purchase bonds or other securities underwritten or otherwise distributed by the financial institution or by a syndicate which includes the financial institution or an affiliate of…

No bank shall have the right to operate or conduct a trust department or become a trustee or a fiduciary without having received the prior written approval of the superintendent and otherwise complied with Section 5-11A-1, even though the certificate of incorporation of the bank …

No trust company hereafter organized under the laws of Alabama shall have total initial capital accounts actually paid in of less than $1,000,000.00. (Acts 1980, No. 80-658, §5-11-3.)

Except in the case of any entity which is organized and operating under the laws of Alabama, other states, or the United States as a trust company or as a combined bank and trust company and which has complied with the requirements of Sections 5-11A-1 and 5-11A-3 or with similar …

Any corporation organized and operating as a trust company or as a bank authorized by law to do a trust business may deposit with the State Treasurer or elsewhere United States bonds, bonds, notes or debentures of any federal agency such as a federal land bank, banks for cooperat…

The State Treasurer shall decline to receive bonds or other securities of a market value less than par and may, in his discretion, decline to receive any bonds or other securities that he considers unsafe or unsuitable for the purpose. (Acts 1980, No. 80-658, §5-11-6.)

The State Treasurer shall, from time to time, furnish the company making such deposit with a proper certificate showing the fact of the deposit and containing an exact description of the bonds or other securities deposited. Such deposit is to secure the payment of all liabilities…

When any person, firm or corporation has established by final court proceedings a claim against said company to secure which said bonds or other securities were deposited and said claim is not paid within 30 days by said company, the State Treasurer shall proceed forthwith to sel…

Any trust company or bank which is authorized by law to act as a guardian, administrator, executor, receiver or trustee, except as may be otherwise provided in this code for the administration of the affairs of war veterans, under appointment of any court of this state, and which…

Absent written objection from the Superintendent of the State Banking Department, a bank, trust company or trust department (hereinafter to be known as the “transferor”) may transfer one or more fiduciary accounts administered by such bank, trust company or trust department to an…

Approval of the superintendent shall be deemed granted in the absence of written objection from the superintendent within 10 days after receipt by the superintendent of written notice from the transferor bank of the proposed transfer. (Acts 1989, No. 89-539, p. 1127, §2.)

(a) Within 30 days after the date of the transfer of the fiduciary accounts, the transferor shall send written notice by first class mail to the last known address (as then set forth on the records of the transferor, or if not set forth, as may be determined by the transferor in …

(a) Any person given notice pursuant to Section 5-11A-32 may file a written objection to the fiduciary transfer with the Superintendent of the State Banking Department, stating grounds for objection, within 30 days of receipt of notice of the transfer by the person notified pursu…

(a) Within a reasonable time after the date of a transfer of the fiduciary accounts in accordance with the procedures set forth in Sections 5-11A-32 and 5-11A-33, the transferor shall file an affidavit in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which the main office o…

If a bank, trust company or trust department completes a fiduciary transfer, the bank, trust company or trust department to which such fiduciary accounts have been transferred shall be automatically substituted as the fiduciary of all the accounts so transferred without further a…

A transferor bank, trust company or trust department is “related” to a transferee bank, trust company or trust department if: (1) Such transferee controls the transferor; (2) Such transferor controls the transferee; (3) The same entity controls, directly or indirectly, the transf…

Regardless of objection to any fiduciary transfer as provided in Section 5-11A-33 and the outcome thereof, and notwithstanding any procedure under this article, any bank may appoint a related bank, trust company or trust department as its agent for the performance of all acts, ob…