Conflict of interest; prohibitions respecting board or commissioner's office employees and credit unions

(1) No employee of the South Carolina Board of Financial Institutions or the commissioner's office shall be an officer, director, or attorney for any credit union incorporated under this chapter, or, except as provided in subsection (2), receive, directly or indirectly, any payment or gratuity from any such credit union. (2) Subsection (1) does not prohibit any such person from being a shareholder or depositor in a credit union incorporated under this chapter on the same terms as are available to other members.