71 Pa. Stat. § 733-201

Current through P.A. Acts 2023-32
Section 733-201 - Corporations and persons subject to supervision of department

The department shall have the power to supervise--

A.
(1) All corporations and persons which are authorized to receive or which do receive in this Commonwealth money on deposit or for safe-keeping, or which are authorized to engage or which do engage in this Commonwealth in a banking business, and all corporations which are authorized to act or which do act in this Commonwealth as trustees, guardians, executors, administrators, or in other fiduciary capacities, including, but not limited to, banks, bank and trust companies, trust companies, private banks, savings banks, savings associations, branches, agencies, or representative offices of foreign banks in this Commonwealth, mutual holding companies, and interstate banks, but not including hotels or clubs which receive money from guests or members for temporary safe-keeping, express, steamship, or telegraph companies which receive money for transmission, and attorneys at law, real estate agents, and attorneys in fact, who are not engaged in the business of receiving moneys in this Commonwealth for deposit or for transmission but receive and transmit moneys only as an incident to their general business or profession, brokers licensed under the laws of this Commonwealth, holding membership in a lawfully constituted brokerage exchange, who do and have authority to do only such banking as is incidental to their brokerage business;
(2) All national banking associations, incorporated under the laws of the United States and located within this Commonwealth, which are authorized to act or which do act in this Commonwealth as trustees, guardians, executors, administrators, or in any other fiduciary capacities, to the extent to which supervision by State authorities is or may be permitted under the laws of the United States.
B. If any institution subject to the supervision of the department, including any credit union, also engages in a title insurance business or any other business subject to the supervision of the Insurance Department, then such business shall not be subject to the supervision or examination authority of the department except to the extent necessary to determine the safety and soundness of the institution.

71 P.S. § 733-201

1933, May 15, P.L. 565, art. II, § 201. Amended 1935, July 2, P.L. 525, § 1; 2002, Dec. 9, P.L. 1604, No. 209, § 4, imd. effective.