Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 8-187

Current with changes through the 2024 First Special Legislative Session
Section 8-187 - Banks; department may take possession; when; examination of affairs; liens dissolved; retention of possession

Whenever it appears to the director from any examination or report provided for by the laws of this state that (1) the capital of any bank is impaired, (2) a bank is conducting its business in an unsafe or unauthorized manner, (3) a bank is endangering the interests of its depositors, (4) a bank, upon its failure, refuses to make any of the reports or statements required by the laws of this state, (5) the officers or employees of any bank refuse to submit its books, papers, and affairs to the inspection of any examiner, (6) any officer of a bank refuses to be examined upon oath touching the affairs of the bank, (7) from any examination or report provided for by law, the director has reason to conclude that a bank is in an unsafe or unsound condition to transact the business for which it is organized or that it is unsafe and inexpedient for the bank to continue its business, or (8) a bank neglects or refuses to observe any order of the director, the department may immediately take possession of the property and business of the bank, conduct the affairs of the bank, and retain possession of all money, rights, credits, assets, and property of every description belonging to the bank, as against any mesne or final process issued by any court against the bank whose property has been taken and retain possession for a sufficient time to make an examination of its affairs and dispose of such property as provided by law. All levies, judgment liens, attachments, or other liens obtained through legal proceedings against the bank or its property, acquired within sixty days next preceding the taking of possession of the bank, in the event the bank is liquidated and the business of the bank is not resumed or carried on after the taking of possession of the bank by the department, shall be void and the property affected by the levy, judgment lien, attachment, or other lien so obtained shall be wholly discharged and released from any levy, judgment lien, attachment, or other lien. The department shall retain possession of the property and business of the bank until the bank resumes business or its affairs are finally liquidated under the Nebraska Banking Act.

Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 8-187

Laws 1909, c. 10, § 48, p. 89; R.S.1913, § 328; Laws 1919, c. 190, tit. V, art. XVI, § 49, p. 705; C.S.1922, § 8029; Laws 1923, c. 191, § 11, p. 443; Laws 1925, c. 30, § 1, p. 122; Laws 1929, c. 38, § 16, p. 164; C.S.1929, § 8-181; Laws 1933, c. 18, § 42, p. 157; C.S.Supp.,1941, § 8-181; R.S.1943, § 8-173; Laws 1963, c. 29, § 87, p. 168; Laws 1987, LB 2, § 11; Laws 1998, LB 1321, § 16; Laws 2017, LB 140, § 84.
Amended by Laws 2017, LB 140,§ 84, eff. 8/24/2017, op. 8/24/2017.