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11 GCA § 100102: Automated Teller Machine (ATM), Bank, Territorial Bank, Commercial Bank, Savings Bank, State Bank, National Bank.

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  1. Title 11: Finance and Taxation
  2. Division 4 - Banks and Banking
  3. Chapter 100: Short Title, Definitions and Miscellaneous

As used in this Title:

>Automated teller machine= (>ATM=) means a customer/bank communication terminal (>CBCT=) or other such device either manned or unmanned which may be activated through an accepted card or other means of access to an account at a financial institution, as such terms are defined in 15 U.S. Code § 1693a of the Electronic Funds Transfer Act; or any other electronic terminal or device either manned or unmanned which may be activated by the use of a credit card for the purpose of obtaining credit from the card issuer, as such terms are defined in 15 U.S. Code § 1602 of the Truth in Lending Act, other than a device provided and maintained by the card issuer or under its authority for the sole purpose of electronically authorizing sales transactions at a merchant=s place of business. A device shall not be deemed maintained or provided under authority of the card issuer merely by reason of the fact that credit may be obtained electronically through the device.

>Bank= or >Commercial Bank,= except as otherwise provided in this Title, means an officially chartered institution empowered to receive deposits, make loans, provide checking and savings account services, and/or conduct a general commercial banking activity, organized under strict requirements of either the Federal or a state or territorial government.

>Bank holding company= means a bank holding company as defined in Section 2(a)(1) of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended.

>Control= shall be construed consistent with Section 2(a)(2) of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended.

>Customer/bank communication terminal= (>CBCT=) has the meaning set forth in this Section for >automated teller machine= (>ATM=).

>National Bank= means any bank chartered under the national banking laws of the United States.

>Out-of-state bank= has the meaning set forth in §106351 of this Title.

>Savings Bank= means any bank whose charter limits its powers to accepting deposits to accounts that which may only be withdrawn after notice.

>State Bank= means any bank chartered under the banking laws of one of the states of the United States.

>Territorial Bank= means any bank chartered by Guam.”

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