KRS 136.500: Definitions for KRS 136.500 to 136.575.

As used in KRS 136.500 to 136.575, unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) "Billing address" means the location indicated in the books and records of the

financial institution, on the first day of the taxable year or the date in the taxable

year when th e customer relationship began, as the address where any notice,

statement, or bill relating to a customer's account is mailed;

(2) "Borrower located in this state" means a borrower, other than a credit card holder,

that is engaged in a trade or business th at maintains its commercial domicile in this

state or a borrower that is not engaged in a trade or business;

(3) "Credit card holder located in this state" means a credit card holder whose billing

address is in this state;

(4) "Department" means the Department of Revenue;

(5) "Commercial domicile" means:

(a) The location from which the trade or business is principally managed and

directed; or

(b) The state of the United States or the District of Columbia from which the

financial institution's trade or busin ess in the United States is principally

managed and directed, if a financial institution is organized under the laws of

a foreign country, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any territory or

possession of the United States.

It shall be presumed, subject to rebuttal, that the location from which the financial

institution's trade or business is principally managed and directed is the state of the

United States or the District of Columbia to which the greatest number of

employees are regularly connected or out of which they are working, irrespective of

where the services of the employees are performed, as of the last day of the taxable

year;

(6) "Compensation" means wages, salaries, commissions, and any other form of

remuneration paid to employees for persona l services that are included in the

employee's gross income under the Internal Revenue Code. In the case of employees

not subject to the Internal Revenue Code, the determination of whether the

payments would constitute gross income to the employees under t he Internal

Revenue Code shall be made as though the employees were subject to the Internal

Revenue Code;

(7) "Credit card" means credit, travel, or entertainment card;

(8) "Credit card issuer's reimbursement fee" means the fee a financial institution

receives from a merchant's bank because one (1) of the persons to whom the

financial institution has issued a credit card has charged merchandise or services to

the credit card;

(9) "Employee" means, with respect to a particular financial institution, "employe e" as

defined in Section 3121(d) of the Internal Revenue Code;

(10) "Financial institution" means:

(a) A national bank organized as a body corporate and existing or in the process

of organizing as a national bank association pursuant to the provisions of the

National Bank Act, 12 U.S.C. secs. 21 et seq., in effect on December 31,

1997, exclusive of any amendments made subsequent to that date;

(b) Any bank or trust company incorporated or organized under the laws of any

state, except a banker's bank organized under KRS 286.3-135;

(c) Any corporation organized under the provisions of 12 U.S.C. secs. 611 to 631,

in effect on December 31, 1997, exclusive of any amendments made

subsequent to that date, or any corporation organized after December 31,

1997, that meets the requirements of 12 U.S.C. secs. 611 to 631, in effect on

December 31, 1997; or

(d) Any agency o r branch of a foreign depository as defined in 12 U.S.C. sec.

3101, in effect on December 31, 1997, exclusive of any amendments made

subsequent to that date, or any agency or branch of a foreign depository

established after December 31, 1997, that meets the requirements of 12 U.S.C.

sec. 3101 in effect on December 31, 1997;

(11) "Gross rents" means the actual sum of money or other consideration payable for the

use or possession of property.

(a) "Gross rents" includes but is not limited to:

1. Any amount pay able for the use or possession of real property or

tangible property, whether designated as a fixed sum of money or as a

percentage of receipts, profits, or otherwise;

2. Any amount payable as additional rent or in lieu of rent, such as interest,

taxes, insurance, repairs, or any other amount required to be paid by the

terms of a lease or other arrangement; and

3. A proportionate part of the cost of any improvement to real property

made by or on behalf of the financial institution which reverts to the

owner or lessor upon termination of a lease or other arrangement. The

amount to be included in gross rents is the amount of amortization or

depreciation allowed in computing the taxable income base for the

taxable year. However, where a building is erected on l eased land by or

on behalf of the financial institution, the value of the land is determined

by multiplying the gross rent by eight (8) and the value of the building is

determined in the same manner as if owned by the financial institution;

(b) The following are not included in the term "gross rents":

1. Reasonable amounts payable as separate charges for water and electric

service furnished by the lessor;

2. Reasonable amounts payable as service charges for janitorial services

furnished by the lessor;

3. Reasonable amounts payable for storage, if these amounts are payable

for space not designated and not under the control of the financial

institution; and

4. That portion of any rental payment which is applicable to the space

subleased from the financial institution and not used by it;

(12) "Internal Revenue Code" means the Internal Revenue Code, Title 26 U.S.C., in

effect on December 31, 2001, exclusive of any amendments made subsequent to

that date;

(13) "Loan" means any extension of credit resulting from direct negotiations between the

financial institution and its customer, and the purchase, in whole or in part, of the

extension of credit from another. Loans include participations, syndications, and

leases treated as loans for federal income tax purposes. L oans shall not include

properties treated as loans under Section 595 of the Internal Revenue Code, futures

or forward contracts, options, notional principal contracts such as swaps, credit card

receivables, including purchased credit card relationships, no ninterest-bearing

balances due from depository institutions, cash items in the process of collection,

federal funds sold, securities purchased under agreements to resell, assets held in a

trading account, securities, interests in a real estate mortgage inv estment company,

or other mortgage-backed or asset-backed security, and other similar items;

(14) "Loan secured by real property" means a loan or other obligation for which fifty

percent (50%) or more of the aggregate value of the collateral used to secure the

loan or other obligation, when valued at fair market value as of the time the original

loan or obligation was incurred, was real property;

(15) "Merchant discount" means the fee or negotiated discount charged to a merchant by

the financial institution for the privilege of participating in a program where a credit

card is accepted in payment for merchandise or services sold to the card holder;

(16) "Person" means an individual, estate, trust, partnership, corporation, limited liability

company, or any other business entity;

(17) "Principal base of operations" means:

(a) With respect to transportation property, the place from which the property is

regularly directed or controlled; and

(b) With respect to an employee:

1. The place the employee regularly starts work and to which the employee

customarily returns in order to receive instructions from his or her

employer; or

2. If the place referred to in subparagraph 1. of this paragraph does not

exist, the place the employee regularly communicates with custom ers or

other persons; or

3. If the place referred to in subparagraph 2. of this paragraph does not

exist, the place the employee regularly performs any other functions

necessary to the exercise of the employee's trade or profession at some

other point or points;

(18) "Real property owned" and "tangible personal property owned" mean real and

tangible personal property, respectively, on which the financial institution may

claim depreciation for federal income tax purposes, or property to which the

financial i nstitution holds legal title and on which no other person may claim

depreciation for federal income tax purposes or could claim depreciation if subject

to federal income tax. Real and tangible personal property do not include coin,

currency, or property acquired in lieu of or pursuant to a foreclosure;

(19) "Regular place of business" means an office at which the financial institution carries

on its business in a regular and systematic manner and which is continuously

maintained, occupied, and used by employees of the financial institution;

(20) "State" means a state of the United States, the Dis trict of Columbia, the

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any territory or possession of the United States, or

any foreign country;

(21) "Syndication" means an extension of credit in which two (2) or more persons fund

and each person is at risk only up to a spec ified percentage of the total extension of

credit or up to a specified dollar amount;

(22) (a) "Taxable year" means calendar year 1996 through calendar year 2020 for

purposes of the state bank franchise tax under KRS 136.505; and

(b) "Taxable year" means c alendar year 1996 and every calendar year thereafter

for purposes of the local government franchise tax under KRS 136.575;

(23) "Transportation property" means vehicles and vessels capable of moving under their

own power, such as aircraft, trains, water vessels, and motor vehicles, as well as any

equipment or containers attached to the property, such as rolling stock, barges, or

trailers;

(24) "United States obligations" means all obligations of the United States exempt from

taxation under 31 U.S.C. sec. 31 24(a) or exempt under the United States

Constitution or any federal statute, including the obligations of any instrumentality

or agency of the United States that are exempt from state or local taxation under the

United States Constitution or any statute of the United States; and

(25) "Kentucky obligations" means all obligations of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,

its counties, municipalities, taxing districts, and school districts, exempt from

taxation under the Kentucky Revised Statutes and the Constitution of Kentucky.