RS 6:278: Registered holder of shares

Except as otherwise provided in the articles or bylaws, a state bank and its directors, officers, and agents may recognize and treat a person registered on its records as the owner of shares, as the owner in fact thereof for all purposes, and as the person exclusively entitled to have and to exercise all rights and privileges incident to the ownership of such shares; and rights under this Section shall not be affected by any actual or constructive notice which the state bank or any of its directors, officers, or agents may have to the contrary.