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2012 Florida Statutes
                        Chapter 655
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS GENERALLY Entire Chapter
    
    FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS GENERALLY Entire Chapter
CHAPTER 655
                FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS GENERALLY
            
                        655.001
                        
                    Purpose; application.
                    
                        655.005
                        
                    Definitions.
                    
                        655.012
                        
                    General supervisory powers; rulemaking; seal.
                    
                        655.013
                        
                    Effect on existing financial institutions.
                    
                        655.015
                        
                    Construction; standards to be observed by commission and office.
                    
                        655.016
                        
                    Liability when acting upon rule, order, or declaratory statement.
                    
                        655.0201
                        
                    Service of process, notice, or demand on financial institutions.
                    
                        655.031
                        
                    Administrative enforcement guidelines.
                    
                        655.032
                        
                    Investigations, subpoenas, hearings, and witnesses.
                    
                        655.0321
                        
                    Restricted access to certain hearings, proceedings, and related documents.
                    
                        655.0322
                        
                    Prohibited acts and practices; criminal penalties.
                    
                        655.033
                        
                    Cease and desist orders.
                    
                        655.034
                        
                    Injunctions.
                    
                        655.037
                        
                    Removal of a financial institution-affiliated party by the office.
                    
                        655.0385
                        
                    Disapproval of directors and executive officers.
                    
                        655.03855
                        
                    Provisional directors and executive officers.
                    
                        655.0386
                        
                    Transactions with financial institution-affiliated parties.
                    
                        655.0391
                        
                    Retention of supervision by office.
                    
                        655.0392
                        
                    Place of transacting business.
                    
                        655.041
                        
                    Administrative fines; enforcement.
                    
                        655.043
                        
                    Articles of incorporation; amendments; approval.
                    
                        655.044
                        
                    Accounting practices; bad debts ineligible to be carried as assets.
                    
                        655.045
                        
                    Examinations, reports, and internal audits; penalty.
                    
                        655.047
                        
                    Assessments; financial institutions.
                    
                        655.049
                        
                    Deposit of fees and assessments.
                    
                        655.057
                        
                    Records; limited restrictions upon public access.
                    
                        655.059
                        
                    Access to books and records; confidentiality; penalty for disclosure.
                    
                        655.061
                        
                    Competitive equality with federally organized or chartered financial institutions.
                    
                        655.071
                        
                    International banking facilities; definitions; notice before establishment.
                    
                        655.41
                        
                     Definitions.
                    
                        655.411
                        
                    Conversion of charter.
                    
                        655.412
                        
                    Merger and consolidation.
                    
                        655.414
                        
                    Acquisition of assets; assumption of liabilities.
                    
                        655.416
                        
                    Book value of assets.
                    
                        655.417
                        
                    Effect of merger, consolidation, conversion, or acquisition.
                    
                        655.418
                        
                    Nonconforming activities; cessation.
                    
                        655.4185
                        
                    Emergency action.
                    
                        655.419
                        
                    Effect.
                    
                        655.50
                        
                    Florida Control of Money Laundering in Financial Institutions Act; reports of transactions involving currency or monetary instruments; when required; purpose; definitions; penalties.
                    
                        655.51
                        
                    Employment information.
                    
                        655.55
                        
                    Law applicable to deposits in and contracts relating to extensions of credit by a deposit or lending institution located in this state.
                    
                        655.56
                        
                    Collection of fines, interest, or premiums on loans made by financial institutions.
                    
                        655.60
                        
                    Appraisals.
                    
                        655.762
                        
                    Sale of assets.
                    
                        655.769
                        
                    Definitions of terms used in ss. 655.77-655.91.
                    
                        655.77
                        
                    Deposits by minors.
                    
                        655.78
                        
                    Deposit accounts in two or more names.
                    
                        655.79
                        
                    Deposits and accounts in two or more names; presumption as to vesting on death.
                    
                        655.80
                        
                    Convenience accounts.
                    
                        655.82
                        
                    Pay-on-death accounts.
                    
                        655.825
                        
                    Deposits in trust; applicability of s. 655.82 in place of former s. 655.81.
                    
                        655.83
                        
                    Adverse claim to a deposit or fiduciary account.
                    
                        655.84
                        
                    Limitations; statements as correct.
                    
                        655.85
                        
                    Settlement of checks.
                    
                        655.851
                        
                    Unclaimed credit balances.
                    
                        655.86
                        
                    Issuance of postdated checks.
                    
                        655.89
                        
                    Legal holidays; business days; business and transactions.
                    
                        655.90
                        
                    Closing during emergencies and other special days.
                    
                        655.91
                        
                    Records of institutions and copies thereof; retention and destruction.
                    
                        655.921
                        
                    Transaction of business by out-of-state financial institutions; exempt transactions in the financial institutions codes.
                    
                        655.922
                        
                    Banking business by unauthorized persons; use of name.
                    
                        655.93
                        
                    Definitions for ss. 655.93-655.94.
                    
                        655.931
                        
                    Authority to engage in safe-deposit business.
                    
                        655.932
                        
                    Lease to minor.
                    
                        655.933
                        
                    Access by fiduciaries.
                    
                        655.934
                        
                    Effect of lesseeās death or incapacity.
                    
                        655.935
                        
                    Search procedure on death of lessee.
                    
                        655.936
                        
                    Delivery of safe-deposit box contents or property held in safekeeping to personal representative.
                    
                        655.937
                        
                    Access to safe-deposit boxes leased in two or more names.
                    
                        655.938
                        
                    Adverse claims to contents of safe-deposit box.
                    
                        655.939
                        
                    Limiting right of access for failure to comply with security procedures.
                    
                        655.94
                        
                    Special remedies for nonpayment of rent.
                    
                        655.942
                        
                    Standards of conduct; institutions.
                    
                        655.943
                        
                    Applications; verification.
                    
                        655.946
                        
                    Single interest insurance placed by financial institutions.
                    
                        655.947
                        
                    Debt cancellation products.
                    
                        655.948
                        
                    Significant events; notice required.
                    
                        655.949
                        
                    Personnel; qualifications.
                    
                        655.954
                        
                    Financial institution loans; credit cards.
                    
                        655.960
                        
                    Definitions; ss. 655.960-655.965.
                    
                        655.961
                        
                    Violation of specified provisions not negligence per se.
                    
                        655.962
                        
                    Lighting; mirrors; landscaping.
                    
                        655.963
                        
                    Access devices.
                    
                        655.964
                        
                    Application.
                    
                        655.965
                        
                    Preemption; prohibition.
                    
                        655.966
                        
                    Automated teller machine; surcharge disclosure.
                    
                        655.967
                        
                    State-funded endowments.
                    
                        655.968
                        
            Financial institutions; transactions relating to Iran or terrorism.