Washington Administrative Code
Title 208 - Financial Institutions, Department of (See also Titles 50, 419, and 460)
Chapter 208-512 - Banks and trust companies
Section 208-512-100 - Leasing bank premises - Limitations
Universal Citation: WA Admin Code 208-512-100
Current through Register Vol. 24-18, September 15, 2024
(1) A bank may lease part of the premises in which it conducts its day-to-day business to persons engaged in nonbanking business activities subject to the following limitations:
(a) No director, officer, or employee of such
bank may have any direct or indirect financial interest exceeding ten percent
of the lessee's business activities conducted on the premises leased, unless
the transaction is made on substantially the same terms as those prevailing at
the same time for comparable transactions by the bank with other persons who
are not affiliated with the institution, and the transaction has been approved
in advance by a majority of the board of the directors of the
institution;
(b) No bank may
receive commissions or other revenues from the lessee other than periodic
rental payments received under terms that are usual and customary in leasing
space used for similar commercial purposes, as determined by the
director;
(c) No lessee may have
access to secure areas of the bank's premises and a lessee may not conduct
business activities on the secure areas of the bank's premises other than
during regular banking hours;
(d)
No bank may exercise managerial control over the lessee's business activities
or assume, guarantee, or otherwise become obligated for the lessee's debts or
legal obligations;
(e) No bank may
advertise a lessee's business activities conducted on such bank's premises as a
service provided by the bank, or otherwise represent that the lessee's business
activities are not independently owned and operated;
(f) No bank may use tying arrangements
involving the sale of a lessee's goods or services offered on such bank's
premises or in any other way require purchase of a lessee's goods or services
as a condition for granting credit or performing services.
(2) For purposes of this section, the term "bank " means any person or corporation operating under the provisions of Title 30A, 32, or 33 RCW directly or indirectly affiliated with the lessor.
Statutory Authority: RCW 30.04.030 and 43.320.040. 00-17-141, recodified as § 208-512-100, filed 8/22/00, effective 9/22/00. Statutory Authority: RCW 30.12.060. 85-19-052 (Order 62), § 50-12-100, filed 9/13/85.
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