§ 45-3-520 — Redemption of accounts

(a) At any time funds are on hand for the purpose, the association shall have the right to redeem by lot or otherwise, as the board of directors may determine, all or any part of any of its deposit accounts on an interest date by giving thirty (30) days' notice by registered mail addressed to each affected depositor at the depositor's last address as recorded on the books of the association. (b) (1) No association shall redeem any of its accounts when the association is in an impaired condition or when it has any delinquent applications for withdrawal on file that have not been paid in full. (2) The redemption price of an account shall be the withdrawal value of the account redeemed, or such greater price as determined by the board of directors. (3) If the notice of redemption has been duly given, and if on or before the redemption date the funds necessary for the redemption has been set aside so as to be and continue to be available therefor, interest upon the accounts called for redemption shall cease to accrue from and after the interest date specified as the redemption date, and all rights with respect to the accounts shall immediately, after the redemption date, terminate, except only any right of depositors of record to receive the redemption price without additional accrual of interest after the redemption date. (c) All account books or other evidence of deposit accounts that have been validly called for redemption must be tendered for payment within seven (7) years from the date of redemption designated in the redemption notice; otherwise, they shall be cancelled, the funds set aside for the accounts shall become the property of the association, and all claims of the former depositors against the association shall be barred forever.

Legislative History

Acts 1978, ch. 708, § 2.20; T.C.A., § 45-1420.