6-141. Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Acquisition of control" means any transaction whereby a person obtains,
directly or indirectly, control of a bank, trust company, savings and loan association or
controlling person.
2. "Control" means direct or indirect ownership of or power to vote fifteen per
cent or more of the outstanding voting securities of a bank, trust company, savings and
loan association or controlling person or to control in any manner the election of a
majority of the directors of a bank, trust company, savings and loan association or
controlling person. For the purposes of determining the percentage of voting securities
owned, controlled or held by a person, there shall be aggregated with the voting
securities attributed to such person the voting securities of any other person directly
or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with such other person
or by any officer, partner, employee or agent of such person, or by any spouse, parent or
child of such person.
3. "Controlling person" means any person directly or indirectly in control of a
bank, trust company or savings and loan association.
4. "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, trust,
agency or any similar entity.
5. "Voting security" means any security presently entitling the owner or holder of
such security to vote for the election of directors of a bank, trust company, savings and
loan association or controlling person, excluding, in the case of a savings and loan
association, votes attributable to savings accounts. A specified percentage of
outstanding voting securities means such amount of the outstanding voting securities as
entitles the holder or holders of such securities to cast that specified percentage of
the aggregate votes which the holders of all the outstanding voting securities are
entitled to cast.
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