Iowa Code § 524.211 - Prohibitions relating to banking division personnel

1. The superintendent, general counsel, examiners, and other employees assigned to the bank bureau of the banking division are prohibited from obtaining a loan of money or property from a state bank, or any person or entity affiliated with a state bank, unless they do not personally participate in the examination, oversight, or official review concerning the regulation of the state bank. 2. The superintendent, general counsel, examiners, and other employees assigned to the finance bureau of the banking division are prohibited from obtaining a loan of money or property from a person or entity licensed pursuant to chapter 533A, 533D, 536, or 536A, or a person or entity affiliated with such licensee. 3. The superintendent, general counsel, examiners, and other employees of the banking division, who have credit relations with a person or entity licensed or registered pursuant to chapter 535B, 535D, or 536C, are prohibited from participating in decisions, oversight, and official review of matters concerning the regulation of the licensee or registrant. 4. Examiners and other employees assigned to the bank bureau of the banking division who have credit relations with a person or entity licensed pursuant to chapter 533A, 533D, 536, or 536A, or with a person or entity affiliated with such licensee, are prohibited from participating in decisions, oversight, and official review of matters concerning the regulation of the licensee. 5. An employee of the banking division, other than the superintendent or a member of the state banking council, shall not perform any services for, and shall not be a shareholder, member, partner, owner, director, officer, or employee of, any enterprise, person, or affiliate subject to the regulatory purview of the banking division. 6. For the purposes of this section and section 524.212, an affiliate of a person other than a state bank shall include any corporation, trust, estate, association or other similar organization: a. Of which such person, directly or indirectly, owns or controls either a majority of the voting shares or more than fifty percent of the number of shares voted for the election of its directors, trustees, or other individuals exercising similar functions at the preceding election, or controls in any manner the election of a majority of its directors, trustees or other individuals exercising similar functions. b. Of which control is held, directly or indirectly, through share ownership or in any other manner, by the shareholders of such person who own or control either a majority of the shares of such person or more than fifty percent of the number of shares voted for the election of directors of such person at the preceding election or by trustees for the benefit of the shareholders of any such person. c. Of which a majority of its directors, trustees, or other individuals exercising similar functions are directors of any one such person. d. Which owns or controls, directly or indirectly, either a majority of the voting shares of such person or more than fifty percent of the total number of shares voted for the election of directors of such person at the preceding election, or controls in any manner the election of a majority of the directors of such person, or for the benefit of whose shareholders or members all or substantially all of the outstanding voting shares of such person is held by trustees. 7. The superintendent, examiners, or other employees who are convicted of a felony while holding such position shall be immediately discharged from employment and shall be forever disqualified from holding any position in the banking division. 8. The superintendent shall not participate in the examination, oversight, or official review concerning the regulation of any state bank or any other enterprise, person, or affiliate subject to the regulatory purview of the banking division of which the superintendent is a shareholder, member, partner, owner, director, officer, or employee. The superintendent shall recuse themselves from participation in any such examination, oversight, or official review and the state banking council shall designate a member who satisfies the qualifications identified in section 524.201, subsection 1, and who is not a shareholder, member, partner, owner, director, officer, or employee of the regulated entity to act in place of the superintendent. [C97, §1875, 1876; SS15, §1875; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §9146; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, §524.18; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §524.211; 81 Acts, ch 172, §1] 95 Acts, ch 148, §11 – 13; 96 Acts, ch 1056, §3; 2004 Acts, ch 1141, §10; 2006 Acts, ch 1177, §33; 2007 Acts, ch 88, §3; 2008 Acts, ch 1160, §3; 2011 Acts, ch 102, §1; 2012 Acts, ch 1017, §106; 2022 Acts, ch 1062, §14, 15; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §2026 Referred to in §524.1611