Title: S.L. 2002-29
Subject: Session Law 2002-29
Category: Introduced Bill 2002

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA	SESSION 2001

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001

SESSION LAW 2002-29
HOUSE BILL 1539

AN ACT to repeal an obsolete prohibition on the establishment of automated teller machines or other information‑processing devices or machines by out‑of‑state financial institutions, as recommended by the general statutes commission.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 53‑62(dl) reads as rewritten:
"(d1)	Subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the State Banking Commission with regard to their use, maintenance and supervision, any bank may establish off the premises of any principal office, branch or limited service facility a customer‑bank communications terminal, point‑of‑sale terminal, automated teller machine, automated banking facility or other direct or remote information‑processing device or machine, whether manned or unmanned, through or by means of which information relating to any financial service or transaction rendered to the public is stored and transmitted, instantaneously or otherwise, to or from a bank or other nonbank terminal; and the establishment and use of such a device or machine shall not be deemed a branch or limited service facility, and the capital requirements and standards for approval of a branch or limited service facility, all as set forth in subsections (b) and (c)  of this section, shall not be applicable to the establishment of any such off‑premises terminal device or  machine."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11^th day of July, 2002.

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved 1:46 p.m. this 22^nd day of July, 2002

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