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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>84320</law_id><section_number>6.2-1300</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>38.2-3737</reference><reference>6.2-1602</reference><reference>6.2-300</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="6.2">Financial Institutions and Services</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Depository Institutions and Trust Organizations</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="13">Credit Unions</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Capital</span>&#x201D; means the sum of <span class="dictionary">share accounts</span>, <span class="dictionary">reserves</span>, and undivided earnings of a credit union.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Corporate credit union</span>&#x201D; means a credit union whose field of membership consists primarily of other <span class="dictionary">credit unions</span>.
		&#x201C;Credit union&#x201D; means a cooperative, nonprofit corporation organized under the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the Commonwealth and authorized to do business under this chapter for the purposes of encouraging thrift among its <span class="dictionary">members</span>, creating a source of credit at fair and reasonable rates of interest, providing an opportunity for its <span class="dictionary">members</span> to use and control their own money on a democratic basis in <span class="dictionary">order</span> to improve their economic and social condition, and conducting any other business, engaging in any other activity, and providing any other service that may be of benefit to its <span class="dictionary">members</span>, consistent with the provisions of this chapter and any regulations adopted by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> under this chapter.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Credit union service organization</span>&#x201D; means any organization, corporation, or association, if (i) the membership or ownership, as the case may be, of such organization, corporation, or association is primarily confined or restricted to <span class="dictionary">credit unions</span> or organizations of <span class="dictionary">credit unions</span> and (ii) the purpose for which such organization, corporation, or association is organized is to strengthen or advance the development of <span class="dictionary">credit unions</span> or credit union organizations.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Household</span>&#x201D; means those individuals who are related by blood, marriage, or other recognized family relationship and who live in the same house or other place of residence.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Immediate family</span>&#x201D; means the individuals in a <span class="dictionary">household</span> who are related by blood, marriage, or other recognized family relationship. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Immediate family</span>&#x201D; also includes, regardless of their place of residence, the children, grandchildren, grandparents, parents, siblings, and spouse of an individual.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Insuring organization</span>&#x201D; means an organization that provides aid and financial assistance to <span class="dictionary">credit unions</span> that are in the process of <span class="dictionary">liquidation</span> or are incurring financial difficulty in <span class="dictionary">order</span> that the <span class="dictionary">share accounts</span> in the <span class="dictionary">credit unions</span> shall be protected or guaranteed against loss up to a specified limit for each account, such as the National Credit Union Administration Share Insurance Fund, a corporation organized under Article 5 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/6.2-1331/">6.2-1331</a> et seq.), or any other share insurance provider approved by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Member</span>,&#x201D; with respect to a credit union, or &#x201C;credit union <span class="dictionary">member</span>,&#x201D; means any <span class="dictionary">person</span> holding a <span class="dictionary">share account</span> in accordance with standards specified by the credit union. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Member</span>&#x201D; may also be used to refer to an individual or other <span class="dictionary">entity</span> that is included within a group or a community, or to an individual who is part of a <span class="dictionary">household</span> or family.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Reserves</span>&#x201D; means the total of allowances for loan losses, regular, special, and any other type of funds held in reserve.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Retained earnings</span>&#x201D; means undivided earnings, regular reserve, reserve for contingencies, supplemental <span class="dictionary">reserves</span>, <span class="dictionary">reserves</span> for losses, and other appropriations from undivided earnings as designated by management or the <span class="dictionary">Bureau</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Share account</span>&#x201D; means a balance held by a credit union and established by a <span class="dictionary">member</span> in accordance with standards specified by the credit union, including balances designated as <span class="dictionary">shares</span>, share certificates, share draft accounts, or other names.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Shares</span>&#x201D; means the interest of a <span class="dictionary">member</span> having an account in a credit union.</p></section></text><history>1990, c. 373, &#xA7; 6.1-225.2; 1999, c. 63; 2010, c. 794; 2013, cc. 16, 92.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
