<?xml version="1.0"?>
<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>75055</law_id><section_number>6.2-700</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>6.2-1001</reference><reference>6.2-1100</reference><reference>6.2-1602</reference><reference>6.2-800</reference><reference>6.2-803</reference><reference>6.2-809</reference><reference>6.2-822</reference><reference>6.2-874</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="7">Acquisitions of Interests in Financial Institutions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;Acquire&#x201D; means:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The merger or <span class="dictionary">consolidation</span> of one bank holding company with another bank holding company; <a id="paragraph-269585" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-700/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> The acquisition by a bank holding company of direct or indirect ownership or control of voting shares of another bank holding company or a bank, if, after such acquisition, the bank holding company making the acquisition will directly or indirectly own or control more than five percent of any class of voting shares of the other bank holding company or the bank; <a id="paragraph-269586" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-700/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> The direct or indirect acquisition by a bank holding company of all or substantially all of the <span class="dictionary">assets</span> of another bank holding company or of a bank; or <a id="paragraph-269587" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-700/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> Any other action that would result in direct or indirect control by a bank holding company of another bank holding company or a bank.
			&#x201C;Bank&#x201D; has the same meaning assigned to it in 12 U.S.C. &#xA7; 1841(c).
			&#x201C;Bank holding company&#x201D; has the meaning assigned to it in 12 U.S.C. &#xA7; 1841 (a) (1).
			&#x201C;Financial institution&#x201D; shall not include any consumer finance company or savings institution.
			&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Financial institution holding company</span>&#x201D; means any <span class="dictionary">person</span> that has control over any financial institution or that has control over any <span class="dictionary">person</span> that controls any financial institution.
			&#x201C;Home state&#x201D; means: <a id="paragraph-269588" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-700/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> With respect to a national bank, the state in which the main office is located; <a id="paragraph-269589" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-700/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> With respect to a state bank, the state by which the bank is chartered; and <a id="paragraph-269590" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-700/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> With respect to a bank holding company, the state in which the total deposits of all banking subsidiaries of such company are the largest on the later of (i) July 1, 1966, or (ii) the date on which the company becomes a bank holding company under the federal Bank Holding Company Act (12 U.S.C. &#xA7; 1841 et seq.).
			&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Out-of-state bank holding company</span>&#x201D; means a bank holding company that has as its home state a state other than the Commonwealth.
			&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Subsidiary</span>&#x201D; means an <span class="dictionary">entity</span> over which another <span class="dictionary">person</span> has control. With respect to a bank, &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">subsidiary</span>&#x201D; means: <a id="paragraph-269591" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-700/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Any <span class="dictionary">entity</span> 25 percent or more of whose voting shares, excluding shares owned by the United States or by any company wholly owned by the United States, are directly or indirectly owned or controlled by such bank holding company, or held by it with power to vote; <a id="paragraph-269592" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-700/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Any company the election of a majority of whose directors is controlled in any manner by such bank holding company; or <a id="paragraph-269593" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-700/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Any company with respect to the management or policies of which such bank holding company has the power, directly or indirectly, to exercise a controlling influence, as determined by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, after notice and opportunity for <span class="dictionary">hearing</span>.
			&#x201C;Virginia bank&#x201D; means a bank that is organized under the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the Commonwealth or of the United States and that has the Commonwealth as its home state.
			&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Virginia bank holding company</span>&#x201D; means a bank holding company that has the Commonwealth as its home state and is not controlled by a bank holding company other than a <span class="dictionary">Virginia bank holding company</span>.
			&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Virginia financial institution</span>&#x201D; means a financial institution authorized to do business in the Commonwealth.
			&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Virginia <span class="dictionary">financial institution holding company</span></span>&#x201D; means any <span class="dictionary">person</span> that has control over any financial institution authorized to do business in the Commonwealth or has control over a <span class="dictionary">person</span> that controls any such financial institution. <a id="paragraph-269594" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-700/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1978, c. 683, &#xA7; 6.1-381; 1983, c. 194; 1985, c. 544, &#xA7; 6.1-398; 1985, c. 604; 1986, c. 257; 1993, c. 58; 1994, cc. 315, 351; 1996, c. 16; 1998, c. 231; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
