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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>78611</law_id><section_number>6.2-814</section_number><catch_line>Powers of banks</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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="8">Banks</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Incorporation and Powers</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Every <span class="dictionary">bank</span> shall have power to exercise, by its board of directors or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to <span class="dictionary">law</span>, all incidental powers that are necessary to carry on the business of banking, by: <a id="paragraph-281692" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-814/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Discounting and negotiating bills of exchange, promissory notes, drafts, and other <span class="dictionary">evidences</span> of debt; <a id="paragraph-281693" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-814/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Receiving deposits; <a id="paragraph-281694" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-814/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Buying and selling exchange, coin, and bullion; <a id="paragraph-281695" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-814/#A3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> Loaning money on real property, personal property, security, or <span class="dictionary">collateral</span>; <a id="paragraph-281696" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-814/#A4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A5" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> Guaranteeing the payment of <span class="dictionary">bonds</span>, bills, notes and other obligations that have six months or fewer until maturity; <a id="paragraph-281697" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-814/#A5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A6" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> Rediscounting paper; <a id="paragraph-281698" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-814/#A6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A7" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">7.</span> Purchasing and selling <span class="dictionary">bonds</span>; <a id="paragraph-281699" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-814/#A7"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A8" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">8.</span> Acting as agent in the sale of insurance and annuities; <a id="paragraph-281700" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-814/#A8"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A9" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">9.</span> Dealing in or making a market in securities; <a id="paragraph-281701" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-814/#A9"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A10" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">10.</span> Providing financial, investment, or economic advisory services; <a id="paragraph-281702" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-814/#A10"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A11" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">11.</span> Providing other products and services deemed by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> to be financial in nature; <a id="paragraph-281703" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-814/#A11"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A12" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">12.</span> Engaging directly in those activities in which a controlled subsidiary corporation of a <span class="dictionary">bank</span> is authorized to engage pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Investment in stock or securities of controlled subsidiary corporations" href="/6.2-885/">6.2-885</a> and <a class="law" title="Real estate brokerage business of controlled subsidiary" href="/6.2-888/">6.2-888</a> in accordance with the requirements of such sections, provided that a <span class="dictionary">bank</span>, or a controlled subsidiary corporation of a <span class="dictionary">bank</span>, that transacts business as a real estate brokerage firm shall be subject to the provisions of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Real estate brokerage business of controlled subsidiary" href="/6.2-888/">6.2-888</a>; <a id="paragraph-281704" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-814/#A12"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A13" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">13.</span> Establishing an <span class="dictionary">international banking facility</span>, either as a division of the <span class="dictionary">bank</span> or as a separate corporate <span class="dictionary">entity</span> under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Investment in stock or securities of controlled subsidiary corporations" href="/6.2-885/">6.2-885</a>; and <a id="paragraph-281705" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-814/#A13"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A14" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">14.</span> Utilizing armored vehicles or other vehicles to provide adequate protection for the funds transported for receipt of deposits of its customers or to deliver currency and coin. <a id="paragraph-281706" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-814/#A14"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> In addition to the permissible business authorized by subsection A, the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> may, upon the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">finding</span> that an emergency exists, confer by <span class="dictionary">order</span> upon <span class="dictionary">banks</span> such temporary powers as the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> may determine to be in the public interest. Such powers as are conferred may be (i) authorized for a limited period of time, (ii) granted selectively to fewer than all <span class="dictionary">banks</span>, and (iii) revoked by further <span class="dictionary">order</span> of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>. <a id="paragraph-281707" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-814/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 6-23; 1966, c. 584, &#xA7; 6.1-11; 1968, c. 727, &#xA7; 6.1-41.1; 1978, c. 683, &#xA7; 6.1-11.1, c. 453, &#xA7; 6.1-11.2; 1987, c. 352; 2005, c. 320; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
