Tex. Finance Code § 123.003
This is the official text of Tex. Finance Code § 123.003, part of Texas’s Finance Code — regulates banks and other financial institutions.
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§ 123.003. ENLARGEMENT OF POWERS.
Official statutory text
(a) A credit union may engage in any activity in which it could engage, exercise any power it could exercise, or make any loan or investment it could make, if it were operating as a federal credit union.
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, and in addition to the powers and authorities conferred under Subsection (a), a credit union has the powers or authorities of a foreign credit union operating a branch in this state if the commissioner finds that exercise of those powers or authorities is convenient for and affords an advantage to the credit union's members and maintains the fairness of competition and parity between the credit union and any foreign credit union. A credit union does not have the field of membership powers or authorities of a foreign credit union operating a branch in this state.
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, and in addition to the powers and authorities conferred under Subsection (a), a credit union has the powers or authorities of a foreign credit union operating a branch in this state if the commissioner finds that exercise of those powers or authorities is convenient for and affords an advantage to the credit union's members and maintains the fairness of competition and parity between the credit union and any foreign credit union. A credit union does not have the field of membership powers or authorities of a foreign credit union operating a branch in this state.
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