Limitations on lending authority.
Section 18
SEC. 18. Limitations on lending authority.— (a) An association shall not commit itself to make any loans for amounts in excess of the total of the following amounts: (1) amount of cash available for loan purposes; (2) amount of cash which can be readily realized upon the sale or redemption of permissible investment made by the association; (3) amount of credit available for loan purposes from government or private financing institutions. (b) No association shall directly or indirectly make any loans to any director, officer or employee of such association, either for himself or as agent or as partner of another (c) No association shall make any loan to any corporation of which a majority of the stock is owned or controlled directly or indirectly, by any one or more of the directors or officers of such association collectively. (d) No association shall loan any of its fund upon the security of its own stock.