Notice to a state savings bank of an adverse claim to a deposit account on the books of the state savings bank to the credit of a person does not cause the state savings bank to recognize the adverse claimant unless the adverse claimant also either: (1) procures a restraining order, injunction, or other appropriate process against the state savings bank from a court in a case instituted by him in which the person to whose credit the account stands is made a party and served with process; or (2) executes to the state savings bank, in a form and amount and with sureties acceptable to it, a bond indemnifying the state savings bank from and against all liability, loss, damage, costs, and expenses, for and on account of the payment of the adverse claim or the dishonor of a draft or other order by the person to whose credit the account stands on the books of the state savings bank. HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 90, Section 1, eff June 10, 1997.
South Carolina Legal Code