Section 7-5.1. Definitions  


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  • (a)  A  "beneficiary" is a person who is described by a depositor as a
      person for whom a trust account is established or maintained.
        (b) A "depositor" is a person in whose name a trust account subject to
      this part is established or maintained.
        (c) A "financial institution"  is  a  bank,  trust  company,  national
      banking  association,  savings  bank,  industrial  bank, private banker,
      foreign banking corporation, federal savings  and  loan  association,  a
      savings  institution  chartered  and supervised as a savings and loan or
      similar institution under federal law or the laws of a state, a  federal
      credit  union, or a credit union chartered and supervised under the laws
      of a state.
        (d) A "trust  account"  includes  a  savings,  share,  certificate  or
      deposit  account  in  a financial institution established by a depositor
      describing himself as  trustee  for  another,  other  than  a  depositor
      describing  himself  as  acting  under a will, trust instrument or other
      instrument, court order or decree.