Investment in trust company facilities

A. In this Part, "trust company facility" means real estate, including an improvement, owned, or leased to the extent the lease or the leasehold improvements are capitalized, by a trust company for the purpose of providing space for trust company employees to perform their duties and space for parking by trust company employees and customers conducting trust business, including meeting the reasonable needs and convenience of the trust company's customers, computer operations, document and other item processing, maintenance and record retention and storage, holding, improving, and occupying as an incident to future expansion of the trust company's facilities, or conducting another activity authorized by the commissioner and permitted under this Chapter. B. A trust company shall comply with generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied, in accounting for its investment in and depreciation of trust company facilities, furniture, fixtures, and equipment.