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COMMITMENTS AND OFF-BALANCE SHEET RISK (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2013
Commitments And Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract] |
Summary of Contractual Amounts of Financial Instruments with Off-balance Sheet Risk | A summary of the contractual amounts of our financial instruments with off-balance sheet risk at September 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012 follows:
|  | September 30, 2013 |  |  | December 31, 2012 |
Commercial unused lines of credit |  | $ | 225,732,000 |  |  | $ | 222,237,000 |
Unused lines of credit secured by 1 – 4 family residential properties |  |  | 23,430,000 |  |  |  | 24,250,000 |
Credit card unused lines of credit |  |  | 8,555,000 |  |  |  | 8,512,000 |
Other consumer unused lines of credit |  |  | 6,379,000 |  |  |  | 4,613,000 |
Commitments to extend credit |  |  | 92,382,000 |  |  |  | 64,565,000 |
Standby letters of credit |  |  | 20,657,000 |  |  |  | 10,591,000 |
|  | $ | 377,135,000 |  |  | $ | 334,768,000 |

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