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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="10-103" title_number="10" title_name="State of Maryland Deposit Insurance Fund Corporation" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Fund Director is appointed by the Governor.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Fund Director serves at the pleasure of the Secretary of Labor.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>For a period of 2 years after termination of employment with the Fund, if the Fund Director is employed by a savings and loan association that is insured by the Fund, or becomes a director, officer, attorney, or agent of a savings and loan association that is insured by the Fund, that individual may not:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Represent, formally or informally, the association in any judicial, administrative, or other proceeding in which:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The Fund is a party; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The former Fund Director substantially participated;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Participate in any application submitted to the Fund for the Division’s approval; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Attempt to influence, or make any oral or written communication, on behalf of the association in any matter before the Fund relating to the association in which the individual participated personally and substantially as Fund Director.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>All of the corporate powers of the Fund shall be exercised by the Fund Director.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Board consists of 11 members.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Of the Board members:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>3 shall be elected by the member associations, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Labor; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>8 shall be appointed by the Governor.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>From among its members, the Board shall elect a chairman.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The Board may appoint officers as it considers advisable.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>No officer or director of the Fund, whether appointed or elected, shall be personally liable on any contract legally entered into on behalf of the Fund unless the contract, by its terms, expressly obligates that officer or director.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
