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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="3-302" title_number="3" title_name="Banking Institutions -- Commercial Banks" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Capital Stock; Surplus Requirements; Stockholders">
  <level label="a">
    <text>If the Commissioner approves, a commercial bank may issue preferred stock, in the amount and with the par value that the Commissioner approves, as provided in this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Unless otherwise provided by law, preferred stock issued under this section is not valid until the commercial bank receives the purchase price in an amount that equals at least par value.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If the Commissioner approves, preferred stock may be convertible into common stock on the terms and conditions that the charter provides. However, preferred stock is not convertible:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Into common stock of a greater total par value; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>At any time when the commercial bank would not have a surplus in an amount that equals at least 20 percent of its capital stock outstanding immediately after the conversion.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The holder of preferred stock is entitled to cumulative dividends at a rate not exceeding six percent a year of its par value.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Dividends on common stock may not be declared or paid until the cumulative dividends on the preferred stock are fully paid.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Each holder of preferred stock has the voting rights that the charter provides and the Commissioner approves.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A commercial bank may retire preferred stock in the manner and on the terms and conditions that the charter provides and the Commissioner approves.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the Commissioner approves, the commercial bank may retire its preferred stock out of any surplus above that required by this title.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The commercial bank may not have at any time less than its required capital stock.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>If a commercial bank dissolves voluntarily or a receiver is appointed for it, the holders of its common stock may not be paid until the holders of its preferred stock are paid, for each of their shares:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The amount that the charter provides, but not more than the purchase price under subsection (b) of this section and not less than the par value; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>All accumulated and unpaid dividends.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
