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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="3-305" title_number="3" title_name="Banking Institutions -- Commercial Banks" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Capital Stock; Surplus Requirements; Stockholders">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A reduction of the outstanding capital stock of a commercial bank:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is not valid unless approved by the Commissioner; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>May not be made to an amount that is less than that required in § 3-209(b) of this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Commissioner shall base approval on a finding that the assets of the commercial bank remaining after the proposed reduction of its capital stock will be sufficient to pay all of the claims of existing creditors.</text>
  </level>
</section>
