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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="3-306" 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 surplus of a commercial bank at any time is less than 100 percent of its capital stock, then, until the surplus is 100 percent of the capital stock, the commercial bank:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Shall transfer to its surplus annually at least 10 percent of its net earnings; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>May not declare or pay any cash dividends that exceed 90 percent of its net earnings.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Any losses of a commercial bank that exceed its undivided profits may be charged to its surplus.</text>
  </level>
</section>
