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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="3-607" title_number="3" title_name="Banking Institutions -- Commercial Banks" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Miscellaneous Regulations">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Demand deposit” means a deposit that is payable within 30 days.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>“Time deposit” means a deposit that is payable after 30 days.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Time deposit” includes a savings account or certificate of deposit that requires at least a 30–day notice before payment.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>This section does not apply to any deposit of public funds for which the commercial bank pledges collateral.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A commercial bank shall have at all times a reserve equal to at least 15 percent of its demand deposits.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The board of directors of a commercial bank by resolution shall direct the commercial bank to keep the demand deposit reserve required by this section in:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Cash on hand;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Demand deposits in a bank of good standing in any state; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>As to 5 percent of its demand deposits, on approval of the Commissioner:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Registered or coupon bonds; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>General obligations of or obligations guaranteed by the United States government, an agency of the United States government, this State, or any political subdivision.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A commercial bank shall have at all times a reserve equal to at least 3 percent of its time deposits.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The board of directors of a commercial bank by resolution shall direct the commercial bank to keep the time deposit reserves required by this section in:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Cash on hand;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Deposits in a bank of good standing in any state; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Direct obligations of the United States government or of this State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If the Commissioner determines that a change in the demand deposit reserve or in the time deposit reserve requirements is advisable to maintain sound banking practices or to prevent injurious credit expansion or contraction, the Commissioner may change the requirements as provided in this subsection.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (3) of this subsection, the Commissioner may adopt rules or regulations to change the requirements as to reserves for commercial banks.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The rules and regulations may:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Increase the demand deposit reserve to an amount equal to not more than 30 percent of those deposits;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Increase the time deposit reserve to an amount equal to not more than 6 percent of those deposits;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Decrease the demand deposit reserve to an amount equal to not less than 15 percent of those deposits;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Decrease the time deposit reserve to an amount equal to not less than 3 percent of those deposits; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Notwithstanding items (i) through (iv) of this paragraph, increase or decrease the demand deposit reserve or time deposit reserve to conform to the reserve requirements that apply to a member bank of the Federal Reserve System.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
