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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="3-710" title_number="3" title_name="Banking Institutions -- Commercial Banks" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Consolidations, Mergers, and Transfers of Assets">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The successor shall act promptly to file and record the agreement in the same manner as required for articles of incorporation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>One of the following certificates may be recorded in any office where deeds are recorded to evidence the new name in which the property of the constituent banks is held:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A certificate of consolidation, merger, or transfer of assets that the Commissioner issues;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A certificate that the Comptroller of the Currency of the United States or the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision issues to effect a merger or consolidation in which a national banking association or a federally chartered savings bank or savings and loan association is the successor; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A certificate of consolidation, merger, or transfer of assets issued by the bank supervisory agency of the State by which an other-state bank is chartered.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
