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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="4-803" title_number="4" title_name="Banking Institutions -- Savings Banks" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Mutual Holding Companies">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The savings bank shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>File with the Commissioner for examination the application for approval of reorganization; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>At the time of filing of an application for approval of reorganization, pay to the Commissioner a fee of $1,500.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Commissioner shall investigate the proposed articles of incorporation of the subsidiary savings bank and determine if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The articles are framed in accordance with law;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The character, responsibility, and general fitness of the incorporators and directors named in the articles command confidence and warrant belief that the business of the proposed subsidiary savings bank will be conducted honestly and efficiently in accordance with the intent of this article; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Allowing the proposed subsidiary savings bank to engage in business:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Will promote public convenience and advantage; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Is expedient and desirable.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>After investigating the proposed articles of incorporation of the subsidiary savings bank, the Commissioner may require any change in the articles of incorporation that the Commissioner considers necessary.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>As to the proposed articles of incorporation of the subsidiary savings bank:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Within 3 months after the application is filed for examination, the Commissioner shall sign, date, and endorse each copy of the articles of incorporation as “approved” or “refused”.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If formation of the subsidiary savings bank is refused, the Commissioner shall return one of the endorsed copies of the articles of incorporation to the incorporators.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If formation of the subsidiary savings bank is approved, the Commissioner shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Return one of the endorsed copies of the articles of incorporation to the incorporators; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Keep and record one of the endorsed copies.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Within 3 months after the application for approval of reorganization is filed for examination, the Commissioner shall approve or reject the application. The Commissioner may not approve the application unless the Commissioner determines:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>That the plan of reorganization is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Reasonably required to protect the welfare of the general economy of this State;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Not detrimental to the public interest or the savings bank; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>In compliance with the regulations and conditions that the Commissioner adopts;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>That if the reorganization is pursuant to an acquisition by the mutual holding company of all the stock of a savings and loan association:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Exigent circumstances exist that make the acquisition necessary to maintain the viability or prevent the probable failure of the savings and loan association acquired; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The mutual holding company agrees to obtain federal insurance for the deposits of the acquired savings and loan association within the time limitation imposed by the Commissioner;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>That immediately before the reorganization, the depositors of the savings bank are entitled to deposits in the subsidiary savings bank of like amounts, interest rates, and other terms, without interruption of interest;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>That all deposits continue to be insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation up to the maximum amount provided by law; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>That the applicant has met all the requirements of this subtitle and Subtitle 9 of this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
