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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="5-1001" title_number="5" title_name="Banking Institutions -- General Provisions" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Branch Banking">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Affiliate” means any company that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another company.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Bank” has the meaning stated in the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, 12 U.S.C. § 1813(a)(1).</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Bank supervisory agency” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, or any successor to these agencies; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An agency of another state with primary responsibility for chartering and supervising banks.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Branch” means a bank office open to the public at which deposits are received, checks are paid, or money is lent.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Branch” includes a mobile branch or other special-purpose facility that performs a function of a branch.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Branch” does not include an automated teller machine as defined in § 1-401 of this article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Commercial activities” means activities in which a bank holding company, a financial holding company, a national bank, or a national bank financial subsidiary may not engage under federal law.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“De novo branch” means a branch of an out-of-state bank or banking institution that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is originally established by the out-of-state bank or banking institution as a branch; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Does not become a branch of the out-of-state bank or banking institution as a result of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The acquisition by the out-of-state bank or banking institution of an insured depository institution or a branch of an insured depository institution; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The conversion, merger, or consolidation of an insured depository institution or a branch of an insured depository institution.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Home state” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>As to a national banking association, the state in which its main office is located; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>As to a state-chartered bank, the state by which it is chartered.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Home state regulator” means the agency in a bank’s home state with primary responsibility for chartering and regulating banks.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Host state” means a state, other than the home state of a bank, in which the bank maintains or seeks to establish a branch.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Insured depository institution” means any financial institution the deposits of which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <text>“National banking association” means a bank chartered under the National Bank Act.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="m">
    <text>“Other-state bank” means a bank chartered and primarily regulated by another state.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="n">
    <text>“Out-of-state bank” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A national banking association with its main office in a state other than this State; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An other-state bank.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
