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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="5-1106" title_number="5" title_name="Banking Institutions -- General Provisions" subtitle_number="11" subtitle_name="Savings and Loan Associations -- Emergency Interstate Acquisitions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, the Commissioner may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Exercise any State regulatory approval that may be required to complete a plan of acquisition under this subtitle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Waive any procedural requirements, including publication and hearing procedures, if the Commissioner determines that prompt approval of the application protects the best interests of the depositors and creditors of the savings and loan association to be acquired under this subtitle and is in the public interest.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Commissioner shall give notice in the Maryland Register of the final action that has been taken on an application filed under this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
</section>
