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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="5-206" title_number="5" title_name="Banking Institutions -- General Provisions" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Examinations and Reports">
  <level label="a">
    <text>At least twice a year, the Commissioner shall ask every banking institution to submit a financial report that shows in detail the assets and liabilities of the institution as of the close of the business day that the Commissioner specifies.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Commissioner shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Provide forms that conform as closely as practicable to the forms that the federal banking authorities use; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Accept from a banking institution a copy of a reasonably recent report that the institution submitted to a federal banking authority.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Within 30 days after a banking institution receives the request for a financial report, the institution shall submit the report.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Each report shall be signed and verified by the president, vice president, cashier, or treasurer of the banking institution.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Upon the written request of a banking institution, the Commissioner may permit the financial reports required by this section to be electronically submitted provided that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The appropriate federal banking authority has approved electronic submission of the report as satisfactory for its requirements;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The report is submitted through a federally approved vendor; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The banking institution retains, for at least 2 years, a copy of the report, signed and verified by the president, vice president, cashier, or treasurer of the banking institution.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
