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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="5-401" title_number="5" title_name="Banking Institutions -- General Provisions" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Affiliates and Bank Service Corporations">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Affiliate” means any association, corporation, business trust, statutory trust, or other similar organization that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is not a bank service corporation and is controlled by a banking institution through:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Direct or indirect ownership or control of more than 50 percent of the voting rights;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Control of the election of a majority of the management;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Direct or indirect ownership or control of more than 50 percent of the voting rights exercised at the last election of the management;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Directors of the banking institution constituting a majority of the management of the organization; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Any direct or indirect control by stockholders of the banking institution, if the stockholders own or control:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>More than 50 percent of the voting rights in the banking institution; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>More than 50 percent of the voting rights exercised at the last election of directors of the banking institution; or</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Controls a banking institution through:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Direct or indirect ownership or control of more than 50 percent of the voting rights;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Control of the election of a majority of the directors of the banking institution;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Direct or indirect ownership or control of more than 50 percent of the voting rights exercised at the last election of the directors; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>The holding of substantially all of the capital stock of the banking institution by trustees for stockholders of the organization.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Bank service corporation” means a corporation:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>At least some of the stock of which is owned by a banking institution; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>That is organized to perform bank service corporation activities of the type permitted under applicable provisions of Title 12 of the United States Code to a bank service corporation owned exclusively by national banking associations.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Management” means the directors, trustees, or other persons exercising similar functions of an association, corporation, business trust, statutory trust, or other similar organization.</text>
  </level>
</section>
