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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="5-405" title_number="5" title_name="Banking Institutions -- General Provisions" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Affiliates and Bank Service Corporations">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as provided in this section, or otherwise expressly provided by State law, a banking institution may not have a bank service corporation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>If the Commissioner approves, a banking institution may have a bank service corporation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>On application of the banking institution, a bank service corporation shall be approved if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Commissioner determines that approval is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Reasonably required to protect the welfare of the general economy of the State and of the banking institution; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Not detrimental to the public interest or to the banking institution;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The approval imposes the same conditions that federal law requires or permits as to a bank service corporation owned exclusively by national banking associations; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The transaction complies with the rules, regulations, and conditions that the Commissioner adopts.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>This section does not apply to any bank service corporation organized before July 1, 1984.</text>
  </level>
</section>
