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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="5-503" title_number="5" title_name="Banking Institutions -- General Provisions" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Miscellaneous Regulations">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A banking institution may buy and hold real property only as provided in this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to the limitations in paragraph (3) of this subsection, a banking institution may buy or hold any real property that is necessary for the convenient transaction of its business.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In addition to its offices, this property may include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A parking lot that the banking institution provides, with or without charge, primarily for the use of its customers; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Any rental space that is located in the bank building or on adjoining land.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (4) of this subsection, a banking institution may not invest in its bank building and furnishings more than an amount that equals 50 percent of its unimpaired capital and surplus or guaranty fund.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>If a banking institution is rated CAMELS 1 or 2 and remains well capitalized in accordance with the requirements of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, it may invest in its bank building and furnishings an amount equivalent to 75 percent of its:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Unimpaired capital, surplus, and undivided profits; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Guaranty fund and undivided profits.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to the limitations in paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsection, a banking institution may hold any real property that the banking institution acquires:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>In satisfaction of a debt contracted in the course of its business; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>At sale on a judgment, decree, or mortgage foreclosure under a security that it holds.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>At a sale, a banking institution may not bid more than the amount of money that is necessary to satisfy the secured debts and costs.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A banking institution:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>May not hold property acquired under this subsection for more than:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>8 years; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Under conditions that the Commissioner sets, 2 additional years; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Within 1 year after that period, shall:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Sell the property; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Reduce the value of the property on its books to a value that the Commissioner approves.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
