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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="6-309" title_number="6" title_name="Credit Unions" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Formation, Organization, and Powers">
  <level label="a">
    <text>When filing the articles of incorporation and bylaws with the Commissioner under § 6-307 of this subtitle, the incorporators shall file with the Commissioner an initial application on a form that the Commissioner requires.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The initial application shall include:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The field of membership type requested;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A detailed description of the field of membership;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A mission statement;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A detailed business plan that includes the items that the Commissioner reasonably requires; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Any other information that the Commissioner reasonably requires.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In connection with an initial application and at any other time the Commissioner requests, each incorporator and director shall provide fingerprints for use by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to conduct criminal history records checks.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any incorporator or director required by this subsection to provide fingerprints shall pay any processing or other fee required by the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The fingerprinting and criminal history records check requirements shall apply to any other official or officer of the credit union as requested by the Commissioner.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
