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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="6-331" title_number="6" title_name="Credit Unions" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Formation, Organization, and Powers">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “compensation” means anything of value given to an official that is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>In exchange for services performed as an official; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Reportable as income to the Internal Revenue Service or the Comptroller of the State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Each official is entitled to the compensation that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, the members authorize; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Except as provided in subsection (d)(2) of this section, is approved by the Commissioner.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>All compensation to be paid under subsection (b) of this section shall be authorized by a vote of the members at the annual meeting of the membership in accordance with § 6–317 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Written disclosure of the proposed compensation and each official’s expenses shall be made to all members in good standing not less than 30 days and not more than 90 days before the annual meeting of members.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The written disclosure required under paragraph (2) of this subsection shall contain at least the following information:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The proposed dollar amount of compensation that will be paid to each official on a per meeting or other applicable basis;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The aggregate dollar amount of compensation paid to all officials for the 12 months immediately preceding the date of the notice of the annual meeting of members;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <level label="1">
          <text>A reasonable estimate of the aggregate dollar amount of compensation to be paid to all officials for the following 12–month period assuming:</text>
        </level>
        <level label="A">
          <text>That the proposed compensation is approved; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="B">
          <text>The same number of meetings as were held during the 12 months immediately preceding the date of the notice of the annual meeting of members; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>A statement that the compensation to be paid to all officials will remain the same as it was during the 12 months immediately preceding the date of the notice of the annual meeting of members; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>The aggregate dollar amount of all officials’ expenses, excluding compensation, for the 12 months immediately preceding the date of the notice of the annual meeting of members.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The written disclosure shall be conspicuously set apart from other information provided to the members.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The written disclosure may be included in:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>The notice of the annual meeting of the members;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>A separate mailing;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>A periodic statement of account; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>A periodic publication of the credit union.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>All requests for the Commissioner’s approval under subsection (b) of this section shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Be made in writing; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Contain a certification by the president of the credit union that the compensation has been authorized by the membership in accordance with subsection (c) of this section.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Commissioner’s approval is not required if the credit union:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Was rated “1” or “2” as of the last examination conducted by the Commissioner; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Has a positive net income as of the end of the previous calendar year.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
