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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="8-303" title_number="8" title_name="Savings and Loan Associations -- Board of Commissioners and Division" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Division of Savings and Loan Associations">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Division Director shall adopt regulations necessary to accomplish the policies set forth in § 8–102 of this title.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Without limiting the authority conferred by subsection (a) of this section, the Division Director may adopt regulations consistent with the provisions of this title and Title 9 of this article with respect to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Any powers conferred on the Division Director in this title and Title 9 of this article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Reserve requirements;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Stock ownership and dividends;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Stock transfers (change of control);</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Incorporators, controlling persons, directors, officers, employees, and agents of a savings and loan association;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Bylaws;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Related entities;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>The structure of the office of the Division;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>The operation, conduct, and management of savings and loan associations;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>Withdrawable accounts, savings accounts and plans, and contracts for savings programs;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>Loans and loan expenses, including underwriting procedures;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="12">
      <text>Investments;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="13">
      <text>Forms and definitions;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="14">
      <text>Types of financial records to be maintained by savings and loan associations;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="15">
      <text>Retention periods of various financial records of savings and loan associations;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="16">
      <text>Internal control procedures of savings and loan associations;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="17">
      <text>Chartering and branching;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="18">
      <text>Liquidations;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="19">
      <text>Mergers;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="20">
      <text>Conversions;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="21">
      <text>Reports which may be required by the Division Director;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="22">
      <text>Conflicts of interest;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="23">
      <text>Accounting rules;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="24">
      <text>Issuance of orders;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="25">
      <text>Removal of directors, officers, and employees;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="26">
      <text>Advertising; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="27">
      <text>Enforcement remedies relating to limitations on interest rates on deposits.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Without limiting the authority conferred by subsection (a) of this section, directors and officers of savings and loan associations shall develop and implement, by December 31, 1989, written:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Real estate appraisal policies; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Procedures pertaining to the hiring and performance of real estate appraisers.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The procedures required under subsection (c)(2) of this section shall set forth specific factors to be considered by the savings and loan association’s directors and officers, including but not limited to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Whether the appraiser is licensed or certified under the Business Occupations and Professions Article; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The real estate appraiser’s:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Professional education; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Experience in real estate appraising.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Real estate appraisal policies and procedures shall be submitted by the savings and loan associations to the Division Director for review and approval.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The regulations adopted by the Division Director may include reasonable requirements and limitations on the types and amounts of investments, the manner of raising capital, and the nature and amounts of reserves, irrespective of their effects on free economic competition.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>If the Division Director believes that a savings and loan association or any of its controlling persons, directors, officers, agents, or employees has violated any provision of this title or Title 9 that relates to the association, the Division Director immediately shall report the violation to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Secretary of Labor;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Governor; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Attorney General, who shall take the appropriate steps to institute an investigation or other appropriate action for the violation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>The Division Director may provide advisory opinions on conflicts of interest on request.</text>
  </level>
</section>
