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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="9-1105" title_number="9" title_name="Savings and Loan Associations" subtitle_number="11" subtitle_name="Mutual Association Conversion to a Credit Union">
  <level label="a">
    <text>To convert to a credit union, the mutual association shall deliver to the Commissioner:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A written application for conversion in the form that the Maryland Department of Labor requires;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any additional exhibits the Department may require;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Any filing fee set by the Department by regulation; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Its proposed amended articles and bylaws.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Upon receipt of an application to convert, the Commissioner shall examine the mutual association.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The examination shall include, but not be limited to, the following:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The financial history and condition of the mutual association including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The identification of overvalued assets, undisclosed nonperforming loans, and understated liabilities;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The identification of assets that may become nonperforming assets upon conversion;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The identification of loans in default and loans past due over 60 days;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Review of material litigation affecting the mutual association, and the identification of significant judgments, orders or decrees affecting its financial status; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Review of mortgage contracts, participating loans, and other commitments; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The management of the association.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>As a condition of approval of an application of conversion, the Commissioner may require a mutual association to have its books and records audited and certified under § 9–502 of this title.</text>
  </level>
</section>
