# Financial Institutions (GFI)

## Title 9. Savings and Loan Associations

### Subtitle 2. Incorporation

#### Section 9-203

The name of a savings and loan association:

(1) Need not indicate that it is a corporation;

(2) Shall contain one of the following phrases or any combination of the words:

  (i) "Savings association";

  (ii) "Building association";

  (iii) "Savings and loan association"; or

  (iv) "Building and loan association";

(3) May not be similar in any material or misleading respect to the name of any other State or federal savings and loan association, except that a savings and loan association in operation before July 1, 1980 may continue to operate under its existing name; and

(4) May not include the words "commercial", "federal", "government", "guaranteed", "insured", "Maryland", "national", "trust", "trustee", or "United States", except that a savings and loan association in operation before July 1, 1986 may continue to operate under its existing name.

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Md. Code Ann., Fin. Inst. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)