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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="9-217" title_number="9" title_name="Savings and Loan Associations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Incorporation">
  <text>The chairman of the incorporators shall deliver to the Division Director a bond issued by a surety company that is qualified to do business in this State. The bond shall:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>Be in the aggregate amount of the following funds, as may be applicable under § 9-216.1 of this subtitle:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>Initial subscription for savings accounts;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>Expense fund; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iii">
      <text>Initial subscription for capital stock account;</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>Name the Division Director as obligee;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>Be in the form required by the Division Director; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>Guarantee the safekeeping of the amounts collected in the initial accounts:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>For delivery to the savings and loan association if a certificate of incorporation is issued; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>If the attempt to incorporate is unsuccessful, the return to the incorporators or subscribers of the respective amounts each paid to the initial subscription for savings accounts, the initial subscription for capital stock account and, less expenses, the expense fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
