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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="9-310" title_number="9" title_name="Savings and Loan Associations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Organization and Capitalization">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section, “electronic terminal” means an automated electronic information processing device that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Stores information about a customer’s account with a savings and loan association and transmits that information to an office of the association; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Is activated by a machine-readable instrument issued to a customer.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An electronic terminal is not a branch office of a savings and loan association.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>If the Division Director approves the application of a savings and loan association under this section, an association may establish and maintain an electronic terminal at a location that may be other than its principal or any branch office.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The savings and loan association shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>File with the Division Director an application for general authority to establish one or more electronic terminals; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Pay to the Division of Savings and Loan Associations a $100 filing fee.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The application shall include as to proposed electronic terminals:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The location of each;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The physical size and other characteristics;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The capital investment;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>The security devices to be installed;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>The systems and safeguards to be used to insure confidentiality and privacy of the account information of customers; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Evidence of sufficient fidelity, forgery, and other appropriate insurance to protect the interests of the association.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Division Director shall publish a notice of the filing in the Maryland Register as provided in the State Documents Law.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Within 60 days after the application is filed, the Division Director shall approve an application only if the Division Director finds that the proposed terminal will:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Promote the public interest; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Be operated efficiently and in accordance with this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>A savings and loan association may use an electronic terminal to enable a customer of the association to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Deposit money into an account of the customer of the association;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Transfer money from any account of the customer to any other account;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Withdraw money from an account or under an authorized line of credit of a customer;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Make payments on loans; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Execute any other transaction that the Division Director approves.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>A savings and loan association may verify by direct wire transmission or otherwise any transaction that is made by means of an electronic terminal.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>A savings and loan association may participate with any other financial institution doing business in this State in establishing and maintaining an electronic terminal.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>Any applicant aggrieved by any action or nonaction of the Division Director under this section may appeal to the circuit court for the county where the association has its principal business office in this State.</text>
  </level>
</section>
