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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="9-404" title_number="9" title_name="Savings and Loan Associations" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="General Powers and Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to this title and its bylaws, a savings and loan association may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Pay a dividend on savings share accounts or interest on savings deposit accounts;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Agree in advance to pay an additional or different rate of dividend or interest on all savings accounts in the same classification subject to the requirement that each savings account in the same classification receive the same ratable portion of dividends or interest; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Provide for penalties in a savings account contract, subject to approval of the Division Director.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The board of directors of a savings and loan association, by resolution, shall determine as to dividends or interest on savings accounts:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The rate;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The method of calculation; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The payment date.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Dividends or interest on savings accounts may be paid only from current earnings, earned surplus, the expense fund, or as otherwise provided in this title.</text>
  </level>
</section>
