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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="9-425" title_number="9" title_name="Savings and Loan Associations" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="General Powers and Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A savings and loan association may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Act as a depository of funds of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The federal government and its agencies; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>This State and any of its political subdivisions;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Pledge collateral to secure deposits; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Comply with the terms required by the depositor.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Depositors under this section are general creditors under § 9-329 of this title (“Priority of claims”).</text>
  </level>
</section>
