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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="9-628" title_number="9" title_name="Savings and Loan Associations" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Conversions; Extraordinary Actions">
  <text>A savings and loan association may effect a statutory merger into any other savings and loan association, any savings bank, or any out-of-state association as defined in § 9-1001(i) of this title if the plan of statutory merger:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>Complies with Title 3 of the Corporations and Associations Article;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>Is approved by:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>The board of directors of both the successor and the transferor;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>The shareholders or members of a transferor association; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iii">
      <text>The Division Director; and</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>The out-of-state association complies with § 9-1004 of this title.</text>
  </level>
</section>
