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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="9-803" title_number="9" title_name="Savings and Loan Associations" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Foreign Associations">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to § 9-309 of this title and the approval of the Division Director, a foreign association or any savings and loan association that maintains its principal office outside this State may relocate an existing office in this State if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The office was open on or before March 1, 1955; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The relocation is within:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The same county; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A one-mile radius of the office to be relocated.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Any aggrieved foreign association or savings and loan association that applies to relocate its office under subsection (a) of this section may appeal a final order of the Division Director to the Circuit Court for Baltimore City.</text>
  </level>
</section>
