Connecticut General Statutes 36a-139b – Conversion to an uninsured bank
(a) Any Connecticut bank may, upon the approval of the commissioner, convert to an uninsured bank.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 36a-139b
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Bank: means a Connecticut bank or a federal bank. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- banks: shall include all incorporated banks. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
- Capital stock: when used in conjunction with any bank or out-of-state bank means a bank or out-of-state bank that is authorized to accumulate funds through the issuance of its capital stock. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- Commissioner: means the Banking Commissioner and, with respect to any function of the commissioner, includes any person authorized or designated by the commissioner to carry out that function. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- Connecticut bank: means a bank and trust company, savings bank or savings and loan association chartered or organized under the laws of this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- Control: has the meaning given to that term in 12 USC Section 1841(a), as amended from time to time. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Deposit: means funds deposited with a depository. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- Equity capital: means the excess of a Connecticut bank's total assets over its total liabilities, as defined in the instructions of the federal Financial Institutions Examination Council for consolidated reports of condition and income. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
- Governing board: means the group of persons vested with the management of the affairs of a financial institution irrespective of the name by which such group is designated. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- Insured depository institution: has the meaning given to that term in 12 USC Section 1813, as amended from time to time. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- Merger: means the combination of one or more institutions with another which continues its corporate existence. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- Mutual: when used in conjunction with any institution that is a bank or out-of-state bank means any such institution without capital stock. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Retail deposits: means any deposits made by individuals who are not "accredited investors" as defined in 17 C. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- State: means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, any territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the trust territory of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- Trust bank: means a Connecticut bank organized to function solely in a fiduciary capacity. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- Uninsured bank: means a Connecticut bank that does not accept retail deposits and for which insurance of deposits by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or its successor agency is not required. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
(b) The converting bank shall file with the commissioner a proposed plan of conversion, a copy of the proposed amended certificate of incorporation and a certificate by the secretary of the converting bank that the proposed plan of conversion and proposed certificate of incorporation have been approved in accordance with subsection (c) of this section.
(c) The proposed plan of conversion and proposed amended certificate of incorporation shall require the approval of a majority of the governing board of the converting bank and the favorable vote of not less than two-thirds of the holders of each class of the bank’s capital stock, if any, or, in the case of a mutual bank, the corporators thereof, cast at a meeting called to consider such conversion.
(d) Any shareholder of a converting capital stock Connecticut bank that proposes to convert to an uninsured bank who, on or before the date of the shareholders’ meeting to vote on such conversion, objects to the conversion by filing a written objection with the secretary of such bank may, within ten days after the effective date of such conversion, make written demand upon the converted bank for payment of such shareholder’s stock. Any such shareholder that makes such objection and demand shall have the same rights as those of a shareholder who dissents from the merger of two or more capital stock Connecticut banks.
(e) If applicable, a converting Connecticut bank shall liquidate all of its retail deposits with the approval of the commissioner. The converting bank shall file with the commissioner a written notice of its intent to liquidate all of its retail deposits together with a plan of liquidation and a proposed notice to depositors approved and executed by a majority of its governing board. The commissioner shall approve the plan and the notice to depositors. The commissioner shall not approve a sale of the retail deposits of the converting bank if the purchasing insured depository institution, including all insured depository institutions which are affiliates of such institution, upon consummation of the sale, would control thirty per cent or more of the total amount of deposits of insured depository institutions in this state, unless the commissioner permits a greater percentage of such deposits. The converting and purchasing institutions shall file with the commissioner a written agreement approved and executed by a majority of the governing board of each institution prescribing the terms and conditions of the transaction.
(f) The commissioner shall approve a conversion under this section if the commissioner determines that: (1) The converting bank has complied with all applicable provisions of law; (2) the converting bank has equity capital of at least five million dollars unless the commissioner establishes a different minimum capital requirement based on the proposed activities of the converting bank; (3) the converting bank has liquidated all of its retail deposits, if any, and has no deposits that are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or its successor agency; and (4) the proposed conversion will serve the public necessity and convenience. The commissioner shall not approve such conversion unless the commissioner considers the findings of the most recent state or federal safety and soundness examination of the converting bank, and the effect of the proposed conversion on the financial resources and future prospects of the converting bank.
(g) After receipt of the commissioner’s approval for the conversion, the converting bank shall promptly file such approval and its certificate of incorporation with the Secretary of the State and with the town clerk of the town in which its principal office is located. Upon such filing, the converted Connecticut bank shall not accept retail deposits and shall be an uninsured bank, subject to the limitations in subdivisions (2) and (3) of subsection (t) and subsection (u) of section 36a-70. Upon such conversion, the converted Connecticut bank possesses all of the rights, privileges and powers granted to it by its certificate of incorporation and by the provisions of the general statutes applicable to its type of Connecticut bank, and all of the assets, business and good will of the converting bank shall be transferred to and vested in the converted Connecticut bank without any deed or instrument of conveyance, provided the converting bank may execute any deed or instrument of conveyance as is convenient to confirm such transfer. The converted Connecticut bank shall be subject to all of the duties, relations, obligations, trusts and liabilities of the converting bank, whether as debtor, depository, registrar, transfer agent, executor, administrator or otherwise, and shall be liable to pay and discharge all such debts and liabilities, and to perform all such duties in the same manner and to the same extent as if the converted bank had itself incurred the obligation or liability or assumed the duty or relation. All rights of creditors of the converting bank and all liens upon the property of such bank shall be preserved unimpaired and the uninsured bank shall be entitled to receive, accept, collect, hold and enjoy any and all gifts, bequests, devises, conveyances, trusts and appointments in favor of or in the name of the converting bank and whether made or created to take effect prior to or after the conversion.
(h) The persons named as directors in the certificate of incorporation shall be the directors of the converted Connecticut bank until the first annual election of directors after the conversion or until the expiration of their terms as directors, and shall have the power to take all necessary actions and to adopt bylaws concerning the business and management of such Connecticut bank.
(i) No converted Connecticut bank, other than a Connecticut bank which converted from a trust bank, may exercise any of the fiduciary powers granted to Connecticut banks by law until express authority therefor has been given by the commissioner, unless such authority was previously granted to the converting bank.
(j) The franchise tax required to be paid by capital stock Connecticut banks upon an increase of capital stock shall be paid upon the capital stock of any such converted bank, provided, any franchise tax paid by the converting bank shall be subtracted from any amount owed under this subsection.