Montana Code 32-2-825. Surrender of charter by state mutual association
32-2-825. Surrender of charter by state mutual association. (1) Any mutual association that will become a corporation for carrying on the business of a mutual association under the laws of the United States ceases to be a corporation under the laws of this state.
Terms Used In Montana Code 32-2-825
- 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.
- Federal savings association: means a federal savings and loan association or a federal savings bank doing business under authority granted by the office of the comptroller of the currency or the former office of thrift supervision. See Montana Code 32-2-603
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- Mutual association: means any corporation that has been incorporated to conduct the business of receiving money on deposit from its members and making substantially all of its loans on one-to-four family real estate mortgage security. See Montana Code 32-2-603
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
- United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
(2)The members of the board of directors last in office when the corporation became a corporation under the laws of the United States continues to be the board of directors of the corporation, with power to take all necessary measures to carry out and perfect the organization by signing the articles of association and the organization certificate and adopting the regulations as may be just and proper and not inconsistent with the acts of congress.
(3)A change from a state mutual association to a federal savings association may not release the mutual association from its obligations to pay and discharge all of the liabilities created by law or incurred by the mutual association before becoming a federal savings association or any tax imposed by the laws of this state up to the date of the mutual association becoming a federal savings association, in proportion to the time that has elapsed since the next preceding payment.