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...(A) The board of directors of a mutual holding company may from time to time, by a majority vote of the directors, do both of the following: (1) Divide equitably any surplus that is in excess of the amount required for the operations of the mutual holding company or to maintain the safety and soundness of the mutual holding company; (2) Distribute that surplus to the respective depositors of its subsidiary stock st...

...(A) A mutual holding company may establish a subsidiary holding company as a direct subsidiary to hold one hundred per cent of the stock of its subsidiary stock state bank, provided the subsidiary holding company is not formed and operated as a means of evading or frustrating the purposes of this chapter. Subject to the approval of the superintendent of financial institutions, the subsidiary holding company may be es...

...A mutual holding company organized under this chapter may, with the approval of the superintendent of financial institutions, convert to a stock holding company by submitting an application in accordance with rules adopted by the superintendent under section 1121.03 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Subject to section 1115.05 and Chapter 1119. of the Revised Code, a bank, regardless of the location of its principal place of business, may establish or acquire and maintain a banking office in this state. (B)(1) With the prior written approval of the superintendent of financial institutions obtained in accordance with section 1117.02 of the Revised Code, a state bank may establish or acquire a banking office a...

...(A) A bank with its principal place of business in this state proposing to establish a banking office shall submit an application to the superintendent of financial institutions. The superintendent shall determine whether to accept an application for processing within ten business days after receiving the application. The superintendent shall approve or disapprove the application within sixty days after accepting it ...

...(A) A bank may propose to operate a banking office on a less than full-time basis, whether it be regular, intermittent, or occasional. (B) If a proposed banking office is to be operated by use of a mobile facility, it may do business at more than one identified location. (C) A bank that establishes a banking office shall notify the superintendent of financial institutions prior to doing either of the following: (1...

...A bank proposing to relocate a banking office shall do the following: (A) If the banking office is to be relocated within a one-mile radius of the banking office's current location, the bank shall notify the superintendent of financial institutions and comply with the relocation procedures established by the superintendent. (B) If the banking office is to be relocated outside a one-mile radius of the banking office...

...other banks, savings banks, and savings associations to provide services to the contracting bank's customers at any or all of the offices of the other banks, savings banks, and savings associations as if the offices of the other banks, savings banks, and savings associations were offices of the contracting bank. (B) The superintendent shall determine whether to accept a bank's application for approval of a contract ...

...(A) A bank shall keep a written record of both of the following: (1) Each location at which the bank receives, but does not accept, cash or other items for subsequent deposit, such as by mail or armored car service or at a lock box or night depository; (2) Each location at which the bank is engaged solely in providing administrative support services for its own operations or for other depository institutions. (B) ...

...(A) In the event of a power failure, fire, act of God, riot, strike, robbery or attempted robbery, epidemic, interruption of communication facilities, or any other reason the superintendent of financial institutions approves, or in the event of the declaration of the existence of an emergency by the governor or another person lawfully exercising the power and duties of the office of governor, an officer of a bank, de...

...As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (A) "Foreign bank" means any company, or any subsidiary or affiliate of a company, organized under the laws of a foreign country, a territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, or the Virgin Islands, that engages in the business of banking. "Foreign bank" includes, without limitation, a foreign commercial bank, foreign merchant ba...

...(A) No foreign bank shall conduct any operations in this state connected to its banking business, unless it has a license issued by the superintendent of financial institutions under this chapter or by the office of the comptroller of the currency. Any license issued by the superintendent under this chapter is effective until surrendered by the foreign bank or revoked by the superintendent. (B) Except as provided in...

...(A)(1) For each representative office a foreign bank proposes to operate, the foreign bank shall first submit to the superintendent of financial institutions an application for preliminary approval of the representative office. The superintendent shall approve or disapprove the application within sixty days after accepting the application. (2) In determining whether to approve or disapprove the foreign bank's appli...

...(A) A foreign bank licensed to operate a representative office shall not conduct any banking business through the licensed representative office, including any of the following activities: (1) Soliciting, receiving, or accepting deposits, either directly or as agent for subsequent deposit at another office of the foreign bank; (2) Approving any application for, disbursing any funds from, or otherwise providing cred...

...(A)(1) For each agency or branch a foreign bank proposes to operate, the foreign bank shall first submit to the superintendent of financial institutions an application for preliminary approval of the agency or branch. The superintendent shall determine whether to approve or disapprove the application within sixty days after accepting the application. (2) In determining whether to approve or disapprove the foreign b...

...(A) To be licensed to operate an agency or branch in this state, a foreign bank shall pledge assets to the superintendent of financial institutions, of the kinds, in an amount, and in the manner prescribed by the superintendent, by placing the assets with a qualified custodian for safekeeping. The assets pledged are for the benefit of the agency's or branch's unaffiliated creditors. (B)(1) The value of the assets pl...

...(A) Subject to conditions and requirements the superintendent of financial institutions may prescribe, to be licensed to operate an agency or branch in this state, a foreign bank shall maintain assets in this state of the kinds and in the amount prescribed by the superintendent as necessary or desirable for the maintenance of a sound financial condition and for the protection of depositors, creditors, and the public ...

...(A) When a foreign bank engages in an activity or undertakes an action through an agency or branch licensed under this chapter, the foreign bank is subject to the same limitations on and requirements of engaging in the activity or taking the action that apply to a state bank. (B)(1) A foreign bank licensed to operate an agency shall not accept deposits from citizens or residents of the United States or exercise fidu...

...No foreign bank licensed under this chapter to operate a representative office or an agency shall use the term "branch" to identify that representative office or agency. A foreign bank may use the term "branch" in a description of a representative office or agency that the foreign bank has clearly identified as licensed as a representative office or agency, as the case may be, under this chapter.

...(A) No license issued to a foreign bank under this chapter is transferable or assignable. (B) When a foreign bank licensed under this chapter is to be a constituent in a reorganization in which the foreign bank will not be the resulting corporation, or is to sell a representative office, agency, or branch the foreign bank is licensed to operate in this state, prior to the reorganization or sale, both of the followin...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, each foreign bank licensed to operate a representative office, agency, or branch in this state shall do all of the following: (a) Maintain in this state all of each licensed representative office's, agency's, or branch's records. (b) Segregate each licensed representative office's, agency's, or branch's records from all of the foreign bank's and its affi...

...(A) Each foreign bank licensed under this chapter shall file with the superintendent of financial institutions any reports the superintendent may prescribe in the form and manner and containing the information the superintendent prescribes. (B) When the superintendent requires banks and trust companies to report their income and condition in accordance with section 1121.21 of the Revised Code, the superintendent sha...

...When the laws of this state require an action by or regarding a foreign bank or a representative office, agency, or branch of a foreign bank licensed under this chapter to be approved or taken by the board of directors, the action may be approved or taken by either of the following: (A) The governing body of the foreign bank having authority, under the laws of the country where the foreign bank is chartered, that is...

...(A) In addition to the specific powers, remedies, and sanctions provided in this chapter, any foreign bank licensed to operate a representative office, agency, or branch in this state and any foreign bank conducting operations in this state connected to its banking business without being licensed under this chapter or by the office of the comptroller of the currency is subject to all powers, remedies, and sanctions p...

...(A)(1) If the superintendent of financial institutions determines, after notice and an opportunity for hearing in accordance with sections 1121.37 and 1121.38 of the Revised Code, any of the following conditions exists, the superintendent may revoke any license the foreign bank has to operate a representative office, agency, or branch in this state: (a) The existence of the foreign bank or its authority to transact ...