2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 286 - KENTUCKY FINANCIAL SERVICES CODE Subtitle 3 - Banks and Trust Companies 3.3-915 Bank combinations -- Operation of a combined bank as a branch of the surviving bank -- Transfer of combined bank's main office and branches -- Definitions.
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286.3-915 Bank combinations -- Operation of a combined bank as a branch of
the surviving bank -- Transfer of combined bank's main office and
branches -- Definitions.
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Notwithstanding any other provision of Subtitle 1, 2, or 3 of KRS Chapter 286:
(a) An individual or bank holding company that controls two (2) or more
banks having their principal offices in this Commonwealth may, from time
to time, combine any or all of the commonly controlled banks in this
Commonwealth into and with any one (1) of the banks, and thereafter the
surviving bank, which shall have its principal office in this Commonwealth,
shall continue to operate its principal office and may operate the other
authorized offices of the banks so combined as branches of the surviving
bank; and
(b) Any combination authorized by this section shall not require the approval
of the commissioner of financial institutions, but on or before thirty (30)
days prior to consummation of any combination, the proposed surviving
bank shall notify the commissioner of the combination, and on the
effective date of any such combination the charter of any combined bank
organized under the laws of this Commonwealth shall be surrendered.
Following any combination authorized by this section:
(a) The surviving bank may, subject to the approval of the commissioner as
provided in KRS 286.3-180(2), establish and operate additional branches
in any county where any bank involved in the combination had
established a branch or main office;
(b) The surviving bank shall maintain a record of the deposits in each of its
offices resulting from such combination or thereafter established as
provided in paragraph (a) of this subsection; and
(c) With the approval of the commissioner, all of a bank's offices in a county
may be transferred, by a purchase and assumption or other transaction,
by the bank to a newly chartered bank having its principal office in the
same county, or to an existing bank.
For purposes of this section:
(a) The term "combine" or "combination" includes a merger or the acquisition
of all or substantially all of the assets of a bank already controlled by an
individual or bank holding company;
(b) An individual or bank holding company "controls" a bank if that individual
or company, directly or indirectly, owns, controls, or has the power to vote
at least eighty percent (80%) of the issued and outstanding voting
securities of the bank;
(c) "Combined bank" means any bank participating in a combination
authorized by this section other than the surviving bank;
(d) "Surviving bank" means a bank into which a combined bank has been
combined;
(e) "Bank" includes a national bank, savings and loan association, and
federal savings bank; and
(f) "Individual," "bank holding company," and "deposit" shall have the same
meanings attributed to them in KRS 286.3-900(1).
Effective:July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 653, effective July 15, 2010; and
ch 28, sec. 18, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 135,
sec. 4, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 196, sec. 21,
effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 254, sec. 38, effective
July 15, 1996; and ch. 338, sec. 20, effective July 15, 1996. -- Created 1990 Ky.
Acts ch. 181, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1990.
Formerly codified as KRS 287.915.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/2010). This section was amended
by 2010 Ky. Acts chs. 24 and 28, which do not appear to be in conflict and have
been codified together.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2006). In accordance with 2006
Ky. Acts ch. 247, secs. 38 and 39, this statute has been renumbered as a
section of the Kentucky Financial Services Code, KRS Chapter 286, and KRS
references within this statute have been adjusted to conform with the 2006
renumbering of that code.
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