2014 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 34 - Banking, Financial Institutions and Money
CHAPTER 30 - A STATE SAVINGS BANK CHARTER IN SOUTH CAROLINA
SECTION 34-30-120. Approval or disapproval of application; order; filing of articles; corporate existence; certificate of authorization, commencement of business; limitation on ownership or control.

(A) After consideration of its findings, and the consideration of other information and evidence, the board shall approve or disapprove the application. The board shall approve the application if it finds that the articles of incorporation are in compliance with Section 34-30-90 and that there is compliance with the criteria in Section 34-30-110, the remainder of this chapter, regulations, and the 1976 Code. The order approving the application may impose reasonable conditions which must be met before a certificate of authorization to transact business is issued.

(B) If the board approves the application, the applicant shall file its articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State.

(C) The corporate existence of a state savings bank begins on the date the approved articles of incorporation are filed with the Secretary of State, unless otherwise provided in the articles of incorporation, but the state savings bank may not commence business before it is in possession of a certificate of authorization to transact business as provided in Section 34-30-150.

(D) A subscriber to the stock of a proposed stock state savings bank, other than its holding company, shall not own or control as principal more than ten percent of a class of voting shares of the state savings bank or its holding company.

HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 90, Section 1, eff June 10, 1997.