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CA Fin Code § 1716 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 19 - Foreign (Other State) Banks|ARTICLE 4 - Facilities of Uninsured Foreign (Other State) Banks|Section 1716.

1716.  (a) (1) No uninsured foreign (other state) bank that is licensed to maintain a facility may close the office unless the commissioner has first approved the closing.(2) Paragraph (1) does not prohibit an uninsured foreign (other state) bank that is licensed to maintain a facility from closing the office in accordance with Section 1717.(b) If the commissioner finds, with respect to an application by an uninsured foreign (other state) bank for approval to close a facility, that the closing of the office will not be substantially detrimental to the public convenience and advantage, the commissioner shall approve the application. If the commissioner finds otherwise, the commissioner shall deny the application.(c) Whenever an application by an uninsured foreign (other state) bank for approval to close a facility has been approved and all conditions precedent to the closing have been fulfilled, the bank may close the office and shall promptly thereafter surrender to the commissioner the license that authorized it to maintain the office.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1717 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 19 - Foreign (Other State) Banks|ARTICLE 4 - Facilities of Uninsured Foreign (Other State) Banks|Section 1717.

1717.  (a) Any uninsured foreign (other state) bank that holds a license to maintain a facility may voluntarily surrender the license by filing the license and a report with the commissioner. However, any uninsured foreign (other state) bank that holds licenses to maintain two or more facilities may not voluntarily surrender fewer than all of the licenses.(b) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), a voluntary surrender of a license is effective on the 30th day after the license and the report called for in subdivision (a) are filed with the commissioner, or on any earlier date that the commissioner may by order specify.(2) If a proceeding to revoke or suspend a license is pending when the license and the report called for in subdivision (a) are filed with the commissioner, or if a proceeding to revoke or suspend a license or to impose conditions upon the surrender of a license is instituted before the 30th day after the license and the report called for in subdivision (a) are filed with the commissioner, the voluntary surrender of the license is effective at the time and upon the conditions that the commissioner may by order specify.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1718 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 19 - Foreign (Other State) Banks|ARTICLE 4 - Facilities of Uninsured Foreign (Other State) Banks|Section 1718.

1718.  (a) (1) No uninsured foreign (other state) bank may be issued a license to maintain a facility unless it has first filed with the commissioner, in the form that the commissioner may by regulation or order require, an appointment irrevocably appointing the commissioner and the commissioner’s successor from time to time in office as the bank’s attorney to receive service of process in any noncriminal judicial or administrative proceeding against the bank or any of its successors that arises out of the activities in this state of the facility after the appointment has been filed, with the same force and validity as if served personally on the bank or its successors, as the case may be.(2) Any uninsured foreign (other state) bank that maintains a facility and that has not filed with the commissioner an appointment pursuant to paragraph (1) is deemed by the maintenance of the facility to have appointed the commissioner and the commissioner’s successor from time to time in office as its attorney to receive service of any lawful process in a noncriminal judicial or administrative proceeding against the bank or any of its successors that arises out of the activities in this state of the facility with the same force and validity as if served personally on the bank or its successors, as the case may be.(b) Service may be made on an uninsured foreign (other state) bank that has appointed or is deemed to have appointed the commissioner as its attorney for service of process by leaving a copy of the process at an office of the commissioner. However, the service is not effective unless (1) the party making the service, who may be the commissioner, forthwith sends notice of the service and a copy of the process by registered or certified mail to the bank served at the last address on file with the commissioner for any of its offices in this state or at its head office, and (2) an affidavit of compliance with this subdivision by the party making the service is filed in the case on or before the return date, if any, or within any further time that the court, in the case of a judicial proceeding, or the administrative agency, in the case of an administrative proceeding, allows.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1719 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 19 - Foreign (Other State) Banks|ARTICLE 4 - Facilities of Uninsured Foreign (Other State) Banks|Section 1719.

1719.  Each uninsured foreign (other state) bank that is licensed to maintain a facility shall assign to the office a popular name that includes the term “facility” and that consists of a specific designation by name or number. The bank shall post the popular name and the name of the bank in a conspicuous place at the office.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1720 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 19 - Foreign (Other State) Banks|ARTICLE 4 - Facilities of Uninsured Foreign (Other State) Banks|Section 1720.

1720.  Each uninsured foreign (other state) bank that is licensed to maintain a facility shall post its license in a conspicuous place at the office.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1721 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 19 - Foreign (Other State) Banks|ARTICLE 4 - Facilities of Uninsured Foreign (Other State) Banks|Section 1721.

1721.  No license is transferable or assignable.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1751 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 20 - Foreign (Other Nation) Banks|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 1751.

1751.  Nothing in this chapter, except Section 1760, applies to a federal agency or branch in this state.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1752 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 20 - Foreign (Other Nation) Banks|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 1752.

1752.  (a) In this section, “subject bank” means a bank organized under the laws of any territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands, or the Northern Mariana Islands.(b) Nothing in this chapter, except subdivision (c), shall apply to a subject bank that maintains a branch office in this state as a foreign (other state) state bank pursuant to Chapter 19 (commencing with Section 1670), Section 13(f), 13(k), 18(d), or 44 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. Sec. 1823(f), 1823(k), 1828(d), or 1831u), or Section 9 of the Federal Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. Sec. 321).(c) No subject bank shall at the same time maintain (1) as a foreign (other nation) bank, an office in this state licensed under this chapter and (2) as a foreign (other state) state bank, a branch office in this state pursuant to Chapter 19 (commencing with Section 1670), Section 13(f), 13(k), 18(d), or 44 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. Sec. 1823(f), 1823(k), 1828(d), or 1831u), or Section 9 of the Federal Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. Sec. 321).(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1753 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 20 - Foreign (Other Nation) Banks|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 1753.

1753.  For purposes of this chapter, offices of foreign (other nation) banks are divided into classes and ranked in ascending order, as follows:(a) Representative office.(b) Nondepositary agency.(c) Depositary agency.(d) Limited branch office.(e) Wholesale branch office.(f) Retail branch office.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1754 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 20 - Foreign (Other Nation) Banks|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 1754.

1754.  (a) For purposes of this chapter:(1) Changing a lower class office into a higher class office shall be treated as establishing the higher class office, but not as closing the lower class office.(2) Changing a higher class office into a lower class office shall be treated as closing the higher class office, but not as establishing the lower class office.(b) In the case of changing a higher class office into a lower class office, when the application for approval to close the higher class office has been approved and all conditions precedent to the closing have been fulfilled, the foreign (other nation) bank may change the higher class office into the lower class office, and the commissioner shall issue a license authorizing the bank to maintain the lower class office.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1755 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 20 - Foreign (Other Nation) Banks|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 1755.

1755.  Fees shall be paid to, and collected by, the commissioner, as follows:(a) The fee for filing with the commissioner an application by a foreign (other nation) bank that is not licensed to transact business in this state for approval to establish a branch office shall be two thousand dollars ($2,000).(b) The fee for filing with the commissioner an application by a foreign (other nation) bank that is not licensed to transact business in this state for approval to establish an agency shall be one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500).(c) The fee for filing with the commissioner an application by a foreign (other nation) bank that is licensed to transact business in this state for approval to establish a branch office shall be one thousand dollars ($1,000).(d) The fee for filing with the commissioner an application by a foreign (other nation) bank that is licensed to transact business in this state for approval to establish an agency shall be seven hundred fifty dollars ($750).(e) The fee for filing with the commissioner an application by a foreign (other nation) bank for approval to establish a representative office shall be two hundred fifty dollars ($250).(f) The fee for filing with the commissioner an application by a foreign (other nation) bank that is licensed to maintain an agency or branch office for approval to relocate or to close the office shall be two hundred fifty dollars ($250).(g) The fee for filing with the commissioner an application by a foreign (other nation) bank that is licensed to maintain a representative office for approval to relocate or to close the representative office shall be one hundred dollars ($100).(h) The fee for issuing a license shall be twenty-five dollars ($25).(i) Each foreign (other nation) bank that on June 1st of any year is licensed to maintain a representative office but is not licensed to transact business in this state shall pay, on or before the following July 1st, a fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for each such representative office.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1756 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 20 - Foreign (Other Nation) Banks|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 1756.

1756.  Each application filed with the commissioner under this chapter or under any regulation or order issued under this chapter shall be in such form, shall contain such information, shall be signed in such manner, and shall (if the commissioner so requires by regulation or order) be verified in such manner, as the commissioner may by regulation or order require.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1757 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 20 - Foreign (Other Nation) Banks|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 1757.

1757.  (a) In this section, “act” includes (without limitation) omission.(b) For purposes of making findings on an application by a foreign (other nation) bank for approval to establish an office:(1) The commissioner may, in the absence of credible evidence to the contrary, presume that the directors, executive officers, and any controlling person of the bank and the directors and executive officers of any controlling person of the bank are each of good character and sound financial standing.(2) The commissioner may find that the bank, a director, executive officer, or a controlling person of the bank, or a director or executive officer of a controlling person of the bank is not of good character if that person has done any of the following:(A) Has been convicted of, or has pleaded nolo contendere to, any crime involving an act of fraud or dishonesty.(B) Has consented to or suffered a judgment in any civil action based upon conduct involving an act of fraud or dishonesty.(C) Has consented to or suffered the suspension or revocation of any professional, occupational, or vocational license based upon conduct involving an act of fraud or dishonesty.(D) Has willfully made or caused to be made in any application or report filed with the commissioner or in any proceeding before the commissioner, any statement that was at the time and in the light of the circumstances under which it was made false or misleading with respect to any material fact, or has willfully omitted to state in any application or report filed with the commissioner or in any proceeding before the commissioner, any material fact that was required to be stated therein.(E) Has willfully committed any violation of, or has willfully aided, abetted, counseled, commanded, induced, or procured the violation by any other person of, any provision of this division or of any regulation or order issued under this division.(c) Paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) shall not be deemed to be an exclusive list of the grounds upon which the commissioner may find, for purposes of making findings on an application by a foreign (other nation) bank for approval to establish an office, that the bank, a director, executive officer, or controlling person of the bank, or a director or executive officer of a controlling person of the bank is not of good character.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1758 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 20 - Foreign (Other Nation) Banks|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 1758.

1758.  (a) Each foreign (other nation) bank that is licensed to maintain an office shall file with the commissioner reports as and when the commissioner may, by regulation or order, require.(b) Each report filed with the commissioner under this chapter or under any regulation or order issued under this chapter shall be in the form, shall contain the information, shall be signed in the manner, and shall (if the commissioner so requires by regulation or order) be verified in the manner, that the commissioner may, by regulation or order, require.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1759 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 20 - Foreign (Other Nation) Banks|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 1759.

1759.  Each foreign (other nation) bank that is licensed to maintain an office shall make, keep, and preserve at the office or at another place that the commissioner may, by regulation or order, approve, the books, accounts, and other records relating to the business of the office, in the form, in the manner, and for the time that the commissioner may, by regulation or order, provide.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1760 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 20 - Foreign (Other Nation) Banks|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 1760.

1760.  (a) No foreign (other nation) bank which is licensed to maintain an agency or branch office shall concurrently maintain a federal agency or federal branch in this state.(b) No foreign (other nation) bank which maintains a federal agency or federal branch in this state shall concurrently be licensed to maintain an agency or branch office in this state.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1761 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 20 - Foreign (Other Nation) Banks|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 1761.

1761.  (a) No foreign (other nation) bank shall concurrently be licensed to maintain offices of different classes.(b) Subdivision (a) does not prohibit a foreign (other nation) bank that is licensed to maintain a representative office from being concurrently licensed to maintain an office of a different class or to prohibit a foreign (other nation) bank that is licensed to maintain an office other than a representative office from being concurrently licensed to maintain a representative office.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1763 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 20 - Foreign (Other Nation) Banks|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 1763.

1763.  No license shall be transferable or assignable.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1764 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 20 - Foreign (Other Nation) Banks|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 1764.

1764.  Each foreign (other nation) bank that is licensed to maintain an office shall post its license in a conspicuous place at the office.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1765 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 20 - Foreign (Other Nation) Banks|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 1765.

1765.  (a) Each foreign (other nation) bank that is licensed to maintain an office shall assign to the office a popular name that consists of a specific designation by name or number and shall post the popular name and the name of the bank in a conspicuous place at the office.(b) The popular name that a foreign (other nation) bank assigns to a representative office that it is licensed to maintain shall include the term “representative office.”(c) The popular name that a foreign (other nation) bank assigns to an agency that it is licensed to maintain shall not include the term “branch” unless the term is modified by the word “foreign” or “overseas” or by a similar word.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1766 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 20 - Foreign (Other Nation) Banks|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 1766.

1766.  Whenever a foreign (other nation) bank is licensed to maintain two or more agencies or branch offices, it shall designate one of such offices as its primary office.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1767 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 20 - Foreign (Other Nation) Banks|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 1767.

1767.  Each foreign (other nation) bank that is licensed to maintain an office shall conduct all of the business of the office in a single building or in adjoining buildings. However, for good cause and with the approval of the commissioner, the bank may conduct part of the business of the office elsewhere in the same vicinity.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1768 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 20 - Foreign (Other Nation) Banks|ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions|Section 1768.

1768.  Any foreign (other nation) bank that, at the time it makes a loan or forbearance or executes a contract therefor, has assets equal to at least one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000), is licensed to maintain an office in California, is licensed or otherwise authorized by another state of the United States to maintain an agency or branch office in that state, or maintains a federal agency or federal branch in any state of the United States is exempted from the restrictions of Section 1 of Article XV of the Constitution relating to rates of interest upon the loan or forbearance of any money, goods, or things in action or on accounts after demand.This section does not exempt a foreign (other nation) bank or a subsidiary thereof from complying with all other laws and regulations governing the business in which such a bank or subsidiary is engaged.This section creates and authorizes an exempt class of persons pursuant to Section 1 of Article XV of the Constitution.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Fin Code § 1780 (2021)
2021 California Code|Financial Code - FIN|DIVISION 1.1 - BANKING|CHAPTER 20 - Foreign (Other Nation) Banks|ARTICLE 2 - Representative Offices|Section 1780.

1780.  (a) No foreign (other nation) bank shall establish or maintain an office in this state at which it engages in representational functions unless it is licensed to maintain a representative office, agency, or branch office at that place.(b) (1) No person shall establish or maintain an office in this state as representative of a foreign (other nation) bank unless the bank is licensed to maintain the office as a representative office.(2) For purposes of this chapter, if any person establishes or maintains an office in this state as representative of a foreign (other nation) bank, the bank shall be deemed to establish and maintain the office as a representative office.(c) Neither subdivision (a) nor subdivision (b) shall be deemed to prohibit a foreign (other nation) bank that maintains a federal agency or federal branch in this state from establishing or maintaining one or more representative offices in this state.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)