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NY Banking L § 28-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws BNK - Banking Article 2 - Department of Financial Services; Superintendent of Financial Services; Supervisory and Regulatory Powers 28-A - Temporary Change of Location; Approval or Refusal; Certificate.

§   28-a.   Temporary   change   of  location;  approval  or  refusal;   certificate.  Notwithstanding any provisions of law limiting the  number   of  offices which may be maintained thereby, any banking organization or   foreign banking corporation  may  make  a  written  application  to  the   superintendent  for  a  temporary  change  of location of its authorized   place or one of its authorized places of business or a  portion  thereof   to  another place within the state which shall be as near as practicable   to such authorized  place  of  business.  At  the  time  of  making  the   application  an  investigation  fee  as  prescribed  pursuant to section   eighteen-a of this article shall be paid to the superintendent for  each   temporary  location  for which leave to open is sought, except where (1)   the applicant would not be required to pay an investigation fee upon the   filing of an application for a change of location  under  provisions  of   this  chapter  other  than  this  section,  or  (2)  said application is   necessitated by damage or  destruction  caused  by  flood,  tidal  wave,   earthquake,  conflagration,  tornado,  hurricane,  cyclone, windstorm or   other  storm  or  such  other  event  as  shall  have  been  declared  a   catastrophe  by  the superintendent. If there is no reasonable objection   to such change, and if the superintendent  finds  that  such  change  is   necessary   or  desirable  during  a  period  of  construction,  repair,   alteration, improvement, or reconstruction of the previously  authorized   place  of business, he or she shall issue a certificate under his or her   hand and the official seal  of  the  department  authorizing  each  such   change  and  specifying  (a)  the  period  during  which  such temporary   location may be maintained, (b) the date on or after which  such  change   may  be  made,  and  (c)  the powers which may be exercised thereat. The   superintendent shall cause  the  original  of  such  certificate  to  be   transmitted  to  the  applicant, a copy to be filed in the office of the   department and a copy to be filed in the office  of  the  clerk  of  the   county in which the principal office of the applicant is located. If the   superintendent  shall  be  satisfied  in  any  case  that  a  change  is   undesirable or inexpedient, he or she shall refuse such application  and   notify  the  applicant of his or her determination. A temporary place of   business occupied pursuant to the provisions of this  section  shall  be   closed  as  soon  as  practicable,  and  in no event later than the date   specified in its authorization certificate,  unless  the  superintendent   shall  have  extended such time. The banking organization or corporation   shall notify the superintendent in writing prior to such closing  as  to   the date it intends to close the temporary place of business.
NY Banking L § 29 (2021)
2021 New York Laws BNK - Banking Article 2 - Department of Financial Services; Superintendent of Financial Services; Supervisory and Regulatory Powers 29 - Branch Offices; Public Accommodation Offices; Approval or Refusal; Certificate; Investigation Fee.

§  29.  Branch  offices;  public  accommodation  offices;  approval or   refusal; certificate; investigation fee.  When  a  banking  organization   seeks  to  open a branch office or public accommodation office, it shall   submit a written application  to  the  superintendent.  The  application   shall contain such information as the superintendent deems necessary. At   the  time of making such application, an investigation fee as prescribed   pursuant to section eighteen-a of this article  shall  be  paid  to  the   superintendent for each branch office or public accommodation office for   which  leave  to  open  is  sought. If the superintendent finds that the   opening  of  the  branch  office  or  public  accommodation  office   is   consistent  with  the  declaration of policy set forth in section ten of   this article and that  the  applicant  is  in  compliance  with  section   twenty-eight-b  of  this article, he or she shall issue a certificate in   triplicate under his or her hand and the official seal of the department   authorizing the opening and occupation of such branch office  or  public   accommodation  office  and specifying the date on or after which and the   conditions under which it may be opened and the place where it shall  be   located.   The   superintendent  shall  cause  one  of  such  triplicate   certificates to be transmitted to the applicant, another to be filed  in   the  office of the department and the third to be filed in the office of   the clerk of the county in which the principal office of  the  applicant   is located. If the superintendent shall not find that the opening of the   branch or public accommodation office is consistent with the declaration   of policy set forth in section ten of this article or that the applicant   is  in compliance with section twenty-eight-b of this article, he or she   shall notify the applicant that the application has been denied.No investigation fee for branch applications shall be  collected  from   applicants  if  such  branch  applications are filed in conjunction with   proceedings under section one hundred thirty-six, four  hundred  ten  or   subdivision eight of section six hundred five of this chapter.
NY Banking L § 30 (2021)
2021 New York Laws BNK - Banking Article 2 - Department of Financial Services; Superintendent of Financial Services; Supervisory and Regulatory Powers 30 - Unclaimed Amounts; Deposit by Superintendent in Trust; Preference; Release of Debtor.

§ 30.   Unclaimed   amounts;   deposit  by  superintendent  in  trust;   preference; release of debtor. 1. After the completion of the  voluntary   or  involuntary  liquidation of the business and property of any banking   organization or of the business  and  property  in  this  state  of  any   foreign  banking  corporation,  the  superintendent may take and hold as   trustee for the owners thereof any  amounts  which  remain  due  to  and   unclaimed  by  any creditor, depositor, stockholder, shareholder, bailor   or depositor of property for hire or otherwise, or lessee of  any  safe,   vault  or  box. Whenever such amounts are received by the superintendent   and he is not in possession of the business and property of such banking   organization or corporation, he shall give his receipt for such  amounts   and  shall forthwith deposit them in one or more banks, trust companies,   or savings banks, to the  credit  of  the  superintendent  of  financial   services  in trust for the persons entitled thereto. In a liquidation by   the superintendent he shall deposit such amounts in like manner  at  the   times provided in article thirteen of this chapter.2.  All  such  deposits  by  the  superintendent  shall be entitled to   priority  of  payment  in  case  of  the  insolvency  or  voluntary   or   involuntary  liquidation of the depositary on an equality with any other   priority given by this chapter.3. The superintendent shall before the close of each fiscal  year  pay   into  the  state treasury all interest received by him on such unclaimed   amounts since the last such payment.4. Any  banking  organization  or  foreign  banking  corporation  with   respect  to  which  the superintendent has received unclaimed amounts as   trustee for the owners  thereof  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this   section  shall,  from  and  after  the  date  when  such  amounts are so   received, be relieved and held harmless from any and all  liability  for   any  claim  or  claims  which  exist  at  such time with respect to such   unclaimed amounts, or which may thereafter be  made  or  may  come  into   existence on account of or in respect of any such unclaimed amounts, and   no  action  shall  be  maintained  against  such banking organization or   corporation  or  any  officer,  partner,  agent,   employee,   attorney,   shareholder  or  stockholder  thereof  for  the  recovery  of  any  such   unclaimed amounts, or for interest thereon subsequent  to  the  date  of   receipt  by  the  superintendent or for damages alleged to have resulted   from the payment thereof to the superintendent.
NY Banking L § 31 (2021)
2021 New York Laws BNK - Banking Article 2 - Department of Financial Services; Superintendent of Financial Services; Supervisory and Regulatory Powers 31 - Index of Persons Entitled to Unclaimed Amounts; Payment to Persons Entitled; Deduction of Service Charge.

§ 31.  Index  of  persons  entitled  to  unclaimed amounts; payment to   persons entitled; deduction of service charge. An index shall be kept in   the office of the department of the names of all persons  for  whom  the   superintendent  holds in trust any unclaimed amounts. The superintendent   may pay over any such amount which he holds in trust amounting  to  over   three  dollars  to any person who shall show by evidence satisfactory to   the superintendent that he is lawfully entitled to receive it. In  cases   of  doubt or conflicting claims, he may require of the claimant an order   of the supreme court authorizing and directing the payment thereof.  The   superintendent  shall  be  held  harmless and shall not be liable to any   subsequent claimant for any payment made by him  in  good  faith.    The   superintendent  shall  deduct  from  the  amount  of  any claim of fifty   dollars or more allowed by him or ordered by the  court  to  be  paid  a   service  charge  of one percentum of the amount thereof, but in no event   less than one dollar and, in  addition,  any  costs,  disbursements  and   legal  fees  which  the court may allow. The amount so deducted shall be   paid into the state  treasury  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of   section seventeen of this chapter.
NY Banking L § 32 (2021)
2021 New York Laws BNK - Banking Article 2 - Department of Financial Services; Superintendent of Financial Services; Supervisory and Regulatory Powers 32 - Insurance of Deposits and Share Accounts.

§ 32. Insurance of deposits and share accounts.   1.  Within  one year from the date this section shall have become law, every bank, trust company, savings bank, savings  and  loan  association and  credit union shall obtain insurance of deposits and share accounts, as the case may be:  (a) from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, in the case  of  a bank, trust company, savings bank or savings and loan association;  (b)   from   the   Administrator   of   the   National   Credit  Union Administration, in the case of a credit union; or  (c) in the case of any  such  banking  organization,  from  any  other insurer  upon  such  terms  and  conditions  as the superintendent shall approve.   2. No banking organization whose deposit  or  share  accounts  are  so insured shall hereafter voluntarily terminate such insured status.   3.  Notwithstanding  the  foregoing  provisions  of  this section, the superintendent shall have the power to promulgate  such  regulations  as the  superintendent  deems  necessary  and  proper  (a) to implement and define  the  provisions  of  this  section,  (b)  to  exempt  from   the requirements  of  this  section  any banking organization which does not receive deposits or share accounts from the general public, and (c)  for good  cause shown, to extend for up to two years the period within which any  banking  organization  must  comply  with   the   requirements   of subdivision one of this section.
NY Banking L § 33 (2021)
2021 New York Laws BNK - Banking Article 2 - Department of Financial Services; Superintendent of Financial Services; Supervisory and Regulatory Powers 33 - Reserve Depositaries.

§ 33.   Reserve   depositaries.   The  superintendent  shall,  in  his discretion, upon the nomination of any bank, trust  company,  industrial bank,  foreign  banking  corporation  authorized to maintain a branch or branches in this state or private banker, designate as a depositary  for its  reserves  on  deposit  a  bank,  trust  company,  private banker or national bank located in this state, or a  banking  corporation  located elsewhere  in  the  United States if such banking corporation shall make such reports as the superintendent may prescribe  and  shall  submit  to such  examinations  as  he  may  deem  necessary.    No such bank, trust company, private banker, national bank or banking corporation may  be  a depositary  of any such reserves unless it shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least  (1) One million dollars, if located in a borough in this  state  which has a population of one million five hundred thousand or over;  (2)  Seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, if located in a borough in this state which has a population of one million  or  over  and  less than  one  million  five hundred thousand or in a city in this state not divided into boroughs which has a population of four hundred thousand or over;  (3) Five hundred thousand dollars, if located elsewhere in this state;  (4) Two million dollars, if located outside this state.   No bank, trust company, private banker or national bank located  in  a borough having a population of one million five hundred thousand or over which  does  not  have  a  combined  capital and surplus of at least two million dollars, may be a depositary for such reserves unless  it  shall have  a  combined  capital and surplus greater than the combined capital and surplus of the bank, trust company, industrial bank, foreign banking corporation authorized to maintain a branch or branches in this state or private banker depositing such reserves.
NY Banking L § 34 (2021)
2021 New York Laws BNK - Banking Article 2 - Department of Financial Services; Superintendent of Financial Services; Supervisory and Regulatory Powers 34 - Superintendent as Attorney to Accept Service of Process.

§ 34.  Superintendent  as  attorney  to  accept  service  of  process.   Whenever pursuant to any provision of this chapter,  the  superintendent   shall  have  been  duly appointed attorney to receive service of process   for  any  individual,   partnership,   unincorporated   association   or   corporation,  such  service  shall  be  made  by  personally  delivering   duplicate  copies  of  the  process  to  and  leaving  them   with   the   superintendent  or any deputy superintendent. Service of process so made   shall be deemed to have been made within the territorial jurisdiction of   any court in this state. The  superintendent  or  deputy  superintendent   shall  forthwith  forward  by  mail,  postage  prepaid,  a copy of every   process served upon him in accordance with this section, directed to the   person last designated by such individual,  partnership,  unincorporated   association  or  corporation  in  accordance with the provisions of this   chapter to receive such process on his or its behalf. For  each  service   of process upon the superintendent or a deputy, he shall collect the sum   of  two dollars, which shall be paid by the plaintiff or moving party at   the time of such service. The term process when used  in  this  section,   includes  any  writ, summons, petition or order whereby any suit, action   or proceeding shall be commenced.
NY Banking L § 36-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws BNK - Banking Article 2 - Department of Financial Services; Superintendent of Financial Services; Supervisory and Regulatory Powers 36-A - Reports of Lending by Banking Organizations.

§ 36-a.   Reports   of   lending   by   banking   organizations.   The   superintendent may require every banking  organization  to  submit  from   time  to  time  data  on  its mortgage loans, home improvement loans, or   other loans and data on its deposits.
NY Banking L § 36-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws BNK - Banking Article 2 - Department of Financial Services; Superintendent of Financial Services; Supervisory and Regulatory Powers 36-B - Preservation of Books and Records.

§  36-b. Preservation of books and records. When any provision of this   chapter or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto requires that   books and records be preserved, such requirement  may  be  satisfied  by   maintenance   of   original   papers   or  other  records,  photographic   reproductions, or records stored in electronic storage media. As used in   this chapter, "electronic  storage  media"  means  any  digital  storage   medium or system that meets the following conditions:1.  It  must  preserve  the  records  exclusively  in  non-rewritable,   non-erasable format;2. It must verify  automatically  the  quality  and  accuracy  of  the   storage media recording process;3. It must have the capacity to readily download indexes, metadata and   records  preserved  on  the  electronic  storage  media  to  any  medium   acceptable to the superintendent; and4. It must be immediately readable on equipment at all times available   to the superintendent for examination of such records.
NY Banking L § 37 (2021)
2021 New York Laws BNK - Banking Article 2 - Department of Financial Services; Superintendent of Financial Services; Supervisory and Regulatory Powers 37 - Reports to Superintendent.

§ 37.  Reports to superintendent. 1. The superintendent shall at least   two times in each year designate a past day  as  of  which  every  bank,   trust   company,   private   banker   and,  in  the  discretion  of  the   superintendent, a bank holding company and  any  non-banking  subsidiary   thereof  shall  render a periodical report of condition to him. He shall   deliver or mail a notice  designating  such  day  to  such  bank,  trust   company,  private  banker,  bank  holding  company  or  any  non-banking   subsidiary thereof at its principal office.3. In addition to any reports expressly required by this chapter to be   made, the superintendent may require any banking organization,  licensed   lender,  licensed  casher  of  checks, licensed mortgage banker, foreign   banking corporation licensed by the superintendent  to  do  business  in   this state, bank holding company and any non-banking subsidiary thereof,   corporate  affiliate  of  a  corporate  banking  organization within the   meaning of subdivision six of section thirty-six of this article and any   non-banking subsidiary of a corporation  which  is  an  affiliate  of  a   corporate  banking  organization within the meaning of subdivision six-a   of section thirty-six of this article to make special reports to him  at   such times as he may prescribe.4.  The superintendent, except as otherwise expressly provided in this   chapter, may prescribe the form and contents of all periodical  and  all   special reports.5.  The  superintendent  may  extend at his discretion the time within   which a banking organization, foreign banking  corporation  licensed  by   the superintendent to do business in this state, bank holding company or   any  non-banking subsidiary thereof, licensed casher of checks, licensed   mortgage banker, private banker or licensed lender is required  to  make   and file any report to the superintendent.6.  For  purposes of this section thirty-seven the terms "bank holding   company" and "non-banking subsidiary" shall be defined as such terms are   defined in article three-A of this chapter.
NY Banking L § 37-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws BNK - Banking Article 2 - Department of Financial Services; Superintendent of Financial Services; Supervisory and Regulatory Powers 37-A - Submission of Annual Reports by the Holocaust Claims Processing Office.

§   37-a.  Submission  of  annual  reports  by  the  Holocaust  claims   processing office. The  superintendent  shall  report  annually  to  the   governor,  the  temporary  president  of  the senate, the speaker of the   assembly, the chairs of the senate standing committees  on  finance  and   banks,  and  the  chairs of the assembly standing committees on ways and   means and banks on the fifteenth of January of each year, a statement of   condition with respect to the purpose, policies and  activities  of  the   Holocaust  claims  processing  office.  Such  report  shall  include the   following information:1. such offices' operations and accomplishments; and2. a schedule of expenses  including,  but  not  limited  to  personal   service  costs,  nonpersonal  service  costs and expenses related to the   recovery of properties belonging to Holocaust victim survivors.
NY Banking L § 38 (2021)
2021 New York Laws BNK - Banking Article 2 - Department of Financial Services; Superintendent of Financial Services; Supervisory and Regulatory Powers 38 - Power of Subpoena.

§ 38. Power of subpoena. 1. The superintendent shall have power at all   times,  either  personally  or by his deputies, including special deputy   superintendents, or examiners, to subpoena witnesses,  to  compel  their   attendance,  to administer an oath, to examine any person under oath and   to require  the  production  of  any  relevant  books  or  papers.  Such   examination  may  be  conducted  on  any  subject relating to the duties   imposed upon, or the powers vested  in,  the  superintendent  under  the   provisions of this chapter. Any corporation, association, partnership or   individual  which  fails  to  obey  the  command  of  a subpoena without   reasonable excuse or refuses, without reasonable cause, to be  sworn  or   to  be  examined  or  to answer a question or to produce a book or paper   when ordered so to do by the officer duly conducting  such  inquiry,  or   fails  to  perform  any act required hereunder to be performed, shall be   guilty of a misdemeanor and shall also be  subject  to  the  compulsions   provided  by the civil practice law and rules. Any officer participating   in such inquiry and any person examined as a witness upon  such  inquiry   who  shall disclose to any person other than the superintendent the name   of any witness examined or any  other  information  obtained  upon  such   inquiry,  except as directed by the superintendent, shall be guilty of a   misdemeanor.2. In any such investigation before the superintendent or  before  his   deputy  or  any  other  officer  duly  designated by him to conduct such   investigation, the superintendent or such deputy or officer  may  confer   immunity  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of section 50.20 of the   criminal procedure law.