Arkansas Code of 1987 (2023) › Title 23 - PUBLIC UTILITIES AND REGULATED INDUSTRIES (§§ 23-1-101 — 23-119-105) › Subtitle 2 - FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND SECURITIES (§§ 23-30-101 — 23-55-1007) › Chapter 37 - SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS (§§ 23-37-101 — 23-37-812) › Subchapter 7 - CONVERSION, MERGER, ETC (§§ 23-37-701 — 23-37-706) › Section 23-37-701 - Conversion of state association into federal association

(a)
Any association subject to this chapter may convert itself into a federal savings and loan association in accordance with the provisions of Section 5 of the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933, upon a majority vote of the members or stockholders at an annual meeting or any special meeting called to consider that action.
(b)
A copy of the minutes of the proceedings of the meeting of the members or stockholders,verified by the affidavit of the secretary, shall be filed in the office of the Supervisor of Savings and Loan Associations within ten (10) days after the date of the meeting. A sworn copy of the proceedings of the meeting, when so filed, shall be presumptive evidence of the holding and action of the meeting.
(c)
Within three (3) months after the date of the meeting, the association shall take such action, in the manner prescribed and authorized by the laws of the United States, as shall make it a federal savings and loan association.
(d)
(1)
There shall be filed with the supervisor a copy of the charter issued to the federal savings and loan association by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board [abolished] or a certificate showing the organization of the association as a federal savings and loan association, certified by the secretary or assistant secretary of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board [abolished].
(2)
A copy of the charter, or of the certificate, shall be filed by the association with the Secretary of State and with the county clerk of the county in which the home office of the association is located.
(e)
Upon the grant to any association of a charter by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board [abolished], the association receiving the charter shall cease to be an association incorporated under this chapter and shall no longer be subject to the supervision and control of the supervisor and the Savings and Loan Association Board [abolished].
(f)
Upon the conversion of any association into a federal savings and loan association, the corporate existence of the association shall not terminate, but the federal association shall be deemed to be a continuation of the entity of the association so converted, and all property of the converted association, including its rights, titles, and interests in and to all property of whatever kind, whether real, personal, or mixed, and things in action, and every right, privilege, interest, and asset of any conceivable value or benefit then existing, or pertaining to it, or which would inure to it, shall immediately by operation of law, and without any conveyance or transfer, and without any further act or deed, remain and be vested in and continue and be the property of the federal association into which the state association has converted itself. The federal association shall have, hold, and enjoy the same, in its own right, as fully and to the same extent as the same was possessed, held, and enjoyed by the converting association. The federal association, as of the time of the taking effect of the conversion, shall continue to have and succeed to all the rights, obligations, and relations of the converting association.
(g)
All pending actions and other judicial proceedings to which the converting state association is a party shall not be deemed to have abated or to have been discontinued by reason of the conversion, but may be prosecuted to final judgment, order, or decree in the same manner as if the conversion into the federal association had not been made. The federal association resulting from the conversion may continue the action in its corporate name as a federal association, and any judgment, order, or decree may be rendered for or against it which might have been rendered for or against the converting state association theretofore involved in the judicial proceedings.
Acts 1963, No. 227, § 50; A.S.A. 1947, § 67-1850.