Title 06, Banks and Financial Institutions

A mutual bank may not deposit any of its funds except with a depositary approved by vote of a majority of all the trustees, exclusive of any trustee who is an officer, partner, director or trustee of the depositary.

(a) A mutual bank may not begin operation until the department has given its approval to do so. The department may not grant approval to begin operation until the mutual bank has qualified as an insured bank under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and complied with the provisions…

The aggregate amount of outstanding liabilities of a mutual bank for money borrowed may not at any time exceed 15 percent of the total assets of the mutual bank unless the department approves a larger percentage of the total assets of the mutual bank.

A mutual bank may accept deposits to be held solely and absolutely in its own right by or in trust or other fiduciary capacity for any person, including an adult or minor individual, male or female, single or married, a partnership, nonprofit organization, association, fiduciary,…

A mutual bank may (1) reject any sums offered for deposit; (2) repay any deposit at any time; and (3) classify and differentiate among deposits on any bases that it may determine.

A mutual bank may pay interest on deposits from net earnings and undivided profits at the rates and intervals that its trustees or the persons to whom the trustees have delegated the trustees' authority approve.

(a) In addition to loans and acquisitions expressly authorized by this chapter, a mutual bank may deal in, underwrite, and invest in for its own account the obligations that the department by regulation authorizes the bank to deal in, underwrite, or invest in for its own account.…

Subject to the provisions of this chapter and the regulations adopted under this chapter, a mutual bank may invest in first mortgages in the same manner and with the same limitations as a bank organized under AS 06.05.

Subject to the provisions of this chapter and regulations under this chapter a mutual bank may invest in bankers' acceptances that have been accepted by a bank, trust company, national bank, investment company, or banking corporation organized under the laws of the United States …

(a) Subject to the provisions of this chapter and regulations under this chapter a mutual bank may invest in corporate securities, subject to the exercise of the same degree of care and prudence that persons prompted by self-interest generally exercise in their own affairs, and s…

Subject to the provisions of this chapter and regulations under this chapter, a mutual bank may invest in a promissory note, subject to the following limitations: (1) a promissory note payable to the order of the mutual bank that is (A) secured by the assignment of one or more mo…

A mutual bank may apply for and establish a branch bank, request a change of the location of the bank's principal office, or request a change of the location of a branch bank as allowed under regulations adopted by the department under this chapter.

Any thrift institution other than a mutual bank may, with the approval of the department, convert itself into a mutual bank upon the affirmative vote of not less than a majority of the votes cast by those entitled to vote upon its affairs at a duly called and held meeting and sha…

A mutual bank may, with the approval of the regulatory authority having jurisdiction over the creation of the thrift institution and upon the affirmative vote of a majority of its corporators, convert itself into a thrift institution organized under federal law or the laws of thi…

Two or more mutual banks may, with the approval of the department, and upon the affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the corporators of each such mutual bank, enter into an agreement of merger or consolidation. Thereafter the merger or consolidation shall be effective …

Before approving a merger or consolidation the department shall give consideration to the purposes of this chapter and the prospects of the surviving or consolidated mutual bank for financial success and its ability to discharge the duties and conform to the restrictions imposed …

All rights, franchises, and property interests of the merged or consolidating mutual banks are transferred to and vested in the surviving or consolidated mutual bank by virtue of the merger or consolidation without the requirement under this chapter of a deed or other instrument …

A mutual bank (1) shall have indefinite succession; (2) may adopt and use a seal; (3) may sue and be sued; (4) may adopt, amend, and repeal rules and regulations governing the manner in which its business may be conducted and the manner in which the powers vested in it may be exe…

The enumeration of powers in AS 06.15.350 does not exclude other powers appropriate for the achievement of the objects and purposes of a mutual bank under this chapter. With the approval of the department, a mutual bank may provide for the exercise of other powers in its bylaws, …

In this chapter, (1) “conventional loan” means a loan secured by a first mortgage on unencumbered real property or leasehold estate other than a loan guaranteed or insured by a federal agency; (2) “department” means the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development;…

This chapter may be cited as the Mutual Savings Bank Act.

(a) A person may not engage in the business of making loans of money, credit, goods, or things in action in the amount or of the value of $25,000 or less and charge, contract for, or receive on the loan a greater rate of interest, discount, or consideration than the lender would …

(a) Application for a license shall be in writing under oath, and in the form prescribed by the department, and must contain the name and the residence and business address of the applicant, the district and municipality with street and number, if any, where the business is to be…

(a) Investigation expenses incurred by the department in processing an application for licensure shall be charged to and paid by the applicant under AS 06.01.010. At the time of submitting the application to the commissioner, the applicant shall pay to the department $1,000 in pa…

An applicant shall prove, in form satisfactory to the department, that the applicant has available for the operation of the business at the location specified in the application, liquid assets of at least $25,000, or, in the case of a multiple office license, that the equivalent …

The applicant shall file with the application a bond to be approved by the department in which the applicant shall be the obligor, in the sum of $25,000 with one or more sureties. Only one bond is required for an application for a multiple office license. The bond shall be for th…

Upon the filing of the application, the payment of the fees and the approval of the bond, the department shall issue a license to the applicant if it finds upon investigation that (1) the financial responsibility, experience, character, and general fitness of the applicant and of…

The license must state the address at which the business is to be conducted and the full name of the licensee. If the licensee is a copartnership or association, the license must state the names of its members, and if a corporation, the date and place of its incorporation. The li…

If at any time the department finds that the bond is unsatisfactory for any reason, it may require the licensee to file, within 10 days after the receipt of a written demand therefor, an additional bond complying with the provisions of AS 06.20.050.

(a) A licensee may maintain only one place of business under a single office license, or up to 10 places of business under each multiple office license. The department may issue more than one license to the same licensee upon compliance with the provisions of this chapter governi…

On or before December 20 of each year, each licensee shall file a new bond that complies with AS 06.20.050.

The department shall, under the Administrative Procedure Act (AS 44.62), revoke any license issued under this chapter if it finds that (1) the licensee has failed to pay the annual license fee or to maintain the required bond in effect or has failed to comply with any lawful dema…

Where a licensee holds more than one license, the department may revoke or suspend any license for which grounds for the action exist.

A licensee may surrender a license by delivering written notice of the surrender to the department. The surrender does not affect the licensee's civil or criminal liability for acts committed before the surrender.

A revocation, suspension, or surrender of a license does not impair or affect the legally enforceable obligation of any pre-existing contract between the licensee and any borrower.

Every license remains in force and effect until it is surrendered, revoked, or suspended as provided in this chapter. The department may reinstate, suspend licenses, or issue new licenses to a licensee whose license has been revoked if no fact or condition exists that clearly wou…

For the purpose of discovering violations of this chapter or securing information required by it under this chapter, the department or its duly designated representative may investigate at any time the loans and business and examine the books, accounts, records, and files used in…

The department shall examine the affairs, business, office, and records of each licensee at least once every 18 months. Examination fees are to be charged to and paid by the licensee in accordance with AS 06.01.010. The department may maintain an action for the recovery of the co…

Each licensee shall keep and use in the licensed premises those books, accounts, and records that will enable the department to determine whether the licensee is complying with this chapter and with the regulations lawfully adopted by the department under this chapter. The mainte…

Each licensee shall, on or before March 15 of each year, file a report with the department containing information as the department may reasonably require concerning the business and operations during the preceding calendar year of each licensed place of business conducted by the…

(a) A person may not advertise, print, display, publish, distribute, or broadcast or cause or permit to be advertised, printed, displayed, published, distributed, or broadcast, in any manner any statement or representation with regard to the rates, terms, or conditions for the le…

A licensee may not conduct the business of making loans under this chapter within an office, room, or place of business in which another business is solicited or engaged in, or in association or conjunction therewith, except as may be authorized in writing by the department upon …

A licensee may not transact business or make any loan under this chapter under any name or at any place of business other than that named in the license.