Title 26 — Banks and Other Financial Institutions.

Corporations may be formed within the District of Columbia for the purposes hereinafter mentioned in the following manner: Any number of natural persons, citizens of the United States, not less than 25, may associate themselves together to form a company for the purpose of carryi…

The persons referred to in § 26-1301 shall, under their hands and seals, execute before some officer in said District competent to take the acknowledgment of deeds, an organization certificate, which shall specifically state: (1) The name of the corporation; (2) The purposes for …

This certificate shall be presented to the Council of the District of Columbia, which shall have power and discretion to grant or refuse to said persons a charter of incorporation upon the terms set forth in the said certificate and the provisions of this chapter.

Previous to the presentation of the said certificate to the said Council of the District of Columbia, notice of the intention to apply for such charter shall be inserted in 2 newspapers of general circulation, printed in the District of Columbia, at least 4 times a week for 3 wee…

Commissioner of the Department of Insurance, Securities, and Banking If the charter be granted as aforesaid, it, together with the certificate of the Council of the District of Columbia granting the same indorsed thereon, shall be filed for record in the Office of the Recorder of…

Commissioner of the Department of Insurance, Securities, and Banking All companies organized under this chapter, or which shall, under the provisions of this chapter, become entitled to transact the business of a trust company, shall report to the Superintendent of Banking and Fi…

All companies organized under this chapter are hereby declared to be corporations possessed of the powers and functions of corporations generally, and shall have power: (1) To make contracts; (2) To sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court as fully as natural persons…

In all cases in which application shall be made to any court in the District of Columbia, or wherever it becomes necessary or proper for said court to appoint a trustee, receiver, personal representative, special administrator, guardian of the estate of a minor, or committee of t…

Whenever any corporation operating under this Code shall be appointed such trustee, personal representative, special administrator, receiver, assignee, guardian, or committee, as aforesaid, the president, vice-president, secretary, or treasurer of said company shall take the oath…

(a) For the purpose of this section, the term: (1) “Affiliate” means a company that is affiliated with a bank or bank holding company because the bank or bank holding company has the power to vote 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities of the company. (2) “Bank” means a …

When any court shall appoint the said company a trustee, receiver, personal representative, special administrator, or such guardian or committee, or shall order the deposit of money or other valuable with said company, or where any individual or corporation shall appoint any of s…

Any safe deposit company, trust company, surety or guaranty company, or title insurance company incorporated on or before January 1, 1902, and operating under the laws of the United States in the District of Columbia or of any of the states, and doing business in said District on…

Any company operating under this chapter may lease, purchase, hold, and convey real property in which the offices of the company are located not to exceed in value the capital and surplus of the company, and such in addition as it may acquire in satisfaction of debts due the corp…

The charters for incorporations named in this chapter and granted before April 11, 1986, may be made perpetual, or may be limited in time by their provisions, subject to the approval of Congress.

Commissioner of the Department of Insurance, Securities, and Banking The capital stock of every such company shall be at least $1,000,000, and at least 50 percent thereof must have been paid in, in cash or by the transfer of assets as hereinafter provided in § 26-1323, before any…

It shall be lawful for such company to call for and demand from the stockholders, respectively, all sums of money by them subscribed, at such time and in such proportions as its board of directors shall deem proper, within the time specified in § 26-1316, and it may enforce payme…

Every such company shall annually, within 20 days after the 1st of January of each year, make a report to the Superintendent of Banking and Financial Institutions [Commissioner of the Department of Insurance, Securities, and Banking], which shall be published in a newspaper in th…

If any company fails to comply with the provisions of § 26-1318, all the directors or trustees of such company shall be jointly and severally liable for the debts of the company then existing and for all that shall be contracted before such report shall be made; provided, that in…

Any wilful false swearing in regard to any certificate or report or public notice required by the provisions of this chapter shall be perjury and shall be punished as such according to the laws of the District of Columbia. Any misappropriation of any of the money of any corporati…

The stock of such company shall be deemed personal estate, and shall be transferable only on the books of such company in such manner as shall be prescribed by the bylaws of the company; but no shares shall be transferable until all previous calls thereon shall have been fully pa…

All stockholders of every company incorporated under this chapter, or availing itself of its provisions under § 26-1313 shall be severally and individually liable to the creditors of such company to an amount equal to and in addition to the amount of stock held by them respective…

Nothing but money shall be considered as payment of any part of the capital stock, except that in the case of any company doing business on January 1, 1902, in the District of Columbia in any of the classes herein provided for, or under any act of Congress, or by virtue of the la…

The stock, property, and concerns of such company shall be managed by not less than 9 nor more than 30 directors or trustees, who shall, respectively, be stockholders, and citizens of the United States, and at least two-thirds of whom shall reside in the District of Columbia or w…

There shall be a president of the company, who shall be a director, also a secretary and a treasurer, all of whom shall be chosen by the directors or trustees; provided, that only 1 of the above named offices shall be held by the same person at the same time. Subordinate officers…

The directors or trustees shall have power to make such bylaws as they deem proper for the management or disposal of the stock and business affairs of such company, not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, and prescribing the duties of officers and servants that may …

If the directors or trustees of any company shall declare or pay any dividend the payment of which would render it insolvent, or which would create a debt against such company, they shall be jointly and severally liable as guarantors for all the debts of the company then existing…

If any of the directors or trustees shall object to declaring such dividends or the payment of the same, and shall at any time before the time fixed for the payment thereof file a certificate of their objection in writing with the secretary of the company and with the Recorder of…

If the liabilities of any company shall at any time exceed the amount of the fair cash value of the assets, the directors or trustees of such company assenting thereto shall be personally and individually liable for such excess to the creditors of the company, after the additiona…

No person holding stock in such company as personal representative, guardian, or trustee shall be personally subject to any liability as stockholder of such company, but the estate and funds in the hands of such personal representative, guardian, or trustee shall be liable in lik…

(a) Any corporation which may be formed under this chapter may increase its capital stock by complying with the provisions of this chapter to any amount which may be deemed sufficient and proper for the purposes of the corporation. (b) Any company transacting the business of a tr…

A copy of any certificate of incorporation filed in pursuance of this chapter, certified by the Recorder of Deeds to be a true copy and the whole of such certificate, shall be received in all courts and places as presumptive legal evidence of the facts therein stated.

No bond or other collateral security, except as hereinafter stated, shall be required from any trust company incorporated under this chapter for and in respect to any trust, nor when appointed trustee, guardian, receiver, personal representative, special administrator, committee …

The court having probate jurisdiction, or any judge thereof, shall have power to make orders respecting such company whenever it shall have been appointed trustee, guardian, receiver, personal representative, special administrator, committee of the estate of a person with mental …

No corporation or company organized by virtue of the laws of any of the states of this Union shall carry on in the District of Columbia any of the kinds of business named in this chapter without strict compliance in all particulars with the provisions of this chapter for the gove…

Congress may at any time alter, amend, or repeal this chapter, but any such amendment or repeal shall not, nor shall the dissolution of any company formed under this chapter, take away or impair any remedy given against such corporation, its stockholders, or officers for any liab…

Any company formed prior to January 1, 1902, agreeably to law, for the purpose of insuring titles to real estate may become perpetual by filing, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, a certificate to that effect, in like manner as is provided by law for the filing of the origin…

Any company transacting the business of a trust company and heretofore or hereafter organized or operating under the provisions of this chapter, but before April 11, 1986, shall have perpetual succession from the date of its organization, or until such time as it be dissolved, or…