Public Act 097-0492
 
HB1651 EnrolledLRB097 10192 CEL 50385 b

    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Division of Banking Act is amended by
changing Sections 2.5, 5, and 6 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 3205/2.5)
    Sec. 2.5. Prohibited activities.
    (a) For the purposes of this Section, "regulated entity"
means any person, business, company, corporation, institution,
or other entity who is subject to regulation by the Office of
Banks and Real Estate under Sections 3 and 46 of the Illinois
Banking Act, Section 1-5 of the Illinois Savings and Loan Act
of 1985, Section 1004 of the Savings Bank Act, Section 1-3 of
the Residential Mortgage License Act of 1987, Section 2-4 of
the Corporate Fiduciary Act, Section 3.02 of the Illinois Bank
Holding Company Act of 1957, the Savings and Loan Share and
Account Act, Section 1.5 of the Pawnbroker Regulation Act,
Section 3 of the Foreign Banking Office Act, or Section 30 of
the Electronic Fund Transfer Act.
    (b) The Commissioner and the deputy commissioners shall not
be an officer, director, employee, or agent of a regulated
entity or of a corporation or company that owns or controls a
regulated entity.
    The Commissioner and the deputy commissioners shall not own
shares of stock or hold any other equity interest in a
regulated entity or in a corporation or company that owns or
controls a regulated entity. If the Commissioner or a deputy
commissioner owns shares of stock or holds an equity interest
in a regulated entity at the time of appointment, he or she
shall dispose of such shares or other equity interest within
120 days from the date of appointment.
    The Commissioner and the deputy commissioners shall not
directly or indirectly obtain a loan from a regulated entity or
accept a gratuity from a regulated entity that is intended to
influence the performance of official duties.
    (c) Employees of the Office of Banks and Real Estate shall
not be officers, directors, employees, or agents of a regulated
entity or of a corporation or company that owns or controls a
regulated entity.
    Except as provided by standards which the Office of Banks
and Real Estate may establish, employees of the Office of Banks
and Real Estate shall not own shares of stock or hold any other
equity interest in a regulated entity or in a corporation or
company that owns or controls a regulated entity, or directly
or indirectly obtain a loan from a regulated entity, or accept
a gratuity from a regulated entity that is intended to
influence the performance of official duties. However, in no
case shall an employee of the Office of Banks and Real Estate
participate in any manner in the examination or direct
regulation of a regulated entity in which the employee owns
shares of stock or holds any other equity interest, or which is
servicing a loan to which the employee is an obligor.
    (d) If the Commissioner, a deputy commissioner, or any
employee of the Office of Banks and Real Estate properly
obtains a loan or extension of credit from an entity that is
not a regulated entity, and the loan or extension of credit is
subsequently acquired by a regulated entity or the entity
converts to become a regulated entity after the loan is made,
such purchase by or conversion to a regulated entity shall not
cause the loan or extension of credit to be deemed a violation
of this Section.
    Nothing in this Section shall be deemed to prevent the
ownership of a checking account, a savings deposit account, a
money market account, a certificate of deposit, a credit or
debit card account, or shares in open-end investment companies
registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission
pursuant to the federal Investment Company Act of 1940 and the
Securities Act of 1933 (commonly referred to as mutual or money
market funds).
    (e) No Commissioner, deputy commissioner, employee, or
agent of the Office of Banks and Real Estate shall, either
during or after the holding of his or her term of office or
employment, disclose confidential information concerning any
regulated entity or person except as authorized by law or
prescribed by rule. "Confidential information", as used in this
Section, means any information that the person or officer
obtained during his or her term of office or employment that is
not available from the Office of Banks and Real Estate pursuant
to a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
(Source: P.A. 89-508, eff. 7-3-96.)
 
    (20 ILCS 3205/5)  (from Ch. 17, par. 455)
    Sec. 5. Powers. In addition to all the other powers and
duties provided by law, the Commissioner shall have the
following powers:
    (a) To exercise the rights, powers and duties formerly
vested by law in the Director of Financial Institutions under
the Illinois Banking Act.
    (b) To exercise the rights, powers and duties formerly
vested by law in the Department of Financial Institutions under
"An act to provide for and regulate the administration of
trusts by trust companies", approved June 15, 1887, as amended.
    (c) To exercise the rights, powers and duties formerly
vested by law in the Director of Financial Institutions under
"An act authorizing foreign corporations, including banks and
national banking associations domiciled in other states, to act
in a fiduciary capacity in this state upon certain conditions
herein set forth", approved July 13, 1953, as amended.
    (c-5) To exercise all of the rights, powers, and duties
granted to the Director or Secretary under the Illinois Banking
Act, the Corporate Fiduciary Act, the Electronic Fund Transfer
Act, the Illinois Bank Holding Company Act of 1957, the Savings
Bank Act, the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985, the
Savings and Loan Share and Account Act, the Residential
Mortgage License Act of 1987, and the Pawnbroker Regulation
Act.
    (c-15) To enter into cooperative agreements with
appropriate federal and out-of-state state regulatory agencies
to conduct and otherwise perform any examination of a regulated
entity as authorized under the Illinois Banking Act, the
Corporate Fiduciary Act, the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, the
Illinois Bank Holding Company Act of 1957, the Savings Bank
Act, the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985, the Residential
Mortgage License Act of 1987, and the Pawnbroker Regulation
Act.
    (d) Whenever the Commissioner is authorized or required by
law to consider or to make findings regarding the character of
incorporators, directors, management personnel, or other
relevant individuals under the Illinois Banking Act, the
Corporate Fiduciary Act, the Pawnbroker Regulation Act, or at
other times as the Commissioner deems necessary for the purpose
of carrying out the Commissioner's statutory powers and
responsibilities, the Commissioner shall consider criminal
history record information, including nonconviction
information, pursuant to the Criminal Identification Act. The
Commissioner shall, in the form and manner required by the
Department of State Police and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, cause to be conducted a criminal history record
investigation to obtain information currently contained in the
files of the Department of State Police or the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, provided that the Commissioner need not cause
additional criminal history record investigations to be
conducted on individuals for whom the Commissioner, a federal
bank regulatory agency, or any other government agency has
caused such investigations to have been conducted previously
unless such additional investigations are otherwise required
by law or unless the Commissioner deems such additional
investigations to be necessary for the purposes of carrying out
the Commissioner's statutory powers and responsibilities. The
Department of State Police shall provide, on the Commissioner's
request, information concerning criminal charges and their
disposition currently on file with respect to a relevant
individual. Information obtained as a result of an
investigation under this Section shall be used in determining
eligibility to be an incorporator, director, management
personnel, or other relevant individual in relation to a
financial institution or other entity supervised by the
Commissioner. Upon request and payment of fees in conformance
with the requirements of Section 2605-400 of the Department of
State Police Law (20 ILCS 2605/2605-400), the Department of
State Police is authorized to furnish, pursuant to positive
identification, such information contained in State files as is
necessary to fulfill the request.
    (e) When issuing charters, permits, licenses, or other
authorizations, the Commissioner may impose such terms and
conditions on the issuance as he deems necessary or
appropriate. Failure to abide by those terms and conditions may
result in the revocation of the issuance, the imposition of
corrective orders, or the imposition of civil money penalties.
    (f) If the Commissioner has reasonable cause to believe
that any entity that has not submitted an application for
authorization or licensure is conducting any activity that
would otherwise require authorization or licensure by the
Commissioner, the Commissioner shall have the power to subpoena
witnesses, to compel their attendance, to require the
production of any relevant books, papers, accounts, and
documents, and to conduct an examination of the entity in order
to determine whether the entity is subject to authorization or
licensure by the Commissioner or the Division. If the Secretary
determines that the entity is subject to authorization or
licensure by the Secretary, then the Secretary shall have the
power to issue orders against or take any other action,
including initiating a receivership against the unauthorized
or unlicensed entity.
    (g) The Commissioner may, through the Attorney General,
request the circuit court of any county to issue an injunction
to restrain any person from violating the provisions of any Act
administered by the Commissioner.
    (h) Whenever the Commissioner is authorized to take any
action or required by law to consider or make findings, the
Commissioner may delegate or appoint, in writing, an officer or
employee of the Division to take that action or make that
finding.
    (i) Whenever the Secretary determines that it is in the
public's interest, he or she may publish any cease and desist
order or other enforcement action issued by the Division.
(Source: P.A. 96-1365, eff. 7-28-10.)
 
    (20 ILCS 3205/6)  (from Ch. 17, par. 456)
    Sec. 6. Duties. The Commissioner shall direct and supervise
all the administrative and technical activities of the Office
and shall:
    (a) Apply and carry out this Act and the law and all rules
adopted in pursuance thereof.
    (b) Appoint, subject to the provisions of the Personnel
Code, such employees, experts, and special assistants as may be
necessary to carry out effectively the provisions of this Act
and, if the rate of compensation is not otherwise fixed by law,
fix their compensation; but neither the Commissioner nor any
deputy commissioner shall be subject to the Personnel Code.
    (c) Serve as Chairman of the State Banking Board of
Illinois.
    (d) Serve as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the
Illinois Bank Examiners' Education Foundation.
    (e) Issue guidelines in the form of rules or regulations
which will prohibit discrimination by any State chartered bank
against any individual, corporation, partnership, association
or other entity because it appears in a so-called blacklist
issued by any domestic or foreign corporate or governmental
entity.
    (f) Make an annual report to the Governor regarding the
work of the Office as the Commissioner may consider desirable
or as the Governor may request.
    (g) Perform such other acts as may be requested by the
State Banking Board of Illinois pursuant to its lawful powers
and perform any other lawful act that the Commissioner
considers to be necessary or desirable to carry out the
purposes and provisions of this Act.
    (h) Adopt, in accordance with the Illinois Administrative
Procedure Act, reasonable rules that the Commissioner deems
necessary for the proper administration and enforcement of any
Act the administration of which is vested in the Commissioner
or the Office of Banks and Real Estate.
    (i) Work in cooperation with the Director of Aging to
encourage all financial institutions regulated by the Office to
participate fully in the Department on Aging's financial
exploitation of the elderly intervention program.
    (j) Deposit all funds received, including civil penalties,
pursuant to the Illinois Banking Act, the Corporate Fiduciary
Act, the Illinois Bank Holding Company Act of 1957, and the
Check Printer and Check Number Act in the Bank and Trust
Company Fund.
(Source: P.A. 92-483, eff. 8-23-01; 93-786, eff. 7-21-04.)
 
    Section 10. The State Finance Act is amended by adding
Section 5.786 as follows:
 
    (30 ILCS 105/5.786 new)
    Sec. 5.786. The Savings Institutions Regulatory Fund.
 
    Section 15. The Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985 is
amended by changing Sections 1-10.01, 1A-8, 2-5, 3-2, 3-6, 3-7,
5-7, 6-2, 6-2.1, 6-4, 6-5, 6-7, 6-8, 6-9, 6-10, 6-11, 6-12,
6-13, 6-15, 7-5, 7-7, 7-15, 7-19.1, 7-20, 7-21, 7-23, 7-24,
7-25, 7-26, 7-27, and 8-4 and by adding Sections 1-10.40, 6-16,
and 7-19.2 as follows:
 
    (205 ILCS 105/1-10.01)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3301-10.01)
    Sec. 1-10.01. "Board": the Board of Savings Institutions,
as described in Sections 7-20 through 7-22 7-26 of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 89-508, eff. 7-3-96.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/1-10.40 new)
    Sec. 1-10.40. Depository institution. "Depository
institution", as used in this Act, means an insured depository
institution as defined by Section 3(c)(2) of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1813), as amended, or an
insured credit union as defined by Section 101(7) of the
Federal Credit Union Act (12 U.S.C. 1752(7)), as amended.
 
    (205 ILCS 105/1A-8)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3301A-8)
    Sec. 1A-8. (a) An association, including a mutual
association operating under this Act, may reorganize so as to
become a holding company by:
    (1) chartering one or more subsidiary associations, the
ownership of which shall be evidenced by stock shares, to be
owned by the chartering parent association; and
    (2) by transferring the substantial portion of its assets
and all of its insured deposits and part or all of its other
liabilities to one or more subsidiary associations.
    (b) In order to effect reorganization under subsection (a),
the Board of Directors of the original association must approve
a plan providing for such reorganization which shall be
submitted for approval by a majority of the voting members of
the association. Approval must occur at a meeting called by the
Board of Directors and in accordance with the association's
Articles of Incorporation and By-laws. The Secretary may
Commissioner shall promulgate rules to regulate the formation
of and the ongoing business of the subsidiaries and the holding
company, including the rights of members, levels of investment
in holding company subsidiaries and stock sales.
(Source: P.A. 85-1143.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/2-5)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3302-5)
    Sec. 2-5. Subscriptions to capital and temporary
organization.
    Upon receipt of the permit to organize an association, the
applicants shall constitute the organization committee and
shall perfect a temporary organization by electing a chairman,
vice-chairman and a secretary of the association, who shall act
as the temporary officers of such association until their
successors are duly elected and qualified. Such temporary
officers thereupon shall proceed to:
    (a) Secure subscriptions for the required amount of capital
in form and manner approved by the Secretary Commissioner; and
    (b) Call a meeting of subscribers, who shall adopt articles
of incorporation and elect at least 5 directors to serve until
the first annual meeting of the association and until their
successors are elected and qualified.
(Source: P.A. 84-543.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/3-2)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3303-2)
    Sec. 3-2. Members' meetings.
    (a) Each annual meeting of the members shall be held at the
time specified in the by-laws; but the failure to hold an
annual meeting at the time so specified shall not work a
forfeiture or dissolution of the association. The board of
directors, or the holders of not less than 20% of the
outstanding permanent reserve shares or of the withdrawal value
of all withdrawable capital of the association, or such other
person or persons as may be designated by the by-laws, may call
a special meeting of the members. Every annual or special
meeting shall be held at the business office of the
association, or, if the space therein available for such
meeting is inadequate, in such other place within the same
county as shall be specifically designated in the notice of
such meeting.
    (b) Notice of an annual meeting shall be published once not
less than 10 days nor more than 40 days before the date of the
meeting and shall be posted in areas of public access at the
place of business of the association in a manner that may to be
prescribed by the Secretary Commissioner. Such notice shall be
prominently and continuously displayed up to and including the
day of the meeting beginning not less than 60 days immediately
preceding the date of such meeting.
    (c) However, for any special meeting, for any annual
meeting which is to consider any proposition the affirmative
action on which requires two-thirds vote as set forth in this
Act, or for any proposition to amend the articles of
incorporation of the association, the notice shall be by mail,
post marked not less than 10 days or more than 40 days before
the date of the meeting, and by posting at the association's
place of business in a like manner as for an annual meeting,
with such posting to commence on the date notice is given.
Published or mailed notice shall state the place, day, hour and
purpose of the meeting.
    (d) A quorum at any meeting of the members shall consist of
the members present in person or represented by proxy, who are
entitled to cast a majority of the total number of votes which
all members of the association are entitled to cast at such
meeting; except that the articles of incorporation may specify
some other quorum requirement, but not less than one-third of
such total number of votes. Any meeting, including one at which
a quorum is not present, may be adjourned by majority vote to a
specified date without further notice.
    (e) Voting at a meeting may be either in person or by proxy
executed in writing by the member or shareholder or by his duly
authorized attorney-in-fact. No proxy shall be valid:
        (1) Unless executed in an instrument separate from
    other forms, documents or papers which pertain to any
    matter of the association or a member's interest therein.
    The form of such instrument may shall be prescribed by the
    Secretary Commissioner, who shall give due regard to size,
    color, appearance and distinctiveness;
        (2) For any meeting at which the member who gave it is
    present, provided that notice that the member will himself
    exercise his voting rights is given in writing prior to the
    taking of any vote to an official whom the association
    shall at each meeting identify as having responsibility for
    such matter and provided further that the validity and
    duration of such proxy will be otherwise unimpaired;
        (3) Unless the member giving the proxy is told by the
    person to whom it is given, or his agent or representative,
    that the proxy is optional and the voting rights it
    represents can be exercised by the member himself; that if
    it is given it can be cancelled at any time by giving
    notice in writing at the association's office at least 5
    days prior to any meeting, and that meeting alone, at which
    the member is present and has given written notification of
    his intent to exercise his voting rights; the provisions of
    this paragraph shall only be applicable to associations not
    maintaining insurance of the association's withdrawable
    capital;
        (4) Unless the member giving the proxy is told by the
    person to whom it is given, or his agent or representative,
    the name of the individual who will exercise the proxy;
    that the effect of the proxy will be to entitle the person
    to whom it is given to use the vote or votes the proxy
    represents as if it or they were that person's own vote or
    votes; and that, if the proxy is given to someone
    representing the management of the association, the effect
    of the proxy will be to support the policies and procedures
    of the association's management; the provisions of this
    paragraph shall only be applicable to associations not
    maintaining insurance of the association's withdrawable
    capital; or
        (5) After 11 months from the date of its execution,
    unless otherwise provided in the proxy and unless the
    member giving the proxy is notified in writing when it will
    terminate.
    (f) In the determination of all questions requiring
ascertainment of the members entitled to vote and of the number
of outstanding shares, the following rules shall apply:
        (1) The date of determination shall be as provided in
    the Section of this Act concerning Record Date for Voting,
    Dividend and Other Purposes;
        (2) Each person holding one or more withdrawable share
    accounts shall have the vote of one share for each $100 of
    the aggregate withdrawal value of such accounts and shall
    have the vote of one share for any fraction of $100;
        (3) Each holder of permanent reserve shares shall have
    one vote for each permanent reserve share which he holds;
        (4) Each borrowing member as such shall have the vote
    of one share in addition to any vote which he may have
    otherwise;
        (5) Shares owned by the association shall not be
    counted or voted; and
        (6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act to
    the contrary, an association authorized to issue permanent
    reserve shares may provide in the association's articles of
    incorporation that voting rights shall be vested
    exclusively in permanent reserve shareholders.
(Source: P.A. 89-355, eff. 8-17-95.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/3-6)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3303-6)
    Sec. 3-6. Officers; Suspension and removal of officers,
directors and employees.
     (a) The officers of an association shall consist of a
president, one or more vice presidents, a secretary, a
treasurer and such other officers as the by-laws shall provide,
to be elected by the directors; if the by-laws so provide, any
2 or more offices may be held by the same person, except that
one person shall not hold the offices of president and
secretary. The duties and powers of the secretary of the
association may be set forth in the by-laws of the association
and may be exercised by any other officer designated by the
board of directors.
    (b) The existence of an association shall not terminate by
reason of the failure to elect officers at the time mentioned
in the by-laws, and each officer shall hold his office until
his successor is elected and qualified.
    (c) Whenever any officer, director or employee of an
association or of a holding company operating under this Act is
charged in any indictment with the commission of or
participation in a crime involving the affairs of any
association incorporated under this Act or of a holding company
operating under this Act, a federal association or any other
financial institution, the Secretary Commissioner may, by
written notice served upon such officer, director or employee,
suspend him from office. Such suspension shall remain in effect
(unless such officer, director or employee sooner resigns or is
not reappointed or reelected at the expiration of his term of
office) until such officer, director or employee is convicted
or is adjudged not guilty of such offense or the indictment is
dismissed or otherwise disposed of. If such officer, director,
or employee is convicted of such offense, he shall thereupon
cease to be an officer, director, or employee of such
association; but if he is found not guilty, his suspension
shall automatically be terminated. The Secretary Commissioner
may request the Attorney General to file an action on his
behalf to enforce any order made under this subsection.
    (d) The board of directors shall designate and determine
the management structure of the association and elect or
appoint all officers. Each of the officers elected or appointed
by the board of directors shall serve at the pleasure of the
board of directors or pursuant to a written employment contract
between the officer and the association.
    (e) Whenever the Secretary Commissioner determines that
any officer, director or employee of an association or a
holding company operating under this Act has committed a
violation of any law, rule, regulation or order of the
Secretary Commissioner, and that such violation or continued
violation may result in a substantial financial loss or other
substantial damage to the association or holding company or
that the interests of its members may be seriously prejudiced
by such violation or continued violation, the Secretary
Commissioner shall notify such officer, director or employee of
his intention to issue an order and may thereafter issue an
order suspending such person from office or prohibiting his
participation in the conduct of the affairs of the association
or holding company, or both. The notice to such person shall
contain a statement of facts constituting the grounds for such
order; shall fix a time when such order will be issued; and
shall state the effective date of such order, which shall be
not less than 10 days after the date of the order. A copy of
such notice and order shall be sent to the association or
holding company. Such order shall be and remain in effect from
the effective date specified in the notice provided for under
this Section until such time as the order is removed by the
Secretary Commissioner or until the order is removed, modified
or stayed pursuant to the Administrative Review Law.
    (f) Officers and directors of any entity operating under
this Act shall also disclose to the Secretary Commissioner any
and all criminal proceedings in which they have been a party or
participated which resulted in a grant of immunity from
prosecution, a conviction, a plea of nolo contendere or its
equivalent, or which are currently pending.
(Source: P.A. 86-137.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/3-7)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3303-7)
    Sec. 3-7. Bonds of officers and employees.
    (a) Every person appointed or elected to any position
requiring the receipt, payment, management or use of money
belonging to an association, or whose duties permit him to have
access to or custody of any of its money or securities or whose
duties permit him regularly to make entries in the books or
other records of the association, before assuming his duties
shall become bonded in some trust or company authorized to
issue bonds in this state, or in a fidelity insurance company
licensed to do business in this State. Each such bond shall be
on a form or forms as the Secretary may Commissioner shall
require and in such amount as the board of directors shall fix
and approve. Each such bond, payable to the association, shall
be an indemnity for any loss the association may sustain in
money or other property through any dishonest or criminal act
or omission by any person required to be bonded, committed
either alone or in concert with others. Such bond shall be in
the form and amount prescribed by the Secretary Commissioner,
who may at any time require one or more additional bonds. Each
bond shall provide that a cancellation thereof either by the
surety or by the insured shall not become effective unless and
until 30 days notice in writing first shall have been given to
the Secretary Commissioner, unless he shall have approved such
cancellation earlier.
    (b) Nothing contained herein shall preclude the Secretary
Commissioner from proceeding against an association as
provided in this Act should he believe that it is being
conducted in an unsafe manner in that the form or amount of
bonds so fixed and approved by the board of directors is
inadequate to give reasonable protection to the association.
(Source: P.A. 96-1365, eff. 7-28-10.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/5-7)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3305-7)
    Sec. 5-7. Sale, assignment and servicing of loans and
contracts.
    (a) Any association may sell any loan or a participating
interest in a loan at any time, in the usual and regular course
of business. All loans sold shall be sold without recourse
except as may otherwise be provided by regulations of the
Secretary Commissioner. The Secretary Commissioner may, by
regulation, adopt limitations upon the sale of loans. The
provisions of this paragraph (a) do not apply to the sale of
loans to agencies of the United States or the State of Illinois
or such other government sponsored agencies as may be approved
by the Secretary Commissioner.
    (b) An association may contract to service a loan or a
participating interest in a loan, but such a contract shall
conform to any the pertinent regulations prescribed by the
Secretary Commissioner and shall require sufficient
compensation to reimburse the association for all expenses
incurred under such contract.
    (c) An association may sell and assign without recourse any
master's certificate of sale, defaulted loan or defaulted real
estate contract to any person eligible to purchase the same,
for an amount not less than the fair cash market value thereof.
(Source: P.A. 84-543.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/6-2)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3306-2)
    Sec. 6-2. Procedure to amend articles of incorporation. The
procedure to effect an amendment of articles of incorporation
shall be as follows:
    (a) The board of directors shall adopt a resolution setting
forth the proposed amendment and directing that it be submitted
to a vote at a meeting of the members, which may be an annual or
a special meeting;
    (b) The proposed amendment, or a summary of the changes to
be effective thereby, shall be set forth in the notice of
meeting mailed as prescribed in the Section of this Act
concerning Members' Meetings;
    (c) The proposed amendment will be adopted upon receiving,
in the affirmative, 50% or more of the total number of votes
which all members of the association are entitled to cast
unless the articles of incorporation set forth, pursuant to
Section 2-8 of this Act, a requirement that amendments to the
articles of incorporation shall be adopted upon receiving, in
the affirmative, two-thirds or more of the total number of
votes that all members of the association are entitled to cast;
provided that an amendment effecting a retirement of all
permanent reserve capital must receive the vote specified in
the Section of this Act concerning Retirement or Reduction of
Permanent Reserve Capital. A report of proceedings, verified by
the president or a vice-president and attested by the secretary
of the association and setting forth the notice given and time
of mailing thereof, the amendment adopted, the vote thereon and
the total number of votes which all members of the association
were entitled to cast thereon, shall be filed promptly with the
Commissioner;
    (d) Each adopted amendment shall be subject to the same
inquiry by the Commissioner as the corresponding provision in
original articles of incorporation, including (but not limited
to) the availability of a proposed new name of the association.
If the Commissioner approves an amendment, he shall issue to
the association a certificate setting forth the amendment and
his approval thereof. The amendment shall become effective when
such certificate is recorded in the same manner as the
association's articles of incorporation; and
    (e) No amendment of articles of incorporation shall affect
any existing cause of action either in favor of or against the
association or any pending action in which the association
shall be a party or the existing rights of persons other than
members of the association; and if the amendment has changed
the name of the association, no action brought by or against
the association under its former name shall be abated for that
reason.
(Source: P.A. 89-355, eff. 8-17-95.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/6-2.1)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3306-2.1)
    Sec. 6-2.1. Procedure to amend articles of incorporation
for name change.
    (a) Notwithstanding the requirements of Section 6-2 of this
Act, an association, after commencing business, may amend its
articles of incorporation Notwithstanding any provision of
this Act to the contrary, the Commissioner may waive the
requirements of Section 6-2 if the proposed amendment is solely
for purposes of changing the name of the association, and upon
satisfactory completion of the following requirements:
        (1) Submission by the board of directors of a certified
    resolution approving the proposed name change and
    approving a plan for notifying all parties who may be
    affected by the change, including, but not limited to,
    members, account holders, borrowers, creditors, and
    parties to whom or with whom commitments of any type are
    pending name change by unanimous vote of all members of the
    board.
        (2) The new name, as determined by the Secretary, meets
    the requirements for names under this Act or rules adopted
    by the Secretary. Submission by the board of an attorney's
    opinion that the proposed name is not the same as the name
    of any other financial institution in Illinois.
    Upon satisfactory completion of these requirements, the
    Secretary shall issue an approved amendment to the articles
    of incorporation as provided for in subsection (d) of
    Section 6-2 of this Act.
        (3) Submission of a detailed statement to the
    Commissioner by the board of directors stating the grounds
    for their belief that a vote of members would be
    detrimental to the association's safety and soundness.
        (4) Submission of a plan for notifying all parties who
    would be affected by the change, including a list of
    creditors, and parties to whom or with whom, commitments of
    any type may be pending.
        (5) Satisfactory evidence that the name change is not
    for fraudulent, illegal or misleading purposes.
    Upon receipt of the above items the Commissioner shall
    issue an approved amendment to the articles of
    incorporation as provided for in subsection (d) of Section
    6-2 of this Act.
    (b) No amendment of the articles of incorporation to change
the name of an association shall affect any existing cause of
action either in favor of or against the association, or any
pending action in which the association shall be a party, nor
shall it affect the existing rights of persons other than
members of the association. No action brought by or against the
association under its former name shall be abated by reason of
the change.
(Source: P.A. 86-137.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/6-4)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3306-4)
    Sec. 6-4. Merger; Adoption of plan. Any depository
institution may merge into an association operating under this
Act; any association operating under this Act may merge into a
depository institution. Any 2 or more associations operating
under this Act or under Federal charter and located in this
State, or duly authorized to do business in this State, may
merge into one association operating under this Act. Any
association operating under this Act that does not meet its net
worth requirements, as defined by regulations of the
Commissioner, and any federal association may merge into one
association operating under this Act or under federal charter
and located in this State. Any association operating under this
Act and an eligible insured bank may merge into an association
operating under this Act, provided that an association
operating under this Act must result from the merger. Any
association operating under this Act may merge into a State or
national bank with a bank resulting from the merger. The board
of directors of the merging association or depository
institution, State or national bank, or eligible insured bank,
by resolution adopted by a majority vote of all members of the
board, must approve the plan of merger, which shall set forth:
    (a) The name of each of the merging associations or
depository institutions , State or national bank, or eligible
insured bank and the name of the continuing association or
depository institution bank and the location of its business
office;
    (b) The amount of capital, reserves, and undivided profits
of the continuing association or depository institution bank
and the kinds of shares and other types of capital to be issued
thereby;
    (c) The articles of incorporation of the continuing
association or charter of the continuing depository
institution bank;
    (d) A detailed pro forma financial Statement of the assets
and liabilities of the continuing association or depository
institution bank;
    (e) The manner and basis of converting the capital of each
merging association or depository institution , State or
national bank or eligible insured bank into capital of the
continuing association or depository institution bank;
    (f) The other terms and conditions of the merger and the
method of effectuating it; and
    (g) Other provisions with respect to the merger that appear
necessary or desirable or that the Secretary Commissioner may
reasonably require to enable him to discharge his duties with
respect to the merger.
    (h) The Secretary Commissioner may promulgate rules to
implement this Section.
(Source: P.A. 86-952; 87-1226.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/6-5)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3306-5)
    Sec. 6-5. Merger; approval by Secretary Commissioner.
    (a) The plan of merger adopted as authorized by Section
6-4, except when the merger results in a State or national
bank, shall be submitted to the Secretary Commissioner for
approval, together with a certified copy of the authorizing
resolution of each board of directors, showing approval by a
majority of the entire board of each merging association or
eligible insured bank operating under this Act or merging
federal association.
    (b) The Secretary Commissioner may make or cause to be made
an examination of the affairs of each of the merging
associations or depository institutions under the Secretary's
authority eligible insured bank.
    (c) The Secretary Commissioner may approve the plan of
merger, or if the Secretary Commissioner disapproves the plan
of merger, he shall state State his objections in writing and
give the merging associations or depository institution
eligible insured bank an opportunity to amend the plan of
merger to address obviate the objections. The Secretary
Commissioner may require that the plan of merger be submitted
to the members of the merging association for approval. Each
meeting of the members of an association operating under this
Act shall be called and held in accordance with Section 3-2 of
this Act. The plan is approved by the members of an association
if it receives the affirmative vote of two-thirds or more of
the total votes that the members of the association are
entitled to cast.
(Source: P.A. 86-952; 87-1226.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/6-7)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3306-7)
    Sec. 6-7. Merger - Secretary's Commissioner's certificate;
effective date.
    (a) If the plan of merger is approved, the Secretary
Commissioner thereupon shall issue to the continuing
association a certificate of merger, setting forth the name of
each merging association or depository institution eligible
insured bank and the name of the continuing association, and
the articles of incorporation of the continuing association;
and attaching thereto, as a part thereof, a copy of the
resolution of the directors of each merging association or
depository institution eligible insured bank and a copy of the
report of proceedings of the members' meeting, if required
under paragraph (c) of Section 6-5 of this Act.
    (b) The merger takes effect upon the recording of the
certificate of merger in the same manner as articles of
incorporation, in each county in which the business office of
any of the merging associations or depository institution
eligible insured bank was located, and in the county in which
the business office of the continuing association is located.
    (c) When duly recorded, the certificate of merger is
conclusive evidence, except against the State, of the merger
and of the correctness and validity of all proceedings in
connection with the merger.
(Source: P.A. 86-952.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/6-8)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3306-8)
    Sec. 6-8. Merger; Secretary's Commissioner's expenses. The
expenses of any examination made by or at the direction of the
Secretary Commissioner in connection with a proposed merger
shall be paid by the continuing associations or depository
institutions under the Secretary's authority resulting bank.
(Source: P.A. 86-952; 87-1226.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/6-9)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3306-9)
    Sec. 6-9. Effect of merger.
    (a) The continuing association or depository institution
resulting bank shall be considered the same business and
corporate entity as each merging association, with all of the
property, rights, powers, duties and obligations of each
merging association, except as otherwise provided by the
articles of incorporation of the continuing association or
depository institution resulting bank.
    (b) All liabilities of each of the merging associations or
depository institutions associations, resulting bank, or
eligible insured bank shall be liabilities of the continuing
association or resulting bank; and all of the rights,
franchises, and interests of each of the merging associations
or eligible insured bank in and to every kind of property,
real, personal or mixed, shall vest automatically in the
continuing association or depository institution resulting
bank, without any deed or other transfer.
    (c) Any reference to a merging association or depository
institution , resulting bank, or eligible insured bank in any
writing, whether executed or effective before or after the
merger, shall be deemed a reference to the continuing
association or depository institution resulting bank, if not
inconsistent with the other provisions of such writing.
    (d) No pending action or other judicial proceeding to which
any merging association or depository institution , resulting
bank, or eligible insured bank is a party shall be abated or
dismissed by reason of the merger, but shall be prosecuted to
final judgment in the same manner as if the merger had not
occurred.
    (e) (Blank). With respect to a merger with an eligible
insured bank, an association operating under this Act must
result from the merger, and provided further that the
association must conform all assets acquired or liabilities
incurred as the result of the merger to the legal requirements
for assets acquired, held, or invested or liabilities assumed
or incurred by an association operating under this Act and that
the continuing association shall conform all of its activities
to those activities in which an association operating under
this Act is authorized to engage.
(Source: P.A. 86-952; 87-1226.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/6-10)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3306-10)
    Sec. 6-10. Sale of assets.
    (a) An association, in one transaction not in the usual and
regular course of its business, may sell all or substantially
all of its assets, with or without its name and goodwill, to
another association or depository institution to a Federal
association, in consideration of money, capital or obligations
of the purchasing association or depository institution. An
association may sell any office or facility and equipment in
conformity with regulations of the Secretary Commissioner.
    (b) Emergency sale of assets. With the approval in writing
of the Secretary Commissioner, which approval shall state that
the proposed sale is, in his opinion, necessary for the
protection of the depositors and other creditors, any
association that is an eligible depository institution as
defined in Section 2 of the Illinois Banking Act may by a vote
of a majority of its board of directors, and without a vote of
its members or permanent reserve shareholders, sell all or any
part of its assets to another association or depository
institution State or Federally chartered association or to a
bank as defined in Section 2 of the Illinois Banking Act or to
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or to both a State
or Federally chartered association or bank and the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation, provided that the purchasing a
State or Federally chartered association or depository
institution bank assumes in writing all of the liabilities of
the selling association and that any such sale to a bank shall
be by an eligible depository institution as defined in Section
2 of the Illinois Banking Act.
    (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, an
association may sell to an association or depository
institution any bank, as defined in Section 2 of the Illinois
Banking Act, an insubstantial portion of its total deposits.
For the purpose of this subsection, an insubstantial portion of
its total deposits shall have the same meaning as provided in
Section 5(d)(2)(D) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. Such
sale of an insubstantial portion of an association's deposits
may be by vote of a majority of the board of directors, and
with approval of the Secretary Commissioner without a vote of
its members or permanent reserve shareholders.
(Source: P.A. 86-952.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/6-11)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3306-11)
    Sec. 6-11. Procedure to effect sale of all assets. The
procedure to effect a sale authorized by subsection (a) of
Section 6-10 shall be as follows:
    (a) The board of directors shall adopt a resolution setting
forth the terms of the proposed sale and shall submit the plan
to the Secretary Commissioner for his preliminary approval.
Upon receipt of approval by the Secretary Commissioner, the
plan shall be submitted to a vote at a meeting of the members,
which may be an annual or special meeting;
    (b) The terms shall be set forth in the notice of meeting
mailed as prescribed in Section 3-2 of this Act;
    (c) The proposed sale will be approved by the members upon
receiving in the affirmative 2/3 or more of the total number of
votes which all members of the association are entitled to
cast. A proposal for the voluntary liquidation of the
association shall be submitted to the members at the same
meeting or at any adjournment thereof, or at any later meeting
called for such purpose, in accordance with Article 9 of this
Act. A report of proceedings, certified by the president or a
vice-president and attested by the secretary of the
association, and setting forth the terms of the proposed sale,
the notice given and time of mailing thereof, the vote on the
proposal, and the total number of votes which all members of
the association were entitled to cast thereon, shall be filed
with the Secretary Commissioner;
    (d) If the Secretary Commissioner finds that the proposed
sale is fair to all holders of capital, creditors and other
persons concerned, and provision has been made for the
disposition of the remaining assets, if any, of the association
as provided in this Act for reorganization or voluntary
liquidation, then he shall issue to the association a
certificate of authorization for such sale, attaching thereto,
as a part thereof, a copy of the report of proceedings filed as
aforesaid;
    (e) Upon recording the Secretary's Commissioner's
certificate in the same manner as the association's articles of
incorporation, the association may complete the sale so
authorized; except that an insured association first shall
obtain the approval of the insurance corporation;
    (f) If the sale includes the name of the association, the
purchasing depository institution association shall have the
exclusive right to such name for a period of 5 years; and
    (g) If the association has failed to adopt a plan of
voluntary liquidation, the Secretary Commissioner may proceed
against such association as provided in Article 10 of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 86-952.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/6-12)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3306-12)
    Sec. 6-12. Conversion from State to Federal association.
Any association operating under this Act may become a Federal
association pursuant to the laws and regulations of the United
States and in accordance with the following procedure:
    (a) The board of directors shall approve a plan of
conversion by resolution adopted by majority vote of all of the
directors. The plan shall set forth, among other terms:
        (1) A financial statement of the association as of the
    last business day of the month preceding the adoption of
    the plan;
        (2) The disposition of withdrawable capital and
    permanent reserve capital, if any;
        (3) Adjustments, if any, in the value of the
    withdrawable accounts when exchanged for comparable
    accounts in the Federal association;
        (4) The disposition of any segregated surplus
    established under Section 4-5 of this Act;
        (5) The disposition of any obligations or liabilities;
    and
        (6) Such other information as may be required by the
    Secretary Commissioner;
    (b) The plan shall not be submitted to the members until
approved by the Secretary Commissioner;
    (c) The Secretary Commissioner may approve the plan; or if
the Secretary Commissioner disapproves the plan, he shall state
his objections in writing and give the converting association
an opportunity to amend the plan to obviate such objections.
Approval shall be given in such case if the Secretary
Commissioner finds that the plan meets the requirements of this
Act and the plan is equitable and protects the rights of all
persons affected, including such contingent interests as
theretofore may have been created in the segregated surplus, if
any;
    (d) After receipt of such approval from the Secretary
Commissioner, the plan of conversion shall be mailed to each
member and may be submitted to a vote at an annual or special
meeting of the members. The plan will be adopted upon receiving
in the affirmative 2/3 or more of the total number of votes
which all members of the association are entitled to cast. A
report of proceedings at such meeting, certified by the
president or a vice-president and attested by the secretary of
the association, shall be filed promptly with the Secretary
Commissioner;
    (e) Within 90 days after the date of such meeting, the
association shall take the action prescribed and authorized by
the laws and regulations of the United States to complete its
conversion to a Federal association; and
    (f) Upon receipt of a Federal charter, the association
shall file promptly with the Secretary Commissioner either a
copy of such charter or a certificate of the appropriate
Federal officers setting forth the facts concerning the
issuance of such charter; and upon recording the charter in the
same manner as the association's articles of incorporation, the
association shall cease to be an association operating under
this Act.
(Source: P.A. 84-543.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/6-13)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3306-13)
    Sec. 6-13. Conversion from Federal to State association.
Any Federal association may become an association operating
under this Act, pursuant to the laws and regulations of the
United States and in accordance with the following procedure:
    (a) The board of directors shall adopt a plan of
conversion, which shall set forth, among other terms, the
provisions required in sub-section (a) of the preceding Section
of this Act. Such plan and resolution shall be submitted to the
Secretary Commissioner;
    (b) If the Secretary Commissioner, after appropriate
examination, shall find that the association complies
sufficiently with the requirements of this Act to entitle it to
become an association operating under this Act, he shall
approve the plan of conversion. However, he may prescribe terms
and conditions, to be fulfilled either prior to or after the
conversion, to cause the association to conform with the
requirements of this Act;
    (c) After receipt of the Secretary's Commissioner's
approval, the plan of conversion may be submitted at an annual
or special meeting of the members; and the plan will be adopted
upon receiving in the affirmative 2/3 or more of the total
number of votes which all members of the association are
entitled to cast. Thereupon, such action shall be taken to
adopt articles of incorporation, to elect directors, to adopt
by-laws and to elect officers as is prescribed for a new
association in the Article of this Act concerning Incorporation
and Organization. A report of proceedings at such meeting,
certified by the president or a vice-president and attested by
the secretary of the association, shall be filed promptly with
the Secretary Commissioner;
    (d) If the Secretary Commissioner finds that such
proceedings have been in accordance with the provisions of this
Section, he shall issue a certificate of conversion, setting
forth the articles of incorporation and attaching, as a part of
the certificate, a copy of the report of proceedings filed as
aforesaid; and
    (e) The conversion shall become effective upon the
recording of the certificate of conversion in the manner
required by this Act for the recording of articles of
incorporation.
(Source: P.A. 84-543.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/6-15)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3306-15)
    Sec. 6-15. Emergency merger. With the prior approval of the
Secretary Commissioner, which approval shall state that the
proposed merger is in his opinion necessary for the protection
of the depositors and other creditors, any association that is
an eligible depository institution as defined in Section 2 of
the Illinois Banking Act, may by a vote of a majority of its
board of directors and without a vote of its members or
permanent reserve shareholders merge with an association or
depository institution, federal association, or bank as
defined in Section 2 of the Illinois Banking Act, with such
other association or depository institution , federal
association, or bank being the resulting or continuing
association or depository institution , federal association or
bank.
(Source: P.A. 86-952.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/6-16 new)
    Sec. 6-16. Waiver of requirements. Notwithstanding any
provision of this Article, the requirements imposed by this
Article on an association that seeks to convert to, merge into,
or sell substantially all of its assets to a depository
institution that is not an association shall be no more
burdensome or restrictive than the requirements imposed by
federal or other State law on a depository institution that is
not an association that seeks to convert to, merge into, or
sell substantially all of its assets to an association. The
Secretary may waive any such requirement imposed by this
Article that is more burdensome or restrictive.
 
    (205 ILCS 105/7-5)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3307-5)
    Sec. 7-5. Examination.
    (a) The Secretary Commissioner, at least once every 18
months, but more often if he deems it necessary or expedient,
with or without previous notice, shall cause an examination to
be made of the affairs of every association, including any
holding company and subsidiary thereof. If an association or
holding company has not been audited at least once in the
preceding 12 months in accordance with this Act, the
examination shall include an audit by licensed public
accountants employed or appointed by the Secretary
Commissioner. Such examination shall be made by competent
examiners appointed for that purpose who are not officers or
agents of, or in any manner interested in, any association or
holding company which they examine, except that they may be
holders of withdrawable capital. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Act, every eligible association, as defined
by regulation, or, if not so defined, to an equivalent extent
as would be permitted in the case of a State bank, the
Secretary, in lieu of the examination, may accept on an
alternating basis the examination made by the appropriate
federal banking regulator, or its successor, pursuant to the
federal Home Owners' Loan Act, provided the appropriate federal
banking regulator, or its successor, has made an examination.
    (b) The officers, agents or directors of any such
association or holding company shall cause the books of the
association or holding company to be opened for inspection by
the Secretary Commissioner or his examiners and otherwise
assist in such examination when requested; and for the purpose
of examination, the examiner in charge thereof shall have power
to administer oaths and to examine under oath any officers,
employees, agents or directors of such association or holding
company and such other witnesses as he deems necessary relative
to the business of the association or holding company.
    (c) The Secretary Commissioner shall make a report of each
examination to the board of directors of the association or
holding company examined, which report shall be read by each
director, who will then execute a signed statement affidavit to
be filed and preserved by the association or holding company
acknowledging that he has read the Secretary's Commissioner's
report. If the affairs of the association or holding company
are not being conducted in accordance with this Act, the
Secretary Commissioner shall require the directors, officers
or employees to take any necessary corrective action. If the
necessary corrective action is not made, the Secretary
Commissioner may issue a formal order to the directors of the
association or holding company delivered either personally or
by registered or certified mail, specifying a date which may be
immediate or may be at a later date for the performance by the
association or holding company of the corrective action. Such
order or any part thereof shall be subject to Sections 7-24
through 7-27 of this Act. If the formal order of the Secretary
Commissioner in whole or in part contains a finding that the
business of the association or holding company is being
conducted in a fraudulent, illegal or unsafe manner, or that
the violation thereof or the continuance by the association or
holding company of the practice to be corrected could cause
insolvency or substantial dissipation of assets or earnings or
the impairment of its capital, such order or part thereof shall
be complied with promptly on and after the effective date
thereof until modified or withdrawn by the Secretary
Commissioner, the Board, or modified or terminated by a circuit
court. The Secretary Commissioner may apply to the circuit
court of the county in which the association or holding company
is located for enforcement of any such order requiring prompt
compliance. If no hearing has been requested within the time
specified by this Act, the Secretary Commissioner may, at any
time within 90 days after the effective date of the order,
institute suit in the Circuit Court of Sangamon County or the
circuit court of the county in which the association or holding
company is located to compel the directors, officers or
employees to make the required corrective action. Such court
shall, after due process of law, adjudicate the question and
enter the proper order or orders and enforce them. In the
interests of the members of the association or holding company,
the Commissioner may prepare a statement of the condition of
the association or holding company and may mail the statement
to the members or may require a single publication thereof.
(Source: P.A. 96-1365, eff. 7-28-10.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/7-7)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3307-7)
    Sec. 7-7. Reports to Secretary Commissioner and members;
penalty.
    (a) Every association operating under this Act shall file
with the Secretary Commissioner within 90 days following the
close of each fiscal year of such association a statement
showing its financial condition at the close of the fiscal year
and its operations for the year then ended. For good cause
shown in writing directed to the Secretary Commissioner within
the 90 day period, the Secretary Commissioner may authorize up
to 60 additional days for filing of the statement of financial
condition. Each such statement shall be on forms prescribed by
the Secretary Commissioner and in conformity with generally
accepted accounting principles or regulatory accounting
principles permitted, recognized or authorized by the Office of
Thrift Supervision, or its successor, for a federal association
and subject to the rules and regulations of the Secretary
Commissioner and in accord with the provisions of this Act.
Each such statement shall contain such information and be in
such form as prescribed by the Secretary Commissioner and shall
be verified by the secretary of the association and certified
by a licensed public accountant appointed by the board of
directors or by 2 officers of the association, if a licensed
public accountant has been appointed to audit the books and
records of the association as provided in the preceding Section
of this Act. Every association including its holding company
and subsidiaries shall also file such other reports as the
Secretary Commissioner may require from time to time.
    Any association which, after notice from the Secretary
Commissioner sent by certified or registered mail, wilfully
fails to submit within the time prescribed the annual financial
report required by this Section is subject to a civil penalty
of not more than $500 for each such failure. Any association
which, after notice from the Secretary Commissioner sent by
certified or registered mail, wilfully fails to submit within
the time prescribed any other report required by this Section
is subject to a civil penalty of not more than $100 for each
such failure (which penalties shall be cumulative to any other
remedies). For the purposes of this Section, the date on which
any report required by this Section is postmarked is the date
of filing of any such report. The knowing or intentional filing
of any such report which is false in any material respect
constitutes a felony, and any person convicted thereof shall be
punished by a fine of not more than $10,000, or imprisonment in
the penitentiary for one to 5 years, or both.
    (b) An association shall file with the Secretary
Commissioner a report of change of ownership of permanent
reserve shares when such change of ownership results in any
person as defined by this Act holding 10% or more, through any
one transaction or related series of transactions, of the
outstanding permanent reserves shares of the association. Such
report shall include owners who hold as beneficiaries or
through nominees as well as in their own names. The report
shall be made within 5 business days after knowledge of such
change has been obtained by the officer authorized or required
to make reports to the Secretary Commissioner. The Secretary
Commissioner also may require any such person owning 10% or
more of permanent reserve shares to report the beneficiary or
beneficiaries for whom he is holding title.
    Whenever there is a change in the managing officer of an
association or a change amounting to a majority of the
directors of an association elected at a regular or special
meeting of the members, such change shall likewise be reported
within 5 business days to the Secretary Commissioner.
    The willful failure by any person required to report or
disclose change of ownership or control as defined in this
Section constitutes a Class 4 felony.
    (c) Within 60 days after the date of filing the Statement
of Financial Condition with the Secretary Commissioner, the
association shall mail to each member or make available at each
of its offices the annual statement of condition or a condensed
form thereof approved by the Secretary Commissioner, or shall
publish the same at least once, and shall also furnish upon the
written or personal request of any member a copy of the
complete annual statement of condition. The annual statement of
condition, or any condensed form thereof, made available to
members by publication, mailing, or at the association's
offices shall include a statement setting forth the
association's assets, liabilities, regulatory capital and
deposits. In addition, the statement shall include a statement
of the association's goals and intentions in regard to
investment of the association's funds in order to reasonably
inform the member as to the security of his interest.
Notification of the availability of the complete annual
statement shall be prominently and conspicuously posted in
areas of public access at each of the association's branches or
offices.
    (d) Any change of control or ownership of 25% or more of
the permanent reserve shares or stock of (a) any association
operating under this Act, or (b) of the shares or stock of a
subsidiary of the parent or a subsidiary of any association
operating under this Act, must be submitted to the Secretary
Commissioner for review and approval on forms, conditions and
terms to be specified by the Secretary Commissioner. The
Secretary Commissioner may accept in satisfaction of this
requirement, submissions required under federal statutes and
regulations for changes of control. Any doubt as to whether a
change of ownership or other change in the outstanding voting
stock of any association is sufficient to result in a change of
ownership or control, shall be resolved in favor of reporting
the facts to the Secretary Commissioner. Compliance with this
provision shall not relieve an association, its parent or
affiliate from complying with other applicable State or federal
statutes or regulations. The Secretary Commissioner may
disapprove any proposed acquisition if:
        (1) The proposed acquisition of control would result in
    a monopoly or would be in furtherance of any combination or
    conspiracy to monopolize or to attempt to monopolize the
    savings and loan business in any part of Illinois;
        (2) The effect of the proposed acquisition of control
    in any section of the State may be substantially to lessen
    competition or to tend to create a monopoly or the proposed
    acquisition of control would in any other manner be in
    restraint of trade, and the anticompetitive effects of the
    proposed acquisition of control are not clearly outweighed
    in the public interest by the probable effect of the
    transaction in meeting the convenience and needs of the
    community to be served;
        (3) The financial condition or history of any acquiring
    person is such as might jeopardize the financial stability
    of the institution or prejudice the interests of the
    depositors of the institution;
        (4) The competence, experience, or integrity of any
    acquiring person or any of the proposed management
    personnel indicates that it would not be in the interest of
    the depositors of the institution or in the interest of the
    public to permit such person to control the institution; or
        (5) Any acquiring person neglects, fails or refuses to
    furnish the Secretary Commissioner all the information
    required by the Secretary Commissioner.
(Source: P.A. 93-271, eff. 7-22-03.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/7-15)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3307-15)
    Sec. 7-15. Notice of custody; action to enjoin. Immediately
upon taking custody of an association or trust, the Secretary
Commissioner shall mail a written notice thereof to the
president or secretary of the association and to not less than
2 directors of such association or to 2 or more of the trustees
of any trust or to 2 or more of the liquidators of an
association in liquidation. If the contention is made that the
Secretary Commissioner has no legal grounds for taking custody
of the association or trust, the directors or officers of the
association or the trustees or liquidators thereof, as the case
may be, at any time within 10 days after the mailing of such
notice, or within such further periods of time as the Secretary
Commissioner may extend, but not to exceed an additional 60
days, may file a complaint in the Circuit Court of Sangamon
County, Illinois, or in the Circuit Court of the county in
which the association is located, to enjoin further custody.
The court thereupon shall cite the Secretary Commissioner to
show cause why further custody should not be enjoined. If upon
a hearing thereon, the court finds that such grounds did not or
do not then exist, it may enter an appropriate order in
accordance with the findings of fact or an order enjoining the
Secretary Commissioner or any appointees acting under his
direction from further custody.
(Source: P.A. 84-543.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/7-19.1)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3307-19.1)
    Sec. 7-19.1. Savings and Residential Finance Regulatory
Fund.
    (a) Until the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
97th General Assembly, the The aggregate of all moneys fees
collected by the Secretary under this Act shall be paid
promptly after receipt of the same, accompanied by a detailed
statement thereof, into the State treasury and shall be set
apart in the Savings and Residential Finance Regulatory Fund, a
special fund hereby created in the State treasury. The amounts
deposited into the Fund shall be used for the ordinary and
contingent expenses of the Department of Financial and
Professional Regulation and the Division of Banking, or their
successors, in administering and enforcing the Illinois
Savings and Loan Act of 1985, the Savings Bank Act, and the
Residential Mortgage License Act of 1987 and other laws, rules,
and regulations as may apply to the administration and
enforcement of the foregoing laws, rules, and regulations as
amended from time to time. Nothing in this Act shall prevent
continuing the practice of paying expenses involving salaries,
retirement, social security, and State-paid insurance of State
officers by appropriation from the General Revenue Fund.
    (b) (Blank). Except as otherwise provided in subsection
(b-5), moneys in the Savings and Residential Finance Regulatory
Fund may not be appropriated, assigned, or transferred to
another State fund. The moneys in the Fund shall be for the
sole benefit of the institutions assessed.
    (b-5) Moneys in the Savings and Residential Finance
Regulatory Fund may be transferred to the Professions Indirect
Cost Fund, as authorized under Section 2105-300 of the
Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil
Administrative Code of Illinois.
    (b-10) Notwithstanding provisions in the State Finance
Act, as now or hereafter amended, or any other law to the
contrary, the sum of $27,481,638 shall be transferred from the
Savings and Residential Finance Regulatory Fund to the
Financial Institutions Settlement of 2008 Fund on the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly, or as
soon thereafter as practical.
    Notwithstanding provisions in the State Finance Act, as now
or hereafter amended, or any other law to the contrary, the
Governor may, during any fiscal year through January 10, 2011,
from time to time direct the State Treasurer and Comptroller to
transfer a specified sum not exceeding 10% of the revenues to
be deposited into the Savings and Residential Finance
Regulatory Fund during that fiscal year from that Fund to the
General Revenue Fund in order to help defray the State's
operating costs for the fiscal year. Notwithstanding
provisions in the State Finance Act, as now or hereafter
amended, or any other law to the contrary, the total sum
transferred during any fiscal year through January 10, 2011,
from the Savings and Residential Finance Regulatory Fund to the
General Revenue Fund pursuant to this provision shall not
exceed during any fiscal year 10% of the revenues to be
deposited into the Savings and Residential Finance Regulatory
Fund during that fiscal year. The State Treasurer and
Comptroller shall transfer the amounts designated under this
Section as soon as may be practicable after receiving the
direction to transfer from the Governor.
    (c) All earnings received from investments of funds in the
Savings and Residential Finance Regulatory Fund shall be
deposited into the Savings and Residential Finance Regulatory
Fund and may be used for the same purposes as fees deposited
into that Fund.
    (d) When the balance in the Savings and Residential Finance
Regulatory Fund at the end of a fiscal year apportioned to the
fees collected under the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985
and the Savings Bank Act exceeds 25% of the total actual
administrative and operational expenses incurred by the State
for that fiscal year in administering and enforcing the
Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985 and the Savings Bank Act
and such other laws, rules, and regulations as may apply to the
administration and enforcement of the foregoing laws, rules,
and regulations, the excess shall be credited to the
appropriate institutions and entities and applied against
their regulatory fees for the subsequent fiscal year. The
amount credited to each institution or entity shall be in the
same proportion that the regulatory fees paid by the
institution or entity for the fiscal year in which the excess
is produced bear to the aggregate amount of all fees collected
by the Secretary under the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of
1985 and the Savings Bank Act for the same fiscal year. For the
purpose of this Section, "fiscal year" means the period
beginning July 1 of any year and ending June 30 of the next
calendar year.
(Source: P.A. 94-91, eff. 7-1-05; 95-1047, eff. 4-6-09.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/7-19.2 new)
    Sec. 7-19.2. Savings Institutions Regulatory Fund.
    (a) On or after the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 97th General Assembly, the aggregate of all moneys
collected by the Secretary under this Act shall be paid
promptly after receipt of the same, accompanied by a detailed
statement thereof, into the State treasury and shall be set
apart in the Savings Institutions Regulatory Fund, a special
fund created in the State treasury. The amounts deposited into
the Fund shall be used for the ordinary and contingent expenses
of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and
the Division of Banking, or their successors, in administering
and enforcing the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985, the
Savings Bank Act, and other laws, rules, and regulations as may
apply to the administration and enforcement of the foregoing
laws, rules, and regulations, as amended from time to time.
Nothing in this Act shall prevent continuing the practice of
paying expenses involving salaries, retirement, social
security, and State-paid insurance of State officers by
appropriation from the General Revenue Fund.
    (b) Moneys in the Savings Institution Regulatory Fund may
be transferred to the Professions Indirect Cost Fund, as
authorized under Section 2105-300 of the Department of
Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of
Illinois.
    (c) All earnings received from investments of funds in the
Savings Institutions Regulatory Fund shall be deposited into
that Fund and may be used for the same purposes as fees
deposited into that Fund.
    (d) When the balance in the Savings Institutions Regulatory
Fund at the end of a fiscal year exceeds 25% of the total
actual administrative and operational expenses incurred by the
State for that fiscal year in administering and enforcing the
Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985 and the Savings Bank Act
and such other laws, rules, and regulations as may apply to the
administration and enforcement of the foregoing laws, rules,
and regulations, the excess shall be credited to the
appropriate institutions and entities and applied against
their regulatory fees for the subsequent fiscal year. The
amount credited to each institution or entity shall be in the
same proportion that the regulatory fees paid by the
institution or entity for the fiscal year in which the excess
is produced bear to the aggregate amount of all fees collected
by the Secretary under the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of
1985 and the Savings Bank Act for the same fiscal year. For the
purpose of this Section, "fiscal year" means the period
beginning July 1 of any year and ending June 30 of the next
calendar year.
    (e) Moneys in the Savings and Residential Finance
Regulatory Fund apportioned to the moneys collected under the
Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985 and the Savings Bank Act
shall be transferred to the Savings Institutions Regulatory
Fund upon creation of the Savings Institutions Regulatory Fund.
Any amount used or borrowed from the moneys apportioned to the
moneys collected under the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of
1985 and the Savings Bank Act that would have been required to
be returned to that apportionment shall be instead paid into
the Savings Institutions Regulatory Fund in the same manner.
 
    (205 ILCS 105/7-20)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3307-20)
    Sec. 7-20. Board of Savings Institutions; appointment. The
Savings and Loan Board is hereby redesignated the Board of
Savings Institutions. The Board shall be composed of the
Director of Banking, who shall be its chairman and have power
to vote, and 7 additional persons appointed by the Governor.
Four of the 7 persons appointed by the Governor shall represent
the public interest. Three of the 7 additional persons
appointed by the Governor shall have been engaged actively in
savings and loan or savings bank management in this State for
at least 5 years immediately prior to appointment. Each member
of the Board appointed by the Governor shall be reimbursed for
ordinary and necessary expenses incurred in attending the
meetings of the Board. The members of the Board serving
immediately before the effective date of this amendatory Act of
1996 shall continue to serve for the balance of their
respective terms. Members shall be appointed for 4-year terms
to expire on the third Monday in January. Except as otherwise
provided in this Section, members of the Board shall serve
until their respective successors are appointed and qualified.
A member who tenders a written resignation shall serve only
until the resignation is accepted by the Chairman. A member who
fails to attend 3 consecutive Board meetings without an excused
absence shall no longer serve as a member. The Governor shall
fill any vacancy by the appointment of a member for the
unexpired term in the same manner as in the making of original
appointments.
(Source: P.A. 96-1365, eff. 7-28-10.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/7-21)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3307-21)
    Sec. 7-21. Board of Savings Institutions; organization and
meetings. The Board shall elect a chairman, vice-chairman and
secretary of the Board; shall adopt regulations for the holding
and conducting of meetings and for holding hearings concerning
all matters within its powers; and shall keep a record of all
meetings and transactions and make such other provisions for
the daily conduct of its business as it deems necessary. A
majority of the members of the Board, excluding those members
who are no longer serving as members as provided in Section
7-20, shall constitute a quorum. The act of the majority of the
members of the Board present at a meeting at which a quorum is
present shall be the act of the Board. Regular meetings shall
be held as provided in the regulations, and special meetings
may be called by the Chairman or upon the request of any 3
members of the Board or the Secretary Commissioner. The Board
shall maintain at the office of the Secretary Commissioner
permanent records of its meetings, hearings and decisions. The
Secretary Commissioner shall provide adequate quarters and
personnel for use by the Board.
(Source: P.A. 89-508, eff. 7-3-96.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/7-23)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3307-23)
    Sec. 7-23. Proceedings on objections to Secretary's
Commissioner's action. Except as provided in Article 10 and as
otherwise specifically provided by this Act, any Any person
aggrieved by any decision, order, or action of the Secretary
Commissioner, except one under paragraph (b) of Section 1-9,
Section 2-3, paragraph (j) of Section 3-4, or Section 7-9 of
this Act, or under Section 1006(b), Section 3005, or Section
9012 of the Savings Bank Act, or involving a change of location
of an office or the establishment of an additional office under
this the Savings Bank Act, may receive a hearing as provided in
Sections 7-24 through 7-27 of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 93-271, eff. 7-22-03.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/7-24)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3307-24)
    Sec. 7-24. The Secretary Board shall upon the verified
complaint in writing of any aggrieved person setting forth
facts which if proved would constitute grounds for reversal or
change of any decision, order or action of the Secretary
Commissioner, except as provided in Section 7-23 of this Act,
grant a hearing thereon. If the aggrieved person party desires
such a hearing, he or she shall, within 10 days of receipt of
notice of such decision, order or action, file written notice
with the Secretary Board of intent to demand a hearing and
shall, within 30 days of receipt of notice of such decision,
order or action, file his or her verified complaint in writing.
The date of such hearing may not be earlier than 15 days nor
later than 30 days after the date of receipt of verified
complaint in writing. The Secretary Board shall, at least 10
days prior to the date set for the hearing, notify in writing
the person aggrieved adversely affected by such decision, order
or action, referred to in this Section as the respondent, and
all other parties to the action, that a hearing will be held on
the date designated and shall afford the respondent and all
other parties to the action an opportunity to be heard in
person or by counsel in reference thereto. Such written notice
may be served by delivery of the same personally to the
respondent and all other parties to the action, or by mailing
the notice by registered or certified mail to the place of
business last theretofore specified by the respondent and all
other parties to the action in the last notification to the
Secretary Board. At the time and place fixed in the notice, the
Secretary Board or its authorized agent, referred to in this
Section as the hearing officer, shall proceed to hear the
charges, and both the respondent and all other parties to the
action and the complainant shall be accorded ample opportunity
to present in person or by counsel such statements, testimony,
evidence and argument as may be pertinent to the issues. The
hearing officer may continue such hearing from time to time.
    The hearing officer may subpoena any person in this State
and may take testimony either orally or by deposition or by
exhibit, with the same fees and mileage and in the same manner
as prescribed by law in judicial proceedings in civil cases in
circuit courts of this State.
    The hearing officer may administer oaths to witnesses at
any hearing which the hearing officer is authorized by law to
conduct.
    After the hearing, the Secretary Board shall make a
determination approving, modifying or disapproving the
decision, order or action of the Secretary Commissioner as his
or her its final administrative decision.
(Source: P.A. 84-543.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/7-25)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3307-25)
    Sec. 7-25. Record of Board proceedings; expenses. The
Secretary Board, at his or her its expense, unless otherwise
provided in this Act or the Savings Bank Act, shall provide a
stenographer to take down the testimony and preserve a record
of all proceedings at the hearing. The notice of hearing,
complaint and all other documents in the nature of pleadings
and written motions filed in the proceedings, the transcript of
testimony, the report of the hearing officer and orders of the
Secretary Board shall be the record of such proceedings. The
Secretary Board shall furnish a transcript of such record to
any person interested in such hearing upon payment of the
actual cost thereof.
    A copy of the hearing officer's report and the Secretary's
Board's orders shall be served upon the respondent and all
other parties to the action by the Secretary Board, either
personally or by registered or certified mail as provided in
this Act for the service of the notice of hearing. All expenses
incurred by the Secretary Board, including the compensation of
the hearing officer, shall be paid by the parties to the
hearing and shall be divided among them in equal shares.
(Source: P.A. 89-508, eff. 7-3-96.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/7-26)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3307-26)
    Sec. 7-26. Subpoena; deposition. All subpoenas issued
under the laws of this State pertaining to savings and loan
associations or savings banks may be served by any person who
is not a minor. The fees of witnesses for attendance and travel
shall be the same as fees of witnesses before the circuit
courts of this State, such fees to be paid at the time the
witness is excused from further attendance, when the witness is
subpoenaed at the instance of the Board or the Secretary
Commissioner or any officer or any employee designated by him,
her or it for the purpose of conducting any such investigation,
inquiry or hearing; and the disbursements made in the payment
of such fees shall be audited and paid in the same manner as
are other expenses of the Secretary Board or Commissioner.
Whenever a subpoena is issued at the instance of a complainant,
respondent or other party to any proceeding, the Secretary
Board may require that the cost of service thereof and the fee
of the same shall be borne by the party at whose instance the
witness is summoned, and the Secretary Board or Commissioner
shall have power, in his, her or its discretion, to require a
deposit to cover the cost of such service and witness fees and
the payment of legal witness fees and mileage to the witness
when served with subpoena. A subpoena issued under this Section
shall be served in the same manner as a subpoena issued out of
a court.
    Any person who shall be served with a subpoena to appear
and testify, or to produce books, papers, accounts or
documents, either in person or by deposition, in the manner
provided in this Section, issued by the Secretary Board or
Commissioner or by any officer, or any employee designated by
him, her or it to conduct any such investigation, inquiry or
hearing, in the course of an investigation, inquiry or hearing
conducted under any of the provisions of the laws of this State
pertaining to savings and loan associations or savings banks,
and who shall refuse or neglect to appear or to testify, or to
produce books, papers, accounts and documents relative to such
investigation, inquiry or hearing as commanded in such
subpoena, shall be guilty of a petty offense.
    Any circuit court of this State, upon application of the
Secretary Board or Commissioner, or an officer, or an employee
designated by him, her or it for the purpose of conducting any
such investigation, inquiry or hearing, may, in its discretion,
compel the attendance of witnesses, the production of books,
papers, accounts and documents and the giving of testimony
before the Secretary Board or Commissioner, or before any
officer thereof, or any employee designated by him, her or it
for the purpose of conducting any such investigation, inquiry
or hearing, in person or by deposition, in the manner provided
in this Section, by an attachment for contempt or otherwise, in
the same manner as production of evidence may be compelled
before such court.
    The Secretary Board or Commissioner or any officer, or any
employee designated by him, her or it for the purpose of
conducting any investigation, inquiry or hearing, or any party
may, in any investigation, inquiry or hearing, cause the
deposition of witnesses residing within or without the State to
be taken in the manner prescribed by law for taking like
depositions in civil cases in courts of this State, and to that
end may compel the attendance of witnesses and the production
of papers, books, accounts and documents.
(Source: P.A. 89-508, eff. 7-3-96.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/7-27)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3307-27)
    Sec. 7-27. Except as provided in Article 10, any Any person
affected by a final administrative decision of the Secretary
Commissioner under paragraph (b) of Section 1-9, Section 2-3 or
paragraph (j) of Section 3-4 of this Act or under Section
1006(b) or 3005 of the Savings Bank Act, or involving a change
of location of an office or the establishment of an additional
office under the Savings Bank Act, may have the decision
reviewed only under and in accordance with the Administrative
Review Law, if such person files, within 10 days of receipt of
service of a copy of the final decision sought to be reviewed,
a written notice with the Commissioner of intent to seek review
under the Administrative Review Law.
    Any person affected by a final administrative decision of
the Board under Sections 7-21 through 7-26 of this Act may have
the decision reviewed only under and in accordance with the
Administrative Review Law, if the person files with the Board,
within 10 days of receipt of service of a copy of the final
decision sought to be reviewed, a written notice of intent to
seek review under the Administrative Review Law.
    The provisions of the Administrative Review Law, and all
amendments and modifications thereof, and the rules adopted
pursuant thereto, shall apply to and govern all proceedings for
the judicial review of final administrative decisions of the
Secretary Commissioner or the Board under this Act. The term
"administrative decision" is defined as in Section 3-101 of the
Code of Civil Procedure.
    Appeals from all final orders and judgments entered by a
court in review of any final administrative decision of the
Secretary Board under this Act may be taken as in other civil
cases.
(Source: P.A. 89-508, eff. 7-3-96.)
 
    (205 ILCS 105/8-4)  (from Ch. 17, par. 3308-4)
    Sec. 8-4. Election of new directors; Report and
supervision.
    (a) Upon the adoption of the plan of reorganization, the
offices of all directors and officers of the association shall
be vacant, and the members shall proceed to elect directors to
fill the vacancies. If the plan provides for the segregation of
assets under a trust agreement, the members also shall elect
(with cumulative voting permitted as in elections of directors)
3 or more trustees to manage such assets.
    (b) A report of proceedings at the meetings of the members,
certified by the president or a vice president and attested by
the secretary of the association, setting forth the notice
given and time of mailing thereof, the vote on the plan of
reorganization and the total number of votes which all members
of the association were entitled to cast thereon, shall be
filed in duplicate with the Secretary Commissioner, together
with the plan of reorganization. The Secretary Commissioner
thereupon shall issue to the association, and to the trustees
if assets have been segregated as a part of the plan, a
certificate of reorganization, and a certificate of amendment
of the articles of incorporation if appropriate.
    (c) The reorganization shall become effective upon the
recording of the certificate of reorganization and the
certificate of amendment of articles of incorporation, if any,
in the manner required by this Act for the recording of
articles of incorporation.
(Source: P.A. 84-543.)
 
    Section 20. The Savings Bank Act is amended by changing
Sections 1007.50, 1008, 2007, 3001, 3002, 4012, 6007, 6009,
8002, 8003, 8004, 8005, 8006, 8007, 8008, 8009, 8010, 8013,
8014, 8015, 8016, 9002, 9004, 9008, 9011, 9015, 9017, and 9018
and by adding Sections 8002.1, 8018, 9018.1, 9018.2, 9018.3,
and 9018.4 as follows:
 
    (205 ILCS 205/1007.50)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7301-7.50)
    Sec. 1007.50. "Depository institution", as used in this
Act, shall mean an insured depository institution as defined by
Section 3(c)(2) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C.
1813), as amended, or an insured credit union as defined by
Section 101(7) of the Federal Credit Union Act (12 U.S.C.
1752(7)), as amended a commercial bank, a savings bank, a
savings and loan association, a trust company, a homestead
association, a building and loan association, a cooperative
bank, an industrial bank, or a credit union, whether chartered
by a state or territory or under the laws of the United States.
(Source: P.A. 86-1213.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/1008)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7301-8)
    Sec. 1008. General corporate powers.
    (a) A savings bank operating under this Act shall be a body
corporate and politic and shall have all of the powers
conferred by this Act including, but not limited to, the
following powers:
        (1) To sue and be sued, complain, and defend in its
    corporate name and to have a common seal, which it may
    alter or renew at pleasure.
        (2) To obtain and maintain insurance by a deposit
    insurance corporation as defined in this Act.
        (3) To act as a fiscal agent for the United States, the
    State of Illinois or any department, branch, arm, or agency
    of the State or any unit of local government or school
    district in the State, when duly designated for that
    purpose, and as agent to perform reasonable functions as
    may be required of it.
        (4) To become a member of or deal with any corporation
    or agency of the United States or the State of Illinois, to
    the extent that the agency assists in furthering or
    facilitating its purposes or powers and to that end to
    purchase stock or securities thereof or deposit money
    therewith, and to comply with any other conditions of
    membership or credit.
        (5) To make donations in reasonable amounts for the
    public welfare or for charitable, scientific, religious,
    or educational purposes.
        (6) To adopt and operate reasonable insurance, bonus,
    profit sharing, and retirement plans for officers and
    employees and for directors including, but not limited to,
    advisory, honorary, and emeritus directors, who are not
    officers or employees.
        (7) To reject any application for membership; to retire
    deposit accounts by enforced retirement as provided in this
    Act and the bylaws; and to limit the issuance of, or
    payments on, deposit accounts, subject, however, to
    contractual obligations.
        (8) To purchase stock or membership interests in
    service corporations and to invest in any form of
    indebtedness of any service corporation as defined in this
    Act, subject to regulations of the Secretary Commissioner.
        (9) To purchase stock of a corporation whose principal
    purpose is to operate a safe deposit company or escrow
    service company.
        (10) To exercise all the powers necessary to qualify as
    a trustee or custodian under federal or State law, provided
    that the authority to accept and execute trusts is subject
    to the provisions of the Corporate Fiduciary Act and to the
    supervision of those activities by the Secretary
    Commissioner.
        (11) (Blank).
        (12) To establish, maintain, and operate terminals as
    authorized by the Electronic Fund Transfer Act.
        (13) To pledge its assets:
            (A) to enable it to act as agent for the sale of
        obligations of the United States;
            (B) to secure deposits;
            (C) to secure deposits of money whenever required
        by the National Bankruptcy Act;
            (D) (blank); and
            (E) to secure trust funds commingled with the
        savings bank's funds, whether deposited by the savings
        bank or an affiliate of the savings bank, as required
        under Section 2-8 of the Corporate Fiduciary Act.
        (14) To accept for payment at a future date not to
    exceed one year from the date of acceptance, drafts drawn
    upon it by its customers; and to issue, advise, or confirm
    letters of credit authorizing holders thereof to draw
    drafts upon it or its correspondents.
        (15) Subject to the regulations of the Secretary
    Commissioner, to own and lease personal property acquired
    by the savings bank at the request of a prospective lessee
    and, upon the agreement of that person, to lease the
    personal property.
        (16) To establish temporary service booths at any
    International Fair in this State that is approved by the
    United States Department of Commerce for the duration of
    the international fair for the purpose of providing a
    convenient place for foreign trade customers to exchange
    their home countries' currency into United States currency
    or the converse. To provide temporary periodic service to
    persons residing in a bona fide nursing home, senior
    citizens' retirement home, or long-term care facility.
    These powers shall not be construed as establishing a new
    place or change of location for the savings bank providing
    the service booth.
        (17) To indemnify its officers, directors, employees,
    and agents, as authorized for corporations under Section
    8.75 of the Business Corporations Act of 1983.
        (18) To provide data processing services to others on a
    for-profit basis.
        (19) To utilize any electronic technology to provide
    customers with home banking services.
        (20) Subject to the regulations of the Secretary
    Commissioner, to enter into an agreement to act as a
    surety.
        (21) Subject to the regulations of the Secretary
    Commissioner, to issue credit cards, extend credit
    therewith, and otherwise engage in or participate in credit
    card operations.
        (22) To purchase for its own account shares of stock of
    a bankers' bank, described in Section 13(b)(1) of the
    Illinois Banking Act, on the same terms and conditions as a
    bank may purchase such shares. In no event shall the total
    amount of such stock held by a savings bank in such
    bankers' bank exceed 10% of its capital and surplus
    (including undivided profits) and in no event shall a
    savings bank acquire more than 5% of any class of voting
    securities of such bankers' bank.
        (23) With respect to affiliate facilities:
            (A) to conduct at affiliate facilities any of the
        following transactions for and on behalf of any
        affiliated depository institution, if so authorized by
        the affiliate or affiliates: receiving deposits;
        renewing deposits; cashing and issuing checks, drafts,
        money orders, travelers checks, or similar
        instruments; changing money; receiving payments on
        existing indebtedness; and conducting ministerial
        functions with respect to loan applications, servicing
        loans, and providing loan account information; and
            (B) to authorize an affiliated depository
        institution to conduct for and on behalf of it, any of
        the transactions listed in this subsection at one or
        more affiliate facilities.
        A savings bank intending to conduct or to authorize an
    affiliated depository institution to conduct at an
    affiliate facility any of the transactions specified in
    this subsection shall give written notice to the Secretary
    Commissioner at least 30 days before any such transaction
    is conducted at an affiliate facility. All conduct under
    this subsection shall be on terms consistent with safe and
    sound banking practices and applicable law.
        (24) Subject to Article XLIV of the Illinois Insurance
    Code, to act as the agent for any fire, life, or other
    insurance company authorized by the State of Illinois, by
    soliciting and selling insurance and collecting premiums
    on policies issued by such company; and may receive for
    services so rendered such fees or commissions as may be
    agreed upon between the said savings bank and the insurance
    company for which it may act as agent; provided, however,
    that no such savings bank shall in any case assume or
    guarantee the payment of any premium on insurance policies
    issued through its agency by its principal; and provided
    further, that the savings bank shall not guarantee the
    truth of any statement made by an assured in filing his
    application for insurance.
        (25) To become a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank
    and to have the powers granted to a savings association
    organized under the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985
    or the laws of the United States, subject to regulations of
    the Secretary Commissioner.
        (26) To offer any product or service that is at the
    time authorized or permitted to a bank by applicable law,
    but subject always to the same limitations and restrictions
    that are applicable to the bank for the product or service
    by such applicable law and subject to the applicable
    provisions of the Financial Institutions Insurance Sales
    Law and rules of the Secretary Commissioner.
    (b) If this Act or the regulations adopted under this Act
fail to provide specific guidance in matters of corporate
governance, the provisions of the Business Corporation Act of
1983 may be used, or if the savings bank is a limited liability
company, the provisions of the Limited Liability Company shall
be used.
    (c) A savings bank may be organized as a limited liability
company, may convert to a limited liability company, or may
merge with and into a limited liability company, under the
applicable laws of this State and of the United States,
including any rules promulgated thereunder. A savings bank
organized as a limited liability company shall be subject to
the provisions of the Limited Liability Company Act in addition
to this Act, provided that if a provision of the Limited
Liability Company Act conflicts with a provision of this Act or
with any rule of the Secretary Commissioner, the provision of
this Act or the rule of the Secretary Commissioner shall apply.
    Any filing required to be made under the Limited Liability
Company Act shall be made exclusively with the Secretary
Commissioner, and the Secretary Commissioner shall possess the
exclusive authority to regulate the savings bank as provided in
this Act.
    Any organization as, conversion to, and merger with or into
a limited liability company shall be subject to the prior
approval of the Secretary Commissioner.
    A savings bank that is a limited liability company shall be
subject to all of the provisions of this Act in the same manner
as a savings bank that is organized in stock form.
    The Secretary Commissioner may promulgate rules to ensure
that a savings bank that is a limited liability company (i) is
operating in a safe and sound manner and (ii) is subject to the
Secretary's Commissioner's authority in the same manner as a
savings bank that is organized in stock form.
(Source: P.A. 92-483, eff. 8-23-01; 93-561, eff. 1-1-04.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/2007)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7302-7)
    Sec. 2007. (a) A savings bank, including a mutual savings
bank operating under this Act, may reorganize so as to become a
holding company by:
        (1) chartering one or more subsidiary savings banks,
    the ownership of which shall be evidenced by stock shares,
    to be owned by the chartering parent savings bank; and
        (2) either of the following:
            (i) transferring the substantial portion of its
        assets and all of its insured deposits and part or all
        of its other liabilities to one or more subsidiary
        savings banks; or
            (ii) reorganizing in any other manner as approved
        by the Secretary Commissioner.
    (b) In order to effect reorganization under subsection (a),
the board of directors of the original savings bank must
approve a plan providing for the reorganization that shall be
submitted for approval by a majority of the voting members of
the savings bank. Approval must occur in accordance with the
savings bank's articles of incorporation and bylaws at a
meeting called by the board of directors. The Secretary may
Commissioner shall promulgate rules to regulate the formation
of and the ongoing business of the subsidiaries and the holding
company, including the rights of members, levels of investment
in holding company subsidiaries, and stock sales.
(Source: P.A. 88-425.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/3001)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7303-1)
    Sec. 3001. Application for permit to organize.
    (a) Not fewer than 5 nor more than 20 persons may organize
a savings bank under this Act.
    (b) The Secretary Commissioner shall determine the minimum
required capital which shall be at least the minimum required
to obtain insurance of accounts as required by this Act and
shall include additional amounts as the Secretary Commissioner
may find necessary, based upon duly promulgated regulations.
(Source: P.A. 86-1213.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/3002)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7303-2)
    Sec. 3002. Contents of application for permit to organize.
The application for a permit to organize shall be on forms
required by the Secretary Commissioner, shall include all
information as he deems necessary but must include at least the
following:
        (1) The name, address, social security number, date of
    birth, business address, home address, place of birth, and
    occupation of each organizer.
        (2) The name of the proposed savings bank.
        (3) The address of the headquarters, main business
    office, and branches, if known, of the proposed savings
    bank. Information must include any real estate interests of
    the organizers that may be involved with any of these
    locations.
        (4) The anticipated duration of the proposed savings
    bank, which may be perpetual.
        (5) An audited financial statement of any corporation
    or partnership that is one of the organizers or that shall
    be either a controlling interest in the proposed savings
    bank, a lender to the proposed savings bank, or a lender
    for purposes of acquiring an interest in the proposed
    savings bank to any of the controlling interests. The
    Secretary may Commissioner shall define by regulation the
    terms "controlling interest" and "lender".
        (6) The proposed articles of incorporation and bylaws.
        (7) The number of shares of capital stock; the number
    of shares and classes of preferred stock, if any; the par
    value of each type of stock which may not be less than $1;
    the number of shares to be sold and the per share initial
    offering price of each share.
(Source: P.A. 86-1213.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/4012)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7304-12)
    Sec. 4012. Procedure to dissent.
    (a) If the action giving rise to the right to dissent is to
be approved at a meeting of shareholders, the notice of meeting
shall inform the shareholders of their right to dissent and the
procedure to dissent. Prior to the meeting, the savings bank
shall furnish to the shareholders material information with
respect to the transaction that will enable a shareholder to
objectively vote on the transaction and to determine whether or
not to exercise dissenters' rights. A shareholder may assert
dissenters' rights only if the shareholder delivers to the
savings bank, before the vote is taken, a written demand for
payment for his shares if the proposed action is consummated
and the shareholder does not vote in favor of the proposed
action.
    (b) If the action giving rise to the right to dissent is
not to be approved at a meeting of shareholders, the notice to
shareholders describing the action taken shall inform the
shareholders of their right to dissent and the procedure to
dissent. Prior to, or concurrently with, the notice the savings
bank shall furnish to the shareholders material information
with respect to the transaction that will enable a shareholder
to objectively determine whether or not to exercise dissenters'
rights. A shareholder may assert dissenters' rights only if he
delivers to the savings bank within 30 days from the date of
mailing the notice a written demand for payment for his shares.
    (c) The Secretary may Commissioner shall promulgate rules
to govern the procedure to be used by savings banks and
dissenters in arriving at a value and price for dissenters'
shares, as well as how distribution shall be made. In no case
shall the rules be more restrictive than the provisions
applicable to ordinary corporations under the Business
Corporation Act of 1983.
(Source: P.A. 86-1213.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/6007)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7306-7)
    Sec. 6007. Sale, assignment, and servicing of loans and
contracts.
    (a) Any savings bank may sell any loan or a participating
interest in a loan at any time in the usual and regular course
of business. Loans sold may be sold with or without recourse
except as may otherwise be provided by regulations of the
Secretary Commissioner. The Secretary Commissioner may, by
regulation, adopt limitations upon the sale of loans. The
provisions of this subsection (a) do not apply to the sale of
loans to agencies of the United States, the State of Illinois,
or other government sponsored agencies as may be approved by
the Secretary Commissioner.
    (b) A savings bank may contract to service a loan or a
participating interest in a loan, but a contract therefor shall
conform to any the pertinent regulations prescribed by the
Secretary Commissioner and shall require sufficient
compensation to reimburse the savings bank for all expenses
incurred under the contract.
    (c) A savings bank may sell and assign, with or without
recourse, any master's certificate of sale, defaulted loan, or
defaulted real estate contract to any person eligible to
purchase it for an amount not less than the fair cash market
value thereof.
(Source: P.A. 86-1213.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/6009)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7306-9)
    Sec. 6009. Purchase of real estate for office and rental
purposes.
    (a) A savings bank may acquire and hold real estate in fee
simple or leaseholds on which a building or buildings exist or
are to be erected suitable for the transaction of the savings
bank's business, and from portions of which not required for
the savings bank's own use, revenue may be derived; or may own
all or part of the capital stock, shares, or interest in any
corporation, limited liability company, association, or trust
engaged solely in holding all or part of that real estate.
However, the amount so invested under this Section and item (7)
of Section 6003 may not exceed a savings bank's total capital
unless the Secretary Commissioner, upon a proper showing,
approves a larger amount consistent with the needs of the
savings bank's business and its immediate future expansion.
    (b) Unless prior written approval of the Secretary
Commissioner is obtained, no savings bank may purchase, lease,
or otherwise acquire a site for an office building or interest
in real estate from any officer, director, employee, or
stockholder holding more than 10% of the aggregate capital
stock of the savings bank, or any firm, corporation, entity, or
family in which any officer, director, employee, or stockholder
holding more than 10% of the aggregate capital stock of a
savings bank has any direct or indirect interest.
    (c) An acquisition prohibited by this Section includes the
purchase, lease, or acquisition of property in which any of the
persons described in this Section held any interest for a
period of 10 years preceding the purchase, lease, or
acquisition, but does not include the acquisition of an option
for a site or real estate where the option is assignable and
exercised by the savings bank in its own name and for its own
benefit.
(Source: P.A. 89-320, eff. 1-1-96.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/8002)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7308-2)
    Sec. 8002. Procedure to amend articles.
    (a) The procedure to effect an amendment of articles of
incorporation shall be as follows:
        (1) The board of directors shall adopt a resolution
    setting forth the proposed amendment and direct that it be
    submitted to a vote at an annual or special meeting of the
    members or stockholders.
        (2) The proposed amendment shall be set forth in the
    notice of meeting mailed as prescribed in Section 4003 of
    this Act.
        (3) The proposed amendment shall be adopted upon
    receiving the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes
    entitled to be cast, unless the articles of incorporation
    set forth a requirement that amendments of the articles of
    incorporation shall be adopted by an affirmative vote of
    two-thirds of the total number of votes entitled to be
    cast.
    (b) A report of proceedings, including the notice given,
the time of mailing, the amendment adopted, the vote thereon,
and the total number of votes entitled to be cast, verified by
the president, vice president, or managing officer and attested
to by the secretary of the savings bank Secretary, shall be
filed with the Secretary Commissioner within 5 business days
after the vote.
    (c) Each adopted amendment shall be subject to the same
inquiry as the corresponding provision in the original
articles. If the Secretary Commissioner approves an amendment
he shall issue to the savings bank a certificate setting forth
the amendment and his approval thereof. The amendment shall
become effective upon issuance of the certificate when recorded
in the same manner as the savings bank's articles of
incorporation. The savings bank shall provide the Commissioner
with a copy of the recorded amendment within 5 business days of
the date of recording.
    (d) An amendment of the articles of incorporation approved
by the board of directors, the Secretary, and members as part
of merger, sale of substantially all assets, change in control,
holding company reorganization, or mutual to stock form
conversion need not be approved under this Section.
    (e) No amendment of articles of incorporation shall affect
any existing cause of action either in favor of or against the
savings bank or any pending action in which the savings bank
shall be a party or the existing rights of persons other than
members of the savings bank.
(Source: P.A. 89-74, eff. 6-30-95.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/8002.1 new)
    Sec. 8002.1. Procedure to amend articles of incorporation
for name change.
    (a) Notwithstanding the requirements of Section 8002 of
this Act, a savings bank, after commencing business, may amend
its articles of incorporation solely for purposes of changing
the name of the savings bank, upon satisfactory completion of
the following requirements:
        (1) Submission by the board of directors of a certified
    resolution approving the proposed name change and
    approving a plan for notifying all parties who may be
    affected by the change, including, but not limited to
    members, account holders, borrowers, creditors, and
    parties to whom or with whom commitments of any type are
    pending.
        (2) The new name, as determined by the Secretary, meets
    the requirements for names under this Act or rules
    established by the Secretary.
    On satisfactory completion of these requirements, the
Secretary shall issue an approved amendment to the articles of
incorporation as provided for in subsection (c) of Section 8002
of this Act.
    (b) No amendment of the articles of incorporation to change
the name of a savings bank shall affect any existing cause of
action either in favor of or against the savings bank or any
pending action in which the savings bank shall be a party, nor
shall it affect the existing rights of persons other than
members of the savings bank. No action brought by or against
the savings bank under its former name shall be abated by
reason of the change.
 
    (205 ILCS 205/8003)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7308-3)
    Sec. 8003. Effect upon existing articles and bylaws. Any
adopted or amended articles that contain provisions contrary to
the savings bank's bylaws shall serve to repeal the particular
bylaws without further action by the board. No amendment to a
savings bank's bylaws may take effect until the amendment is
approved by the Commissioner.
(Source: P.A. 89-74, eff. 6-30-95.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/8004)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7308-4)
    Sec. 8004. Merger; adoption of plan.
    (a) Any depository institution may merge into a savings
bank operating under this Act, and a savings bank operating
under this Act may merge into a depository institution. The
board of directors of each merging depository institution, by
resolution adopted by a majority vote of all members of the
board, must approve the plan of merger.
    (b) The plan of merger must include the following:
        (1) The name of each of the merging depository
    institutions, the name of the continuing savings bank or
    resulting depository institution or State or national
    bank, the location of the business office, and the location
    of the branch offices.
        (2) With respect to the resulting savings bank or
    resulting depository institution or State or national
    bank, the amount of capital, surplus, and reserve for
    operating expenses; the classes and the number of shares of
    stock and the par value of each share; the charter and
    bylaws of the resulting depository institution or savings
    bank or resulting State or national bank; and a detailed
    financial Statement showing the assets and liabilities
    after the proposed merger.
        (3) Provisions stating the method, terms, and
    conditions of carrying the merger into effect, including
    the manner of converting the shares of the merging
    depository institutions into the cash, shares of stock, or
    other securities or properties Stated in the merger
    agreement to be received by the stockholders of each
    merging depository institution.
        (4) Provisions governing the manner of disposing of any
    shares of stock of the resulting savings bank or resulting
    depository institution or State or national bank that are
    not taken by the dissenting stockholders of each merging
    depository institution.
        (5) Other provisions that appear necessary or
    desirable or that the Secretary Commissioner may
    reasonably require to enable him to discharge his duties
    with respect to the merger.
    (c) After approval by the board of directors of each
depository institution, the merger agreement shall be
submitted to the Secretary Commissioner for approval, together
with the certified copies of the authorizing resolutions of
each board of directors showing approval by a majority of the
entire board of each merging depository institution. After
receipt of the items specified herein, the Secretary
Commissioner may make or cause to be made an examination of the
affairs of each of the merging depository institutions and
their affiliates and subsidiaries, the expense of which is to
be paid by the merging depository institutions.
    (d) The Secretary Commissioner may then approve or
disapprove the proposed merger agreement. The Secretary
Commissioner shall not approve a merger agreement unless he
finds that:
        (1) The resulting savings bank meets the requirements
    of this Act for the formation of a new savings bank at the
    proposed main office of the resulting savings bank.
        (2) The same conditions exist with respect to the
    resulting savings bank that would be required under this
    Act for the organization of a new savings bank.
        (3) The merger agreement is fair to all persons
    affected.
        (4) The resulting savings bank will be operated in a
    safe and sound manner.
    (e) If the Secretary Commissioner disapproves of the
proposed merger, he shall State his objections in writing and
give the merging depository institutions a Stated period of
time in which to amend the plan of merger to address obviate
the objections.
(Source: P.A. 87-1226; 88-425.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/8005)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7308-5)
    Sec. 8005. Merger; vote of approval. If approved by the
Secretary Commissioner, the plan of merger shall be submitted
to the stockholders of the savings bank or depository
institution for approval. The Secretary Commissioner may
require that the plan of merger be submitted to members of a
mutual savings bank. Each meeting of the members or
stockholders of a savings bank operating under this Act shall
be called and held in accordance with Section 4002. The plan is
approved if it receives the affirmative vote of two-thirds or
more of the total votes entitled to be cast.
(Source: P.A. 86-1213.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/8006)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7308-6)
    Sec. 8006. Merger; Secretary's Commissioner's certificate.
The executed merger agreement together with copies of the
resolutions of the members or stockholders of each merging
depository institution approving it, certified by the
president or vice president managing officer, and attested to
by the secretary of the savings bank, shall be filed with the
Secretary Commissioner. The Secretary Commissioner shall then
issue to the continuing savings bank a certificate of merger,
setting forth the name of each merging depository institution,
the name of the continuing savings bank, and the articles of
incorporation of the continuing savings bank. The merger takes
effect upon the recording of the certificate in the same manner
as the articles of incorporation in each county in which the
business office of any of the merging depository institutions
was located and in the county in which the business office of
the continuing savings bank is located. When duly recorded, the
certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the merger and of
the correctness of the proceedings therefor except against the
State.
(Source: P.A. 87-1226; 88-425.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/8007)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7308-7)
    Sec. 8007. Effect of merger. The continuing savings bank or
resulting depository institution or State or national bank
shall be considered the same business and corporate entity as
each merging depository institution, with all the property,
rights, duties, and obligations of each merging depository
institution, except as otherwise provided by the articles of
incorporation of the continuing savings bank or resulting
depository institution or State or national bank. All
liabilities of each of the merging institutions shall be
liabilities of the continuing savings bank or resulting
depository institution or State or national bank; and all of
the rights, franchises, and interests of each of the merging
depository institutions in and to every kind of property, real,
personal, or mixed shall vest automatically in the continuing
savings bank or resulting depository institution or State or
national bank without any deed or other transfer. Any reference
to a merging depository institution in any writing, whether
executed or effective before or after the merger, shall be
deemed a reference to the continuing savings bank or resulting
depository institution or State or national bank if not
inconsistent with the other provisions of the writing. No
pending action or other judicial proceeding to which any
merging depository institution is a party shall be abated or
dismissed by reason of the merger, but shall be prosecuted to
final judgment in the same manner as if the merger had not
occurred.
(Source: P.A. 87-1226; 88-425.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/8008)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7308-8)
    Sec. 8008. Merger; Secretary's Commissioner's expenses.
The expenses of any examination made by or at the direction of
the Secretary Commissioner in connection with a proposed merger
shall be paid for by the merging savings banks or depository
institutions.
(Source: P.A. 86-1213.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/8009)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7308-9)
    Sec. 8009. Sale of assets. Subject to regulations of the
Secretary Commissioner, a savings bank, in one transaction not
in the usual course of business, may sell all or substantially
all of its assets, with or without its name and goodwill, to
another savings bank or depository institution to any other
financial institution, in consideration of money, capital, or
obligations of the purchasing institution. A savings bank may
sell any office or facility and equipment in conformity with
the regulations of the Secretary Commissioner.
(Source: P.A. 86-1213.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/8010)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7308-10)
    Sec. 8010. Procedure to effect sale of all assets.
    (a) The procedure to effect a sale authorized by Section
Sections 8009 and 8014 of this Act shall be as follows:
        (1) The board of directors shall adopt a resolution
    setting forth the terms of the proposed sale and shall
    submit the plan to the Secretary Commissioner for his
    preliminary approval. Upon receipt of approval by the
    Secretary Commissioner, the plan shall be submitted to a
    vote of the members at a special or annual meeting.
        (2) The terms shall be set forth in the notice of the
    meeting as prescribed in subsection (b) of Section 4003 of
    this Act.
        (3) The proposed sale will be approved by the members
    or stockholders upon receiving in the affirmative
    two-thirds or more of the total number of votes that all
    members or stockholders of the savings bank are entitled to
    cast. A proposal for the voluntary liquidation of the
    savings bank may be submitted to the members or
    stockholders at the same meeting or at any later meeting
    called for that purpose in accordance with Article 4 of
    this Act. A report of proceedings, certified by the
    president or vice president and attested by the secretary
    of the savings bank, setting forth the terms of the
    proposed sale, the notice given and the time of its
    mailing, the vote on the proposal, and the total number of
    votes that all members or stockholders of the savings bank
    are entitled to cast, shall be filed with the Secretary
    Commissioner.
    (b) If the Secretary Commissioner finds that the proposed
sale is fair to all holders of capital, creditors, and other
persons concerned and provision has been made for the
disposition of the remaining assets, if any, of the savings
bank, as provided in this Act for voluntary liquidation, he
shall issue to the savings bank a certificate of authorization
for the sale with a copy of the filed report of proceedings
attached to the certificate.
    (c) When the Secretary's Commissioner's certificate is
issued recorded in the same manner as the savings bank's
articles of incorporation, the savings bank may complete the
sale so authorized; except that the savings bank must also have
the approval of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
    (d) If the sale includes the name of the savings bank, the
purchaser shall have the exclusive right to that name for a
period of 5 years.
(Source: P.A. 86-1213.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/8013)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7308-13)
    Sec. 8013. Emergency merger. With the prior approval of the
Secretary Commissioner, which approval shall state that the
proposed merger is in his opinion necessary for the protection
of the depositors and other creditors, any savings bank that is
an eligible depository institution, as defined in the Illinois
Banking Act, may, by a vote of a majority of its board of
directors and without a vote of its members or stockholders,
merge with another savings bank or depository institution, a
State or federal savings and loan association, or a bank, as
defined in the Illinois Banking Act, with the other savings
bank or depository institution , State or federal savings and
loan association, or bank being the resulting or continuing
savings bank or depository institution , savings and loan
association, or bank.
(Source: P.A. 86-1213.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/8014)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7308-14)
    Sec. 8014. Emergency sale of assets.
    (a) With the approval in writing of the Secretary
Commissioner, which approval shall state that the proposed sale
is, in his opinion, necessary for the protection of the
depositors and other creditors, any savings bank that is an
eligible depository institution, as defined in Section 2 of the
Illinois Banking Act may, by a vote of a majority of its board
of directors and without a vote of its members or stockholders,
sell all or any part of its assets to another savings bank or
depository institution , savings and loan association, bank, as
defined in the Illinois Banking Act, or to the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, or to both a State or federally
chartered savings bank or savings and loan association or a
bank and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, provided
that a savings bank or depository institution assumes , State or
federally chartered savings and loan association or bank
assumes in writing all of the liabilities of the selling
savings bank association and that any sale to a bank shall be
by an eligible depository institution, as defined in the
Illinois Banking Act.
    (b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, a
savings bank may sell to any savings bank or depository
institution , savings and loan association, or bank, as defined
in the Illinois Banking Act, an insubstantial portion of its
total deposits which shall have the same meaning as provided in
Section 5(d)(2)(D) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. The
sale of an insubstantial portion of a savings bank's deposits
may be by vote of a majority of the board of directors, and,
with approval of the Secretary Commissioner, without a vote of
its members or stockholders.
(Source: P.A. 86-1213.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/8015)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7308-15)
    Sec. 8015. Change in control.
    (a) No person, whether acting directly or indirectly or
through or in concert with one or more persons, may acquire
control of a savings bank operating under this Act without
prior approval of the Secretary Commissioner.
    (b) Any person seeking to acquire control of a savings bank
or subsidiary of a savings bank operating under this Act shall
submit an application in the form required by the Secretary
Commissioner.
    (c) The Secretary Commissioner may examine the books and
records of the applicant and related persons, investigate any
matter relevant to the application, and require the applicant
to submit additional information and documents.
    (d) The Secretary Commissioner shall not approve an
acquisition of control unless the application and related
examination and investigation permit the Secretary
Commissioner to find positively on all of the following
matters:
        (1) The applicant has filed a complete application, has
    cooperated with all examinations and investigations of the
    Secretary Commissioner, and has submitted all information
    and documents requested by the Secretary Commissioner.
        (2) The applicant and proposed management have the
    necessary competence, experience, integrity, and financial
    ability.
        (3) The business plans of the applicant are consistent
    with the safe and sound operation of the savings bank and
    the purposes of this Act.
        (4) The acquisition of control would not be inequitable
    to members, borrowers or creditors of the savings bank.
        (5) The applicant and proposed management have
    complied with subsection (f) (e) of this Section.
    (e) Shares of stock or mutual members shares acquired in
violation of subsection (a) of this Section shall not be voted
and shall not be counted in calculating the total number of
shares eligible to vote. In addition to any other action
authorized under this Act, the Secretary Commissioner may
require divestment of shares of stock acquired in violation of
this Section and may require retirement of the withdrawal value
of accounts providing mutual member voting shares acquired in
violation of this Section, in which case the savings bank shall
pay accrued interest on the retired withdrawal value and shall
not assess any penalty for early withdrawal.
    (f) An individual, whether acting directly or indirectly or
through or in concert with one or more persons, shall file
written notice to the Secretary Commissioner within 10 days of
the occurrence of either of the following events:
        (1) becoming, directly or indirectly, the beneficial
    owner of more than five percent of the voting shares of a
    savings bank or savings bank holding company; or
        (2) obtaining, directly or indirectly, the power to
    cast more than five percent of the member votes of a
    savings bank or savings bank holding company.
    The requirements of this subsection (f) are separate and in
addition to the requirements of subsection (a) of this Section.
    (g) The Secretary Commissioner may promulgate rules to
implement this provision, including definitions, form and
content of application or notice, procedures, exemptions, and
requirements for approval.
(Source: P.A. 96-585, eff. 8-18-09.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/8016)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7308-16)
    Sec. 8016. Procedure for conversion from a savings bank
charter.
    (a) Any savings bank operating under this Act may convert
to any other depository institution chartered under the laws
and regulations of this State or under the laws and regulations
of the United States in accordance with the following
requirements:
        (1) The converting savings bank shall notify the
    Secretary Commissioner of its intent to convert. Notice
    should be submitted when the savings bank first submits a
    request to convert to the appropriate State or federal
    authorities, but in no case less than 30 days before the
    conversion. Approval of the conversion by the Secretary
    Commissioner shall not be required except when the savings
    bank converts to a depository institution that is also
    chartered by the Secretary Commissioner in which case the
    savings bank shall comply with State law and regulations
    applicable to the conversion to such depository
    institution.
        (2) The board of directors shall approve a plan of
    conversion by resolution adopted by majority vote of all of
    the directors.
        (3) Upon notice prescribed by subsection (a) of Section
    4003 of this Act, the plan of conversion shall be adopted
    upon receiving in the affirmative two-thirds or more of the
    total number of votes that all members of the savings bank
    are entitled to cast. A report of proceedings, certified by
    the president or a vice president and attested by the
    secretary of the savings bank, shall be filed promptly with
    the Secretary Commissioner.
        (4) The savings bank shall pay all accrued supervisory
    fees and other fees and assessments under this Act as of
    the date of conversion.
        (5) Upon completion of the conversion, the charter of
    the savings bank shall automatically terminate and the
    savings bank charter or a true copy of the charter shall be
    returned to the Secretary Commissioner.
    (b) (Blank). If the Commissioner finds that any requirement
of this Section would prevent under applicable law a depository
institution that is not a savings bank from converting to a
savings bank, the Commissioner may waive any requirement having
that effect.
(Source: P.A. 91-97, eff. 7-9-99.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/8018 new)
    Sec. 8018. Waiver of requirements. Notwithstanding any
provision of this Article, the requirements imposed by this
Article on a savings bank that seeks to convert to, merge into,
or sell substantially all of its assets to a depository
institution that is not a savings bank shall be no more
burdensome or restrictive than the requirements imposed by
federal or other state law on a depository institution that is
not a savings bank that seeks to convert to, merge into, or
sell substantially all of its assets to a savings bank. The
Secretary may waive any such requirement imposed by this
Article that is more burdensome or restrictive.
 
    (205 ILCS 205/9002)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7309-2)
    Sec. 9002. Powers of Secretary. The Secretary shall have
the following powers and duties:
    (1) To exercise the rights, powers, and duties set forth in
this Act or in any related Act.
    (2) To establish regulations as may be reasonable or
necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Act.
    (3) To make an annual report regarding the work of his
office under this Act as he may consider desirable to the
Governor, or as the Governor may request.
    (4) To cause a suit to be filed in his name to enforce any
law of this State that applies to savings banks, their service
corporations, subsidiaries, affiliates, or holding companies
operating under this Act, including the enforcement of any
obligation of the officers, directors, agents, or employees of
any savings bank.
    (5) To prescribe a uniform manner in which the books and
records of every savings bank are to be maintained.
    (6) To establish a reasonable fee structure for savings
banks and holding companies operating under this Act and for
their service corporations and subsidiaries. The fees shall
include, but not be limited to, annual fees, application fees,
regular and special examination fees, and other fees as the
Secretary establishes and demonstrates to be directly
resultant from the Secretary's responsibilities under this Act
and as are directly attributable to individual entities
operating under this Act. The aggregate of all moneys fees
collected by the Secretary on and after the effective date of
this Act shall be paid promptly after receipt of the same,
accompanied by a detailed statement thereof, into the Savings
and Residential Finance Regulatory Fund subject to the
provisions of Section 7-19.1 of the Illinois Savings and Loan
Act of 1985 including without limitation the provision for
credits against regulatory fees. The amounts deposited into the
Fund shall be used for the ordinary and contingent expenses of
the Office of Banks and Real Estate. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this paragraph (6), the aggregate of all moneys
collected by the Secretary under this Act shall be paid
promptly after receipt of same, accompanied by a detailed
statement thereof, into the Savings Institutions Regulatory
Fund upon the creation of that fund under Section 7-19.2 of the
Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985, subject to the
provisions of Section 7-19.2 of the Illinois Savings and Loan
Act of 1985, including without limitation the provision for
credits against regulatory fees. The amounts deposited into the
Savings Institutions Regulatory Fund under this paragraph (6)
shall be used for the ordinary and contingent expenses of
administering and enforcing this Act. Nothing in this Act shall
prevent continuing the practice of paying expenses involving
salaries, retirement, social security, and State-paid
insurance of State officers by appropriation from the General
Revenue Fund. The Secretary may require payment of the fees
under this Act by an electronic transfer of funds or an
automatic debit of an account of each of the savings banks.
(Source: P.A. 95-1047, eff. 4-6-09; 96-1365, eff. 7-28-10.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/9004)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7309-4)
    Sec. 9004. Examination.
    (a) At least once every 18 months or more often if it is
deemed necessary or expedient, the Secretary Commissioner
shall examine the books, records, operations, and affairs of
each savings bank operating under this Act. In the course of
the examination, the Secretary may Commissioner shall also
examine in the same manner all entities, companies, and
individuals which or whom the Secretary Commissioner
determines may have a relationship with the savings bank or any
subsidiary or entity affiliated with it, if the relationship
may adversely affect the affairs, activities, and safety and
soundness of the savings bank, including: (i) companies
controlled by the savings bank; (ii) entities, including
companies controlled by the company, individual, or
individuals that control the savings bank; and (iii) the
company or other entity which controls or owns the savings
bank. For purposes of this subsection, the Commissioner shall
deem it necessary or expedient to conduct an examination more
often than every 18 months if a required report from a savings
bank indicates a material change in financial condition or a
material violation of a law or regulation. In that event, the
Commissioner shall initiate an examination within 30 days of
receipt of that information. In the event that the condition is
grounds for taking custody of the savings bank under Section
10001 of this Act, the examination shall be initiated
immediately. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
every savings bank, as defined by rule, or, if not defined, to
the same extent as would be permitted in the case of a State
bank, the Secretary, in lieu of the examination, may accept on
an alternating basis the examination made by the eligible
savings bank's appropriate federal banking agency pursuant to
Section 111 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Improvement Act of 1991, provided the appropriate federal
banking agency has made an examination.
    (b) The Secretary Commissioner shall examine to determine:
        (1) Quality of financial condition, including safety
    and soundness and investment and loan quality.
        (2) Compliance with this Act and other applicable
    statutes and regulations.
        (3) Quality of management policies.
        (4) Overall safety and soundness of the savings bank,
    its parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates.
        (5) Remedial actions required to correct and to restore
    compliance with applicable statutes, regulations, and
    proper business policies.
    (c) The Secretary may Commissioner shall promulgate
regulations to implement and administer this Section.
    (d) If a savings bank, its holding company, or any of its
corporate subsidiaries has not been audited at least once in
the 12 months prior to the Secretary's Commissioner's
examination, the Secretary may Commissioner shall cause an
audit of the savings bank's books and records to be made by an
independent licensed public accountant selected by the
Commissioner from a list composed of certified public
accountants who have experience in savings bank audits. The
cost of the audit shall be paid for by the entity being
audited.
    (e) The Secretary Commissioner or the his or her
Commissioner's examiners or other formally designated agents
are authorized to administer oaths and to examine and to take
and preserve testimony under oath as to anything in the affairs
or ownership of any savings bank or institution or affiliate
thereof.
(Source: P.A. 96-1365, eff. 7-28-10.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/9008)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7309-8)
    Sec. 9008. Report of examination. Upon completion of each
examination, the Secretary may Commissioner shall make a report
of examination to the board of directors of the savings bank or
other entity examined. The report shall be read by each
director who shall then execute a signed statement affidavit
affirming that he has read the report. The statement affidavits
shall be filed and retained by the savings bank or appropriate
entity examined and shall be examined by the Secretary
Commissioner during regular examinations.
(Source: P.A. 86-1213.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/9011)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7309-11)
    Sec. 9011. Record keeping and retention of records by a
savings bank.
    (a) Each savings bank is required to maintain appropriate
books and records, as required by the Secretary Commissioner,
that are in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles and the requirements of its insurer of accounts. All
books and records shall be current, complete, organized, and
accessible to the Secretary Commissioner, the Secretary's
Commissioner's agents and examiners, and to the savings bank's
auditors and accountants.
    (b) Each savings bank shall implement internal control and
security measures for its data processing activities. A
contract with a data processing service or for data processing
services must provide that records maintained shall at all
times be available for examination and audit by the Secretary
Commissioner.
    (c) The Secretary Commissioner may further regulate these
matters by the promulgation of rules concerning data
processing. As used herein, "data processing" means all
electronic or automated systems of communication and data
processing by computer.
    (d) Unless a federal law requires otherwise, the Secretary
may Commissioner shall by regulation prescribe periods of time
for which savings banks operating under this Act must retain
records and after the expiration of which, the savings bank may
destroy those records. No liability shall accrue against the
savings bank, the Secretary Commissioner, or this State for
destruction of records according to regulations of the
Secretary Commissioner promulgated under the authority of this
Section. In any cause or proceeding in which any records may be
called in question or be demanded by any savings bank, a
showing of the expiration of the period so prescribed shall be
sufficient excuse for failure to produce them.
(Source: P.A. 90-301, eff. 8-1-97.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/9015)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7309-15)
    Sec. 9015. Unsafe and unsound practices; orders of
prohibition and removal.
    (a) The violation of any of the following provisions of
this Act: Article 5, subsection (b) of Section 4009, Section
7006, Section 9005, and Section 9014 is deemed to be an unsafe
and unsound practice and creates an unsafe and unsound
condition in the savings bank. The savings bank or the
institution affiliated party responsible for the violation may
be subject to the assessment of civil money penalties and other
enforcement powers of the Secretary Commissioner, as specified
in this Article, in Article 11, and by regulation of the
Secretary Commissioner.
    (b) Continued violation of any of those provisions after
the Secretary Commissioner issues formal notice to correct
shall subject the directors of the savings bank at fault to
immediate removal from the board and to a permanent order of
prohibition from direct or indirect participation in the
affairs of any financial institution subject to this Act, the
Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985, or the Residential
Mortgage License Act of 1987.
    (c) The Secretary may Commissioner shall promulgate rules
and regulations to implement this Section.
(Source: P.A. 90-301, eff. 8-1-97.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/9017)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7309-17)
    Sec. 9017. Procedure upon the impairment of capital.
    (a) If the Secretary Commissioner finds from a report of
examination or other required report of a savings bank that the
capital is impaired, he may shall, in his discretion institute
whichever of the following procedures is appropriate:
        (1) Direct that the board of directors either (i)
    require the shareholders to contribute an amount at least
    sufficient to eliminate the impairment, or (ii) reduce the
    par value of the capital stock in at least the amount of
    the impairment and allocate the reduction to undivided
    profits or reserves to absorb the loss that created the
    impairment.
        (2) Take custody of the savings bank under Article 10
    of this Act, establish a conservatorship, and proceed to
    merge, sell, or otherwise dispose of the savings bank in a
    manner that will remove the capital impairment, remove
    operating losses, and restore compliance with all capital
    requirements.
        (3) Declare the stock worthless and order the directors
    to cancel the stock or order the directors to sell, merge,
    or otherwise restructure the savings bank in a manner that
    will remove the capital impairment, eliminate operating
    losses, and restore compliance with all capital
    requirements.
    (b) The Secretary may Commissioner shall promulgate rules
to implement this procedure.
(Source: P.A. 86-1213.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/9018)  (from Ch. 17, par. 7309-18)
    Sec. 9018. Administrative review. Except as provided in
Article 10 and as otherwise specifically provided by this Act,
any person aggrieved by a decision of the Secretary
Commissioner under this Act may receive a hearing before the
Secretary under Sections 9018.1 through 9018.4 of this Act
Board of Savings Institutions or otherwise seek administrative
review of the decision pursuant to the procedures set forth in
Sections 7-20 through 7-27 of the Illinois Savings and Loan Act
of 1985.
(Source: P.A. 89-508, eff. 7-3-96.)
 
    (205 ILCS 205/9018.1 new)
    Sec. 9018.1. Hearing upon verified complaint. The
Secretary shall, upon receiving the verified complaint in
writing of any aggrieved person setting forth facts that, if
proved, would constitute grounds for reversal or change of any
decision, order, or action of the Secretary, except as provided
in Section 9018 of this Act, grant a hearing on the complaint.
If the aggrieved person desires such a hearing, he or she
shall, within 10 days after receipt of notice of such decision,
order, or action, file written notice with the Secretary of
intent to demand a hearing and shall, within 30 days after
receipt of notice of such decision, order, or action, file his
or her verified complaint in writing. The date of the hearing
may not be earlier than 15 days nor later than 30 days after
the date of receipt of verified complaint in writing. The
Secretary shall, at least 10 days prior to the date set for the
hearing, notify in writing the person aggrieved by such
decision, order, or action, referred to in this Section as the
respondent, and all other parties to the action, that a hearing
will be held on the date designated and shall afford the
respondent and all other parties to the action an opportunity
to be heard in person or by counsel in reference thereto.
Written notice may be served by delivery of the same personally
to the respondent and all other parties to the action or by
mailing the notice by registered or certified mail to the place
of business specified by the respondent and all other parties
to the action in the last notification to the Secretary. At the
time and place fixed in the notice, the Secretary or his or her
authorized agent, referred to in this Section as the hearing
officer, shall proceed to hear the charges and the respondent,
all other parties to the action, and the complainant shall be
accorded ample opportunity to present in person or by counsel
such statements, testimony, evidence, and argument as may be
pertinent to the issues. The hearing officer may continue such
hearing from time to time.
    The hearing officer may subpoena any person in this State
and may take testimony either orally, by deposition, or by
exhibit, with the same fees and mileage and in the same manner
as prescribed by law in judicial proceedings in civil cases in
circuit courts of this State.
    The hearing officer may administer oaths to witnesses at
any hearing that the hearing officer is authorized by law to
conduct.
    After the hearing, the Secretary shall make a determination
approving, modifying, or disapproving the decision, order, or
action of the Secretary as his or her final administrative
decision.
 
    (205 ILCS 205/9018.2 new)
    Sec. 9018.2. Record of proceedings; expenses. The
Secretary, at his or her expense, unless otherwise provided in
this Act, shall provide a stenographer to take down the
testimony and preserve a record of all proceedings at the
hearing. The notice of hearing, complaint, and all other
documents in the nature of pleadings and written motions filed
in the proceedings, the transcript of testimony, the report of
the hearing officer, and orders of the Secretary shall be the
record of such proceedings. The Secretary shall furnish a
transcript of the record to any person interested in such
hearing upon payment of the actual cost thereof.
    A copy of the hearing officer's report and the Secretary's
orders shall be served as notice of the hearing on the
respondent and all other parties to the action by the
Secretary, either personally or by registered or certified
mail, as provided in this Act. All expenses incurred by the
Secretary, including the compensation of the hearing officer,
shall be paid by the parties to the hearing and shall be
divided among them in equal shares.
 
    (205 ILCS 205/9018.3 new)
    Sec. 9018.3. Subpoena; deposition. All subpoenas issued
under the laws of this State pertaining to or concerning
savings banks may be served by any person who is not a minor.
The fees of witnesses for attendance and travel shall be the
same as fees of witnesses before the circuit courts of this
State. Witness fees are to be paid at the time the witness is
excused from further attendance, when the witness is subpoenaed
at the instance of the Secretary or any officer or any employee
designated by him or her for the purpose of conducting any
investigation, inquiry, or hearing. The disbursements made in
the payment of witness fees shall be audited and paid in the
same manner as are other expenses of the Secretary. Whenever a
subpoena is issued at the instance of a complainant,
respondent, or other party to any proceeding, the Secretary may
require that the cost of service thereof and the fee of the
same shall be borne by the party at whose instance the witness
is summoned, and the Secretary shall have power, in his or her
discretion, to require a deposit to cover the cost of such
service and witness fees and the payment of legal witness fees
and mileage to the witness when served with a subpoena. A
subpoena issued under this Section shall be served in the same
manner as a subpoena issued out of a court.
    Any person served with a subpoena to appear and testify or
to produce books, papers, accounts, or documents, either in
person or by deposition, in the manner provided in this
Section, issued by the Secretary or by any officer or any
employee designated by him or her to conduct any such
investigation, inquiry, or hearing, in the course of an
investigation, inquiry, or hearing conducted under any of the
provisions of the laws of this State pertaining to savings
banks, and who refuses or neglects to appear or to testify, or
to produce books, papers, accounts, and documents relative to
such investigation, inquiry, or hearing as commanded in such
subpoena, shall be guilty of a petty offense.
    Any circuit court of this State, on application of the
Secretary or an officer or an employee designated by the
Secretary for the purpose of conducting any investigation,
inquiry, or hearing, may, in his or her discretion, compel the
attendance of witnesses, the production of books, papers,
accounts, and documents, and the giving of testimony before the
Secretary or before any officer or any employee designated by
the Secretary for the purpose of conducting any such
investigation, inquiry, or hearing, in person or by deposition,
in the manner provided in this Section, by an attachment for
contempt or otherwise, in the same manner as production of
evidence may be compelled before a court.
    The Secretary, any officer or employee designated by the
Secretary for the purpose of conducting any investigation,
inquiry, or hearing, or any party may, in any investigation,
inquiry, or hearing, cause the deposition of witnesses residing
within or outside of the State to be taken in the manner
prescribed by law for taking like depositions in civil cases in
courts of this State and, to that end, may compel the
attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, books,
accounts, and documents.
 
    (205 ILCS 205/9018.4 new)
    Sec. 9018.4. Review under Administrative Review Law.
Except as provided in Article 10, any person affected by a
final administrative decision of the Secretary may have the
decision reviewed only under and in accordance with the
Administrative Review Law.
    The provisions of the Administrative Review Law, all
amendments and modifications to the Administrative Review Law,
and the rules adopted under the Administrative Review Law,
shall apply to and govern all proceedings for the judicial
review of final administrative decisions of the Secretary under
this Act. For the purposes of this Section, "administrative
decision" is defined as in Section 3-101 of the Code of Civil
Procedure.
    Appeals from all final orders and judgments entered by a
court in review of any final administrative decision of the
Board under this Act may be taken as in other civil cases.
 
    Section 25. The Corporate Fiduciary Act is amended by
changing the heading of Article IX and by changing Sections
4A-5, 5-9, and 6-13.5 as follows:
 
    (205 ILCS 620/4A-5)
    Sec. 4A-5. Foreign corporations establishing places of
business to conduct fiduciary activities in Illinois.
    (a) A foreign corporation may establish or acquire and
maintain a place of business for the conduct of business as a
fiduciary in this State provided that a corporate fiduciary
that has its principal place of business in Illinois is
permitted to establish or acquire and maintain a similar place
of business that may engage in activities substantially similar
to those permitted to foreign corporations under this Act in
the state where the foreign corporation has its principal place
of business.
    (b) A foreign corporation desiring to establish or acquire
and maintain a place of business to conduct business as a
fiduciary in Illinois under this Section shall provide, or
cause its home state regulator to provide, written notice of
the proposed transaction to the Commissioner on or after the
date on which the foreign corporation applies to its home state
regulator for approval to establish or acquire and maintain a
place of business in Illinois. The filing of the notice shall
be preceded or accompanied by a copy of the resolution adopted
by the board authorizing the additional place of business and
the filing fee required by the Commissioner. The Commissioner
may prescribe the form of the notice required under this
Section. In the Commissioner's discretion, the application or
notice submitted to the foreign corporation's home state
regulator may be sufficient notice under this Section.
    (c) A foreign corporation desiring to establish or acquire
and maintain a place of business to conduct business as a
fiduciary shall (i) confirm in writing to the Commissioner that
for as long as it maintains a place of business in Illinois, it
will comply with the laws of this State and (ii) provide
satisfactory evidence to the Commissioner of compliance with
any applicable requirements of state foreign corporation
qualification laws and applicable requirements of its home
state regulator for acquiring or establishing and maintaining
the office.
    (d) A foreign corporation submitting a notice to the
Commissioner in accordance with subsection (b) may commence
fiduciary business at the place of business listed in its
notice after the Commissioner approves the foreign corporation
to conduct a fiduciary business in Illinois on the 61st day
after the date the Commissioner receives the notice unless the
Commissioner specifies an earlier or later date. However, if
the foreign corporation is not a depository institution and the
Commissioner approves the foreign corporation to conduct a
fiduciary business in Illinois subject to specific conditions,
the foreign corporation shall not commence a fiduciary business
in Illinois until it has satisfied those conditions and
provided evidence satisfactory to the Commissioner that it has
done so. The Commissioner may extend the 60-day review period
if additional time or information is needed for approval of the
notice. The Commissioner may deny approval of the notice if he
finds that the foreign corporation lacks sufficient financial
resources to undertake the proposed expansion without
adversely affecting its safety or soundness or that the place
of business is contrary to the public interest.
(Source: P.A. 92-483, eff. 8-23-01.)
 
    (205 ILCS 620/5-9)  (from Ch. 17, par. 1555-9)
    Sec. 5-9. Statement of condition.
    (a) Each corporate fiduciary shall file with the
Commissioner, when requested, a statement under oath, of the
condition of such corporate fiduciary as of the date requested.
The statement of condition shall be in such form and contain
such statements, returns and information, as to the affairs,
business conditions, and resources of the corporate fiduciary
or of its trust department, as the case may be, as the said
Commissioner may, from time to time prescribe or require.
    (b) Such statement of condition shall be verified by the
affidavit of the president, vice president or principal
accounting officer of said corporate fiduciary, who shall also
state in such affidavit that he has examined the books and
accounts of said corporate fiduciary or of its trust
department, as the case may be for the purpose of making said
report or statement, and that the information contained in the
statement or report is accurate to the best of his knowledge
and belief. If the statement is submitted in electronic form,
the Commissioner may, in the call for the report, specify the
manner in which the appropriate officer of the corporate
fiduciary shall verify the statement of condition.
    (c) (Blank). The corporate fiduciary shall cause a proper
abstract of the statements of assets and liabilities reported
under sub-section (a) of this Section to be published once in a
newspaper of general circulation, circulated in the city, town
or village where the corporate fiduciary is located. Such
publication shall be paid for by said corporate fiduciary which
shall cause to be provided to the Commissioner a certificate of
publication from the publishing newspaper in such form as the
Commissioner shall require. When the corporate fiduciary is a
State bank, qualified under this Act, the statements published
in compliance with the Illinois Banking Act may be accepted by
the Commissioner in compliance with the publication
requirements of this Section although an annual statement of
condition may still be required.
    (d) Any corporate fiduciary which fails to file an accurate
statement of condition on or before the date it is due, to
publish the report if required to be published, or which fails
to provide evidence of such publication may be fined $100 for
each day of noncompliance.
    (e) Any corporate fiduciary which is the victim of a
robbery or experiences a shortage of funds in excess of
$10,000, an apparent misapplication of the corporate
fiduciary's funds by an officer, employee, director, or agent,
a charge-off of assets of the corporate fiduciary, or any
adverse legal action in an amount in excess of 10% of total
capital and surplus of the corporate fiduciary, including but
not limited to, the entry of an adverse money judgment against
the corporate fiduciary shall report that information in
writing to the Commissioner within 7 days. Neither the
corporate fiduciary, its directors, officers, employees or
agents, in the preparation or filing of the reports required by
this subsection, shall be subject to any liability for libel,
slander or other charges resulting from information supplied in
such reports, except when the supplying of such information is
done in a corrupt or malicious manner or otherwise not in good
faith.
(Source: P.A. 89-364, eff. 8-18-95.)
 
    (205 ILCS 620/6-13.5)
    Sec. 6-13.5. Pledging requirements.
    (a) The Commissioner may require a trust company holding a
certificate of authority under this Act to pledge to the
Commissioner securities or a surety bond which shall run to the
Commissioner in an amount, not to exceed $2,000,000 $1,000,000,
that the Commissioner deems appropriate for costs associated
with the receivership of the trust company. In the event of a
receivership of a trust company, the Commissioner may, without
regard to any priorities, preferences, or adverse claims,
reduce the pledged securities or the surety bond to cash and,
as soon as practicable, utilize the cash to cover costs
associated with the receivership.
    (b) If the trust company chooses to pledge securities to
satisfy the provisions of this Section, the securities shall be
held at a depository institution or a Federal Reserve Bank
approved by the Commissioner. The Commissioner may specify the
types of securities that may be pledged in accordance with this
Section. Any fees associated with holding such securities shall
be the responsibility of the trust company.
    (c) If the trust company chooses to purchase a surety bond
to satisfy the provisions of this Section, the bond shall be
issued by a bonding company, approved by the Commissioner, that
is authorized to do business in this State and that has a
rating in one of the 3 highest grades as determined by a
national rating service. The bond shall be in a form approved
by the Commissioner. The trust company may not obtain a surety
bond from any entity in which the trust company has a financial
interest.
(Source: P.A. 92-485, eff. 8-23-01.)
 
    (205 ILCS 620/Art. IX heading)
ARTICLE IX. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ,
FIDUCIARY ADVISORY COMMITTEE

 
    (205 ILCS 105/7-11 rep.)
    (205 ILCS 105/7-12 rep.)
    (205 ILCS 105/7-13 rep.)
    (205 ILCS 105/7-14 rep.)
    (205 ILCS 105/7-16 rep.)
    (205 ILCS 105/7-17 rep.)
    (205 ILCS 105/7-18 rep.)
    (205 ILCS 105/7-19 rep.)
    Section 28. The Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985 is
amended by repealing Sections 7-11, 7-12, 7-13, 7-14, 7-16,
7-17, 7-18, and 7-19.
 
    (205 ILCS 205/9010 rep.)
    Section 30. The Savings Bank Act is amended by repealing
Section 9010.
 
    (205 ILCS 616/70 rep.)
    (205 ILCS 616/75 rep.)
    Section 35. The Electronic Fund Transfer Act is amended by
repealing Sections 70 and 75.
 
    (205 ILCS 620/1-5.04 rep.)
    (205 ILCS 620/9-1 rep.)
    (205 ILCS 620/9-2 rep.)
    (205 ILCS 620/9-3 rep.)
    (205 ILCS 620/9-4 rep.)
    Section 40. The Corporate Fiduciary Act is amended by
repealing Sections 1-5.04, 9-1, 9-2, 9-3, and 9-4.