Tex. Finance Code § 96.104
This is the official text of Tex. Finance Code § 96.104, part of Texas’s Finance Code — regulates banks and other financial institutions.
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§ 96.104. INTERVENTION RELATING TO EXAMINATION OF AFFAIRS.
Official statutory text
(a) The commissioner may intervene in the affairs of a savings bank if a person who participates in the affairs of the savings bank or a subsidiary or holding company of the savings bank:
(1) refuses or is about to refuse to submit to interrogation under oath by the commissioner or the commissioner's agent with respect to the savings bank's affairs; or
(2) materially alters, conceals, removes, or falsifies or is about to materially alter, conceal, remove, or falsify a book or record of the savings bank or a subsidiary or holding company of the savings bank.
(b) The commissioner may intervene in the affairs of a savings bank if the savings bank:
(1) fails to maintain books and records from which the true financial condition of the savings bank or the state of the savings bank's affairs can be determined; or
(2) refuses to direct a person having possession of the books, papers, records, or accounts of the savings bank or the savings bank's subsidiary to permit the commissioner or the commissioner's representative to examine those documents or accounts.
(1) refuses or is about to refuse to submit to interrogation under oath by the commissioner or the commissioner's agent with respect to the savings bank's affairs; or
(2) materially alters, conceals, removes, or falsifies or is about to materially alter, conceal, remove, or falsify a book or record of the savings bank or a subsidiary or holding company of the savings bank.
(b) The commissioner may intervene in the affairs of a savings bank if the savings bank:
(1) fails to maintain books and records from which the true financial condition of the savings bank or the state of the savings bank's affairs can be determined; or
(2) refuses to direct a person having possession of the books, papers, records, or accounts of the savings bank or the savings bank's subsidiary to permit the commissioner or the commissioner's representative to examine those documents or accounts.
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