Tex. Finance Code § 96.301
This is the official text of Tex. Finance Code § 96.301, part of Texas’s Finance Code — regulates banks and other financial institutions.
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§ 96.301. LIQUIDATION OF SAVINGS BANK.
Official statutory text
(a) If the commissioner doubts that a savings bank subject to a conservatorship order can be rehabilitated, the commissioner may close the savings bank as provided by Subchapter F or set a hearing to determine whether the savings bank should be liquidated. Not later than the 10th day before the hearing date, notice of the hearing shall be given by certified mail to the officers and directors of the savings bank and by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the principal office of the savings bank is located.
(b) If the commissioner closes a savings bank or finds after a hearing under Subsection (a) that the savings bank cannot be rehabilitated and that it is in the public interest and the best interests of the deposit account holders and creditors of the savings bank that the bank be closed and its assets liquidated, the commissioner by liquidation order may appoint a liquidating agent and dissolve the savings bank.
(b) If the commissioner closes a savings bank or finds after a hearing under Subsection (a) that the savings bank cannot be rehabilitated and that it is in the public interest and the best interests of the deposit account holders and creditors of the savings bank that the bank be closed and its assets liquidated, the commissioner by liquidation order may appoint a liquidating agent and dissolve the savings bank.
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