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Article 1. General Provisions of California Financial Code >> Division 1.1. >> Chapter 19. >> Article 1.

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
  (a) "Branch business unit" has the meaning set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 4840.
  (b) "Core banking business" means the business of receiving deposits, paying checks, making loans, and other activities that the commissioner may specify by order or regulation. "Core banking business," when used to describe the trust business, includes receiving fiduciary assets and administering fiduciary accounts.
  (c) "Facility," when used with respect to a foreign (other state) bank, means an office in this state at which the bank engages in noncore banking business but at which it does not engage in core banking business.
  (d) "Noncore banking business" means all activities permissible for commercial banks, industrial banks, or trust companies, except core banking business, and except those activities prohibited by law or determined by the commissioner by regulation or order not to be noncore banking business.
  (e) "Whole business unit" has the meaning set forth in subdivision (g) of Section 4840.
Each application filed with the commissioner under this chapter or under any regulation or order issued under this chapter shall be in the form, shall contain the information, shall be signed in the manner, and shall (if the commissioner requires by regulation or order) be verified in the manner that the commissioner may by regulation or order require.
(a) Each foreign (other state) bank that maintains a facility or a California branch office shall file with the commissioner such reports as and when the commissioner may by regulation or order require.
  (b) Each report filed with the commissioner under this chapter or under any regulation or order issued under this chapter shall be in the form, shall contain the information, shall be signed in the manner, and shall (if the commissioner requires by regulation or order) be verified in the manner that the commissioner may by regulation or order require.
Each foreign (other state) bank that maintains a facility (other than a foreign (other state) national bank that maintains a California branch office) and each foreign (other state) state bank that maintains a California branch office shall make, keep, and preserve at the facility or branch office or at another place that the commissioner may by regulation or order approve, the books, accounts, and other records relating to the business of the office, in the form, in the manner, and for the time that the commissioner may by regulation or order provide.
Fees shall be paid to and collected by the commissioner as follows:
  (a) The fee for filing with the commissioner an application by an uninsured foreign (other state) bank for approval to establish a facility is two hundred fifty dollars ($250).
  (b) The fee for filing with the commissioner an application by an uninsured foreign (other state) bank that is licensed pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 1710) to maintain a facility for approval to relocate or to close the facility is one hundred dollars ($100).
  (c) The fee for issuing a license pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 3860) is twenty-five dollars ($25).
  (d) Each foreign (other state) state bank that on June 1 of any year maintains one or more California branch offices shall pay, on or before the following July 1, a fee of one thousand dollars ($1,000) per California branch office. However, the minimum fee paid by a foreign (other state) state bank under this subdivision shall be not less than three thousand dollars ($3,000) and the maximum fee shall be not more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000).
  (e) Each foreign (other state) bank that on June 1 of any year maintains a facility but no California branch office shall pay, on or before the following July 1, a fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for each facility.
  (f) If the commissioner makes an examination in connection with a pending application, as described in subdivision (a) or (b), the applicant shall pay a fee for the examination of seventy-five dollars ($75) per hour for each examiner engaged in the examination plus, if in the opinion of the commissioner it is necessary for any examiner engaged in the examination to travel outside this state, the travel expenses of the examiner.
  (g) If the commissioner makes an examination of a foreign (other state) state bank that maintains a California branch office, the bank shall pay a fee for the examination of seventy-five dollars ($75) per hour for each examiner engaged in the examination plus, if in the opinion of the commissioner it is necessary for any examiner engaged in the examination to travel outside this state, the travel expenses of the examiner.
  (h) If the commissioner makes an examination of a facility of an uninsured foreign (other state) bank licensed under Article 4 (commencing with Section 1710), the bank shall pay a fee for the examination of seventy-five dollars ($75) per hour for each examiner engaged in the examination plus, if in the opinion of the commissioner it is necessary for any examiner engaged in the examination to travel outside this state, the travel expenses of the examiner.
  (i) If the commissioner makes an examination of a facility of an insured foreign (other state) bank that does not maintain a California branch office, the bank shall pay a fee for the examination of seventy-five dollars ($75) per hour for each examiner engaged in the examination plus, if in the opinion of the commissioner it is necessary for any examiner engaged in the examination to travel outside this state, the travel expenses of the examiner.
(a) Any foreign (other state) state bank is exempted from the restrictions of Section 1 of Article XV of the California Constitution relating to rates of interest upon the loan or forbearance of any money, goods, or things in action or on accounts after demand.
  (b) This section does not exempt a foreign (other state) state bank or any subsidiary from complying with all other laws and regulations governing the business in which the bank or subsidiary is engaged.
  (c) This section creates and authorizes an exempt class of persons pursuant to Section 1 of Article XV of the California Constitution.
(a) In this section, "subject bank" means a bank organized under the laws of any territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands, or the Northern Mariana Islands.
  (b) Nothing in this chapter, except subdivision (c), applies to a subject bank that, as a foreign (other nation) bank, maintains an office in this state licensed under Chapter 20 (commencing with Section 1750) or a federal agency (as defined in Section 1750) or federal branch (as defined in Section 1750) in this state.
  (c) No subject bank may at the same time maintain (1) as a foreign (other state) state bank, an office in this state and (2) as a foreign (other nation) bank, an office in this state licensed under Chapter 20 (commencing with Section 1750) or a federal agency (as defined in Section 1750) or federal branch (as defined in Section 1750) in this state.