Article 6. State Banking Account of California Financial Code >> Division 1. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 6.

(a) The commissioner shall annually collect pro rata from the banks and trust companies under the supervision of the department a fund in an amount sufficient in the commissioner's judgment to meet the expenses of the department in administering laws relating to banks or trust companies or to the banking or trust business that are not otherwise provided for and to provide a reasonable reserve for contingencies.
  (b) The amount of the annual assessment for the fund on any bank or trust company shall not be less than five thousand dollars ($5,000). Above that minimum amount, except as otherwise provided in subdivision (c), the annual assessment shall not exceed the sum of the products of a base assessment rate, or percentage thereof, and segregated portions of its total resources, according to the following table:

Segregated Total Resources Percentage of Base (In Millions or Fractions Thereof) Assessment Rate First $2 100.0 Next $18 50.0 Next $80 12.0 Next $100 6.25 Next $800 6.0 Next $1,000 4.0 Next $4,000 3.5 Next $14,000 3.0 Next $20,000 2.5 Excess over $40,000 1.5

(c) (1) For purposes of determining the annual assessment on banks and trust companies that have one or more foreign (other state) branch offices, the resources of foreign (other state) branch offices shall be excluded from total resources, except that the commissioner may order the resources of foreign (other state) branch offices to be included in total resources if and to the extent that it is necessary in the commissioner's judgment to meet the expenses of the department on account of foreign (other state) branch offices and a reasonable reserve for contingencies.
  (2) If the commissioner finds that a bank or trust company allocated any resource to a foreign (other state) branch office for the purpose, in whole or in part, of reducing its annual assessment, the commissioner may, for purposes of calculating the annual assessment on the bank or trust company, reallocate the resource to the bank's or trust company's head office.
  (d) The base assessment rate shall be set by the commissioner from time to time at the commissioner's discretion, not to exceed two dollars and twenty cents ($2.20) per one thousand dollars ($1,000) of total resources.

The commissioner shall annually collect from national banking associations and foreign (other state) banks operating trust departments in this state an annual assessment to meet expenses of the department, not exceeding one one-hundredth of 1 percent of the amount required by law to be deposited with the Treasurer as surety for the faithful performance and execution of all court and private trusts accepted by them.

Whenever the commissioner makes an assessment pursuant to Section 405 or 406, the commissioner shall fix the date when the assessment is due and payable and shall mail or otherwise deliver to each bank and trust company assessed an invoice showing the amount of its assessment and the date when the assessment is due and payable.

The commissioner, in addition to the annual assessment, shall collect from each bank authorized to engage in the trust business, to defray the cost of examination, a fee not to exceed seventy-five dollars ($75) per hour for each examiner necessarily engaged in the examination of the trust company, trust business, or trust department. The commissioner shall assess the fee upon completion of the examination of the trust company or trust business and shall mail or otherwise deliver an invoice for the fee to the institution. The institution shall pay the fee within 30 days after the invoice is mailed or otherwise delivered to it.

If any bank or trust company fails to make timely payment of any assessment made pursuant to Section 405, 406, or 408, the commissioner may, in the commissioner's sole discretion, (a) cancel the certificate of authority of the bank or trust company to conduct a banking or trust business or (b) levy a civil penalty pursuant to Section 329.

As of the operative date of this section:
  (a) The State Banking Fund is converted into a separate account in the Financial Institutions Fund and designated as the State Banking Account.
  (b) All moneys and other assets and all liabilities of the State Banking Fund shall be transferred to the State Banking Account.

Except as otherwise provided in Section 413 or 414, all salaries and other expenses of the department, other than those incurred in administering laws relating to savings associations or the savings association business, credit unions or the credit union business, industrial banks, the industrial banking business, insurance premium finance agencies, the insurance premium finance business, or Article 2 (commencing with Section 53630) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, shall be paid out of the State Banking Account in the Financial Institutions Fund. Salaries and other expenses incurred in the liquidation or conservation of any bank (other than an industrial bank) or of any person licensed under Division 1.2 (commencing with Section 2000) or Division 15 (commencing with Section 31000), including the compensation of employees of the department to the extent that they are engaged in that liquidation or conservation, if possible, and if advanced from the State Banking Account in the Financial Institutions Fund, shall constitute a first charge against the assets of the bank or licensee, as the case may be. Salaries and other expenses incurred in the liquidation or conservation of any industrial bank, including the compensation of employees of the department to the extent that they are engaged in that liquidation or conservation, if possible, and if advanced from the Industrial Bank Account in the Financial Institutions Fund, shall constitute a first charge against the assets of the industrial bank.

The commissioner shall deliver all moneys received or collected by the commissioner under Section 405, 406, or 408 or otherwise, other than moneys received or collected by the commissioner under laws relating to savings associations, the savings association business, credit unions, the credit union business, industrial banks, the industrial banking business, insurance premium finance agencies, the insurance premium finance business, or Article 2 (commencing with Section 53630) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, to the Treasurer, who shall deposit the moneys to the credit of the State Banking Account of the Financial Institutions Fund.

(a) In this section, "assessment statute" means any statute that authorizes the commissioner to make or collect an assessment (other than a fine) on financial institutions, including the following:
  (1) Sections 405 to 407, inclusive.
  (2) Section 2042.
  (3) Article 2 (commencing with Section 8030) of Chapter 7 of Division 2.
  (4) Article 4 (commencing with Section 14350) of Chapter 3 of Division 5.
  (5) Section 1533.
  (b) The commissioner may charge to and collect from the Financial Institutions Fund, the Credit Union Fund, each of the accounts included in the Financial Institutions Fund, and each of the programs included in the State Banking Account an amount equal to the fund's, account's, or program's pro rata share of those expenses of the department which, in the opinion of the commissioner, it is not feasible to attribute to any single one of the funds, accounts, or programs. The fund's, account's, or program's pro rata share shall be determined and paid in the manner and at the time ordered by the commissioner.
  (c) The provisions of any assessment statute that authorize the commissioner to make or collect an assessment for the purposes specified in the assessment statute include authority for the commissioner to make and collect an assessment for the additional purpose of providing money in an amount that will, in the commissioner's judgment, be sufficient to make payments that may be required under subdivision (b).

Notwithstanding any other provision of this code or of Section 53667 of the Government Code, the commissioner may, at any time during a fiscal year, pay any expense of the department from any of the following accounts and funds: the State Banking Account, the Savings and Loan Account, the Industrial Bank Account, the Financial Institutions Fund, the Credit Union Fund, and the Local Agency Deposit Security Fund. However, if the commissioner pays an expense of the department from an account or fund from which the expense is not, except for this section, permitted to be paid, the commissioner shall, as of a date within that fiscal year, reimburse the account or fund from which the expense was paid by making a transfer from the account or fund from which the expense would have been permitted to be paid.