Section 5800 Of Article 8. Holding Companies And Stock Acquisitions From California Financial Code >> Division 2. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 8.
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. For the purposes of this article the following words and
phrases shall have the following meanings:
(a) "Savings and loan holding company" means any person that
either, directly or indirectly, or acting in concert with one or more
other persons:
(1) Owns, controls, or holds with power to vote, or holds proxies
to vote:
(A) Where the association or savings and loan holding company has
fewer than 500 stockholders or members, 25 percent or more of the
outstanding voting capital stock of any capital stock association or
savings and loan holding company or 25 percent or more of the total
number of votes or proxies of votes eligible to be cast by the
members of any mutual association located in this state.
(B) Where the association or savings and loan holding company has
at least 500 stockholders or members, 10 percent or more of the
outstanding voting capital stock of any capital stock association or
savings and loan holding company or 10 percent or more of the total
number of votes or proxies of votes eligible to be cast by the
members of any mutual association located in this state.
(2) Controls in any manner, whether by the holding of proxies or
otherwise, the election of a majority of the directors of any
association or savings and loan holding company located in this
state.
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), an individual or group of
individuals shall not be deemed to be a "savings and loan holding
company" solely because an individual or group of individuals
solicits, holds, or votes proxies in an association if, at the time
of receiving the proxies, the individual or group of individuals
serve as directors of the association and solicited or received the
proxies pursuant to authorization by the board of directors of the
association.
(c) "Subsidiary" of a person means any person, except an
individual that is directly or indirectly owned, controlled, or
otherwise held by that person to the extent or in the manner
described in the preceding subdivision.
(d) "Completed application" means an application for acquisition
of control of an association, as filed with the commissioner,
together with any amendments by the applicant, additional information
requested in writing by the commissioner, and accompanied by the
applicable filing fee pursuant to Section 9001. If the additional
required information is not received within 30 days of the date of
the request, the commissioner may consider the application complete
upon written notice to the applicant.