Section 8160 Of Article 4. Reports And Examinations From California Financial Code >> Division 2. >> Chapter 7. >> Article 4.
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. If an association, savings and loan holding company, or any
subsidiary of an association or savings and loan holding company
fails to report to the commissioner as required by this article, the
commissioner may impose penalties in accordance with the following:
(a) Any association, savings and loan holding company, or any
subsidiary of an association or savings and loan holding company
which (1) maintains procedures reasonably adapted to avoid any
inadvertent error and, unintentionally and as a result of such an
error (A) fails to make, obtain, transmit, or publish any report or
information required by the commissioner by the due date set forth in
this article or, if no due date is set forth in this article, the
date specified by the commissioner, or (B) submits or publishes any
false or misleading report or information or (2) inadvertently
transmits or publishes any report which is minimally late, shall be
subject to a civil penalty of not more than two thousand dollars
($2,000) for each day during which the failure continues or the false
or misleading information is not corrected. The association, savings
and loan holding company, or subsidiary of an association or savings
and loan holding company shall have the burden of proving that an
error was inadvertent and that a report was inadvertently transmitted
or published late.
(b) Any association, savings and loan holding company, or any
subsidiary of an association or savings and loan holding company
which (1) fails to make, obtain, transmit, or publish any report or
information required by the commissioner by the due date set forth in
this article or, if no due date is set forth in this article, the
date specified by the commissioner or (2) submits or publishes any
false or misleading report or information, in a manner not described
in subdivision (a) shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more
than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for each day during which the
failure continues or the false and misleading information is not
corrected.
(c) Any association, savings and loan holding company, or any
subsidiary of an association or savings and loan holding company
which knowingly or with reckless disregard for the accuracy of any
information or report subject to this section submits or publishes
any false or misleading report or information, shall be subject to a
civil penalty of not more than one million dollars ($1,000,000) or 1
percent of total assets of the savings institution, whichever is
less, per day for each day during which the false or misleading
information is not corrected.
(d) Any penalty imposed under subdivisions (a), (b), or (c) shall
be assessed and collected by the commissioner in the same manner as
provided in Section 5330.