PUBLIC LAW 96-221—MAR. 31, 1980
94 STAT. 157
"(7) In any case in which the laws of a State require that a corporation acting as trustee, executor, administrator, or in any capacity specified in this section, shall take an oath or make an affidavit, the president, vice president, cashier, or trust officer of such association may take the necessary oath or execute the necessary affidavit. "(8) It shall be unlawful for any association to lend any officer, director, or employee any funds held in trust under the powers conferred by this section. Any officer, director, or employee making such loan, or to whom such loan is made, may be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or may be both fined and imprisoned, in the discretion of the court. "(9) In passing upon applications for permission to exercise the powers enumerated in this section, the Board may take into consideration the amount of capital and surplus of the applying association, whether or not such capital and surplus is sufficient under the circumstances of the case, the needs of the community to be served, and any other facts and circumstances that seem to it proper, and may grant or refuse the application accordingly, except that no permit shall be issued to any association having a capital and surplus less than the capital and surplus required by State law of State banks, trust companies, and corporations exercising such powers. "(10)(A) Any association desiring to surrender its right to exercise the powers granted under this section, in order to relieve itself of the necessity of complying with the requirements of this section, or to have returned to it any securities which it may have deposited with the State authorities for the protection of private or court trusts, or for any other purpose, may file with the Board a certified copy of a resolution of its board of directors signifying such desire. "(B) Upon receipt of such resolution, the Board, after satisfying itself that such association has been relieved in accordance with State law of all duties as trustee, executor, administrator, guardian or other fiduciary, under court, private or other appointments previously accepted under authority of this section, may in its discretion, issue to such association a certificate certifying that such association is no longer authorized to exercise the powers granted by this section. "(C) Upon the issuance of such a certificate by the Board, such association (i) shall no longer be subject to the provisions of this section or the regulations of the Board made pursuant thereto, (ii) shall be entitled to have returned to it any securities which it may have deposited with the State authorities for the protection of private or court trusts, and (iii) shall not exercise thereafter any of the powers granted by this section without first applying for and obtaining a new permit to exercise such powers pursuant to the provisions of this section. "(D) The Board is authorized and empowered to promulgate such Regulations, regulations as it may deem necessary to enforce compliance with the provisions of this subsection and the proper exercise of the trust powers granted by this subsection. "(11)(A) In addition to the authority conferred by other law, if, in Revocation the opinion of the Board, an association is unlawfully or unsoundly order. exercising, or has unlawfully or unsoundly exercised, or has failed for a period of five consecutive years to exercise, the powers granted by this section or otherwise fails or has failed to comply with the requirements of this subsection, the Board may issue and serve upon
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