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Home » US Law » 2022 Colorado Code » Title 11 - Financial Institutions » Article 41 - Organization and Powers

§ 11-41-101. General Organization

Domestic associations may be incorporated with shares or stock or both and with all the rights, powers, and privileges and subject to all the restrictions set forth in articles 40 to 46 of this title. Source: L. 33: p. 287, § 1. CSA: C. 25, § 4. CRS 53: § 122-2-1. C.R.S. 1963: § 122-2-1.

§ 11-41-102. Restriction on Corporate Name

The name of each domestic association incorporated on or after May 17, 1939, shall include the words “savings and loan association”. If the name of the domestic association contains the words “savings and loan association”, it need not comply with the requirements of part 6 of article 90 of title 7, C.R.S. No association shall […]

§ 11-41-103. Use of Name “Savings and Loan Association” Restricted

It is unlawful for any person, firm, company, association, partnership, society, or corporation, either domestic or foreign, to transact business under any name or title which contains the term “savings and loan”, or use any sign or circulate or use any letterhead, billhead, circular, or paper whatsoever, or advertise in any manner to indicate that […]

§ 11-41-104. Articles of Incorporation

Any five or more persons who are citizens of this state and who may desire to form a corporation for the purpose of carrying on the business of a savings and loan association shall make, sign, and acknowledge, in triplicate, before some officer competent to take the acknowledgment of deeds, a certificate in writing, known […]

§ 11-41-105. Minimum Stock Subscription – Issuance of Preferred Stock

No permanent stock association shall be organized on or after July 1, 1983, unless, prior to the filing of its articles of incorporation, such minimum amount of its permanent stock and paid-in surplus as required by the commissioner has been subscribed for and the same paid for in lawful money of the United States and […]

§ 11-41-106. Approval of Articles of Incorporation

The articles of incorporation of any savings and loan association organized under articles 40 to 46 of this title shall not be filed in the office of the secretary of state of the state of Colorado or be received by the secretary of state for filing unless accompanied by a certificate of approval by the […]

§ 11-41-107. Documents Deposited With Commissioner

Every domestic savings and loan association proposing to incorporate in this state shall first deposit with the commissioner the following documents: Two signed and verified copies of the articles of incorporation of the association; Two copies of the bylaws of the association; Applications signed and verified by a majority of the initial directors of such […]

§ 11-41-108. Refusal of Certificate – Appeal

If the commissioner, after an examination, believes for any reason that a certificate of approval should not be issued and refuses to issue the same, he shall file a written statement with a board consisting of the governor, the attorney general, and the state treasurer of the state of Colorado giving in detail his reasons […]

§ 11-41-109. Certificate of Approval – Where Articles Filed

If the commissioner finds affirmatively for the association upon all the matters set forth in section 11-41-107, he shall issue a certificate of approval under his hand and seal, executed in duplicate, within sixty days thereafter, in which shall be recited in substance the following: That the articles of incorporation and bylaws have been filed […]

§ 11-41-110. Body Corporate

Upon making the articles of incorporation, obtaining a certificate of approval from the commissioner, filing the articles of incorporation and certificate of approval in the office of the secretary of state, and paying the filing fees therefor to the secretary of state, the persons so associating and their successors and assigns shall, from the date […]

§ 11-41-111. Renewal of Corporate Life

Any association incorporated under any law prior to June 8, 1933, may extend its corporate life upon the affirmative vote of at least a majority of its directors at a special meeting of the board of directors called for that purpose, setting out the purpose of said meeting, and ratified by the written consent of […]

§ 11-41-112. Powers of Savings and Loan Associations

Savings and loan associations have the following powers: To have succession of its corporate name; As to all associations incorporated prior to June 8, 1933, to have existence for the period named in their articles of incorporation and, on the termination of such period, perpetually if so provided in the extension; As to all associations […]

§ 11-41-113. Federal Home Loan Bank Membership

Any savings and loan association organized and incorporated under the laws of this state as a savings and loan association that is eligible to become a member of the federal home loan bank, in accordance with the provisions of the act of congress known and cited as the “Federal Home Loan Bank Act”, 12 U.S.C. […]

§ 11-41-114. How Funds Invested

Any savings and loan association may invest any portion of its funds in any of the following: Loans to its members, secured by first lien trust deeds or mortgages upon improved real estate, and upon such plans of repayment, as provided in section 11-41-119, and in such other loans to its members as the commissioner […]

§ 11-41-115. Interest Rates on Loans

Any savings and loan association may charge, contract for, and recover such rate of interest as may be provided in the notes or other evidences of indebtedness taken by the association. Notes secured solely by the pledge of shares and notes secured by real estate mortgages repayable upon the sinking fund plan shall be nonnegotiable […]

§ 11-41-116. Where Associations May Operate

Upon approval of the commissioner, a savings and loan association may conduct business in this state, in other states, in the District of Columbia, in the territories and colonies of the United States, and in foreign countries, and have one or more offices out of this state, and own, hold, purchase, mortgage, lease, and convey […]

§ 11-41-117. Insurance of Shares

A savings and loan association shall obtain and maintain insurance of its shares with the federal deposit insurance corporation or its successor as provided by the “Federal Deposit Insurance Act”, 12 U.S.C. sec. 1811 et seq., and any amendments thereto. Notice of any such actions by associations shall be submitted to the division. The commissioner, […]

§ 11-41-117.5. Insurance of Obligations

A savings and loan association shall obtain and maintain insurance of its obligations, including accounts, with the federal deposit insurance corporation or its successor. An association is further authorized to obtain and maintain insurance of any obligations, including accounts, or portions thereof not otherwise insured pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, with any federal […]

§ 11-41-118. Loans – Investment in Notes or Bonds

Savings and loan associations are authorized: To make such loans and advances of credit and purchases of obligations representing loans and advances of credit as are eligible for insurance by the federal housing administrator and to obtain such insurance; To make such loans, secured by real property or leasehold, as the federal housing administrator insures […]