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 Oklahoma Statutes (Last Updated: September 18, 2014)
 Title 6. BANKS AND TRUST COMPANIES

  § 6-1017. Voluntary relinquishment of trust powers.  

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  • A.  1.  Banks.  Any bank desiring to surrender its right to exercise the powers granted pursuant to this article in order to relieve itself of the necessity of complying with the requirements of this article, or to have cancelled or returned to it any security pledged or purchased pursuant to Section 1004 of this title, may file with the Commissioner a certified copy of a resolution of its board of directors signifying such desire.

    2.  Upon receipt of such resolution, the Commissioner, upon satisfaction that such bank has been relieved in accordance with state law of all duties as trustee, executor, administrator, registrar of stocks and bonds, guardian of estates, assignee, receiver, or other fiduciary, under court, private or other appointment previously accepted under authority of this article, may issue to such bank a certificate certifying that such bank is no longer authorized to exercise the powers granted by this article.

    3.  Upon the issuance of such a certificate by the Commissioner, such banks:

    a.shall no longer be subject to the provisions of this article or the regulations of the Board made pursuant thereto,

    b.shall be entitled to cancel or have returned to it any security pledged or purchased pursuant to the provisions of Section 1004 of this title, and

    c.shall not exercise thereafter any of the powers granted by this article without first applying for and obtaining a new permit to exercise such powers pursuant to the provisions of this Code.

    B.  Trust companies.  Any trust company desiring to retire from business specified in this article shall furnish to the Commissioner satisfactory evidence of its release and discharge from all obligations and trusts provided for in this article.  The Commissioner shall thereupon examine, or cause to be examined, such trust company, and, if the Commissioner is satisfied after such examination that such trust company has discharged all its obligations and trusts, the Commissioner shall revoke its certificate of authority and authorize the cancellation of, or return, of any security pledged or purchased pursuant to the provisions of Section 1004 of this title.

Added by Laws 1965, c. 161, § 1017.  Amended by Laws 1998, c. 246, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1998; Laws 2005, c. 48, § 15, eff. Nov. 1, 2005.