Corporations may be formed within the District of Columbia for the purposes hereinafter mentioned in the following manner: Any number of natural persons, citizens of the United States, not less than 25, may associate themselves together to form a company for the purpose of carrying on, in the District of Columbia, any 1 of the 3 classes of business herein specified, to wit: (1) a safe deposit, trust, loan, and mortgage business; (2) a title insurance, loan, and mortgage business; or (3) a security, guarantee, indemnity, loan, and mortgage business; provided, that the capital stock of any of said companies shall not be less than $1,000,000 except as otherwise provided in § 31-2502.13, and that any of said companies may also do a storage business when their capital stock amounts to the sum of not less than $1,200,000.
(Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1303, ch. 854, § 715; Apr. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 121, Pub. L. 89-399, § 1(b); Apr. 9, 1997, D.C. Law 11-255, § 24(a), 44 DCR 1271.)
1981 Ed., § 26-401.
1973 Ed., § 26-301.
This section is referenced in § 26-702.01, § 26-710, § 26-1304, § 26-1309, § 26-1310, and § 26-1313.
Pursuant to Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1992, effective January 20, 1993, unless another date was designated by the Mayor under Sec V of the Plan, the D.C. Office of Banking and Financial Institutions (“OBFI”) is hereby transferred from the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development (“DMED”) control center to a separate OBFI control center/responsibility center. OBFI will continue to be administered by the Superintendent and will remain a part of the economic development cluster reporting to the Mayor.
[Reserved].
Structure District of Columbia Code
Title 26 - Banks and Other Financial Institutions
Chapter 13 - Trust, Loan, Mortgage, Safe Deposit and Title Corporations
§ 26–1301. Manner of formation; purposes
§ 26–1304. Organization certificate; execution; contents
§ 26–1305. Charter of incorporation — Power of Council to grant or refuse
§ 26–1306. Charter of incorporation — Notice of application
§ 26–1309. Powers of companies; liability as trustee
§ 26–1310. Appointment as fiduciary
§ 26–1311.01. Automatic substitution of fiduciaries
§ 26–1312. Stock, property, and liability to be security when fiduciary
§ 26–1313. Existing companies; certificate of intention to comply with provisions
§ 26–1314. Real property held and conveyed by companies
§ 26–1315. Duration of charter
§ 26–1317. Capital stock — Calls; sale on failure to pay money subscribed
§ 26–1318. Annual reports — Publication; contents; verification
§ 26–1319. Annual reports — Liability of directors or trustees
§ 26–1320. Wilful false swearing; misappropriation
§ 26–1321. Stock deemed personal estate; transfer; contents of certificates
§ 26–1322. Liability of stockholders
§ 26–1323. Payment of stock to be in money only; exception
§ 26–1324. Election of, and management of company by, directors or trustees
§ 26–1325. Officers; security authorized
§ 26–1326. Power to make bylaws; purposes thereof
§ 26–1327. Liability of directors or trustees on declaration of dividends — Conditions
§ 26–1328. Liability of directors or trustees on declaration of dividends — Exemption
§ 26–1329. Directors or trustees personally liable when liabilities exceed assets
§ 26–1330. Fiduciary not liable as stockholder; liability of estate and funds
§ 26–1331. Increase or decrease of capital stock
§ 26–1332. Copy of certificate as evidence
§ 26–1333. Security required for performance of fiduciary duties; liability thereon
§ 26–1334. Powers of probate court
§ 26–1335. Compliance required of foreign corporations or companies
§ 26–1336. Right of Congress to amend or repeal chapter; remedies preserved