(a) If the Commissioner determines that a financial institution is engaging, has engaged, or may engage in an unsafe or unsound practice in the operation of the financial institution (“unsafe or unsound practice”), or that the financial institutions is engaging, has engaged, or may engage in a violation of a law, regulation, rule, condition, order, or request of the Commissioner, or any written agreement entered into with the Commissioner (“violation”), the Commissioner may conduct an investigation of the financial institution and issue and serve upon the institution a notice of charges.
(b) The Commissioner may request that an investigation, or portion of an investigation, be conducted by a District, state, or federal law enforcement agency.
(June 9, 2001, D.C. Law 13-308, § 112, 48 DCR 3244.)
Structure District of Columbia Code
Title 26 - Banks and Other Financial Institutions
Chapter 5B - Administration of the Banking Code
Subchapter IV - Investigation, Examination, and Enforcement Powers of the Commissioner
§ 26–551.10. Examinations of financial institutions
§ 26–551.11. Reports on financial institutions
§ 26–551.12. Initiation of formal investigation of a financial institution
§ 26–551.13. Notice of charges; hearing; final order
§ 26–551.14. Notification of other government agencies
§ 26–551.15. Modification or rescission of orders
§ 26–551.16. Cease and desist order
§ 26–551.17. Temporary cease and desist order
§ 26–551.18. Confidentiality of information
§ 26–551.19. Enforcement of Department order, subpoena, or notice of charges