New York Laws
Article 2 - Department of Financial Services; Superintendent of Financial Services; Supervisory and Regulatory Powers
14 - Additional Powers of the Superintendent.

(a) To approve organization certificates and articles of association,
private bankers' certificates and applications of foreign corporations
for licenses to do business in this state, as provided in this article.
(b) To determine the purposes for which and the extent to which
capital notes or debentures shall be considered and treated as capital
stock of corporate banking organizations; but capital notes or
debentures shall not be considered or treated as capital stock for the
purposes of sections one hundred ten and one hundred eleven of this
chapter.
(c) To grant permission to a trust company, including a national bank,
to establish one or more common trust funds upon application and after
inquiry concerning the qualifications of such trust company to maintain
and manage the same, and to regulate the conduct and management of any
common trust fund and for such purpose, but not by way of limitation of
the foregoing power, to prescribe (1) the records and accounts to be
kept of such common trust funds; (2) the procedure to be followed in
adding moneys to or withdrawing moneys or investments from any such
common trust fund; (3) the methods and standards to be employed in
determining the value of such common trust funds and of the assets and
investments thereof; (4) the maximum amount of moneys of any estate,
trust or fund which may be invested in any common trust fund; and (5)
the maximum proportionate share of any such common trust fund which may
be apportioned to any estate, trust or fund; and in connection with such
powers to classify the corporations maintaining such common trust funds
according to the population of the city, town or village in which the
principal offices of such corporations are respectively located and to
prescribe the minimum total of any such common trust fund and the
permissible limits of investment therein in accordance with such
classification.
(cc) To approve the incorporation by or on behalf of trust companies
and national banks with trust powers of a mutual trust investment
company to form a medium for the common investment of funds held by
trust companies, including national banks, acting as executors,
administrators, guardians, inter-vivos or testamentary trustees or
committees or conservators either alone or with individual
co-fiduciaries, and any amendments of the certificate of incorporation
of such mutual trust investment company, and to regulate the conduct and
management of such mutual trust investment company and for such purpose,
but not by way of limitation of the foregoing power, to prescribe (1)
the records and accounts to be kept by such mutual trust investment
company; (2) the procedure to be followed in the sale or redemption of
stocks or shares therein; (3) the methods and standards to be employed
in determining the value of such shares in the mutual trust investment
company and the assets and investments thereof; and (4) the maximum
proportionate shares of any such mutual trust investment company which
may be apportioned or sold to any one trust company or national bank.
(d) To authorize a bank or a trust company to invest in the capital
stock of, or any other equity interest in, any corporation, partnership,
unincorporated association, limited liability company, or other entity

not included among the corporations or other entities for which
investment in the capital stock or other equity interest is expressly
authorized by this chapter.
(e) To authorize a savings bank to invest in the capital stock,
capital notes and debentures of a trust company or other corporation, as
provided in article six of this chapter.
(f) To authorize a savings and loan association to invest in the
capital stock, capital notes and debentures of a trust company or other
corporation, as provided in article ten of this chapter.
(g) To prescribe from time to time: (1) the rates of interest which
may be paid on deposits with any banking organization and with any
branch or agency of a foreign banking corporation; and (2) the rates of
dividends which may be paid on shares of any savings and loan
association or credit union, and to prohibit the payment of such
interest or such dividends by any banking organization or by any branch
of a foreign banking corporation. Interest or dividend rates so
prescribed need not be uniform.
(h) To limit and regulate withdrawals of deposits or shares from any
banking organization, if the superintendent shall find that such
limitation and regulation are necessary because of the existence of
unusual and extraordinary circumstances.
(i) To prescribe from time to time reserves against deposits to be
maintained by banks and trust companies pursuant to article three of
this chapter; provided that no reserve requirement imposed against
either time or demand deposits shall require any bank or trust company
to maintain total reserves in an amount greater than it would be
required to maintain if it were at the time a member of the federal
reserve system; and provided further, however, that a bank or trust
company not a member of the federal reserve system may be authorized to
maintain total reserves against deposits in an amount lower than the
reserves required by article three of this chapter to be maintained,
either in individual cases or by general regulations on such basis as
the superintendent may deem reasonable or appropriate in view of the
character of the business transacted by such bank or trust company.
(j) To grant permission to officers, directors, clerks or employees of
banks and trust companies to engage in the issue, flotation,
underwriting, public sale or distribution at wholesale or retail, or
through syndicate participation of stocks, bonds or other similar
securities, and to revoke such permission, both as provided in this
chapter.
(k) To prescribe the methods and standards to be used (1) in making
the examinations provided for in this chapter, and (2) in valuing the
assets of banking organizations.
(l) To prescribe the form and contents of periodical reports of
condition to be rendered to the superintendent by banks, trust
companies, private bankers and branches of foreign banking corporations,
and the manner of publication of such reports.
(m) To postpone or omit the calling for and rendering of reports
provided for by this chapter if the superintendent shall find that such
postponement or omission is necessary because of the existence of
unusual and extraordinary circumstances.
(n) To define what is an unsafe manner of conducting the business of
banking organizations.
(o) To define what is a safe or unsafe condition of a banking
organization.
(p) To make variations from the requirements of this chapter, provided
such variations are in harmony with the spirit of the law, if the

superintendent shall find that such variations are necessary because of
the existence of unusual and extraordinary circumstances.
(q) To establish safe and sound methods of banking and safeguard the
interests of depositors, creditors, shareholders and stockholders
generally in times of emergency.
(qq) To permit any banking organization, national banking association,
federal mutual savings bank, federal savings and loan association and
federal credit union to offer graduated payment mortgages which shall
conform to the provisions of section two hundred seventy-nine of the
real property law.
(s) To permit authorized lenders, as defined by section two hundred
eighty or two hundred eighty-a of the real property law, to offer
reverse mortgage loans which shall conform to the provisions of section
two hundred eighty or two hundred eighty-a of the real property law.

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