North Carolina General Statutes
Article 24 - Trust Companies and Interstate Trust Business.
§ 53-333 - Application for State trust company charter and permission to incorporate State trust company.

53-333. Application for State trust company charter and permission to incorporate State trust company.
(a) An application for a State trust company charter and permission to incorporate the State trust company shall be made to the Commissioner in the form required by the Commissioner and shall be supported by information, data, and records that the Commissioner requires. The application shall be accompanied by the fee set by the Commissioner by rule.
(b) Upon receipt of the application, the Commissioner shall at once conduct an examination of all relevant facts connected with the formation of the proposed State trust company. The Commissioner may consider the following factors:
(1) The proposed market or markets to be served;
(2) Whether the proposed organizational and capital structure and the amount of initial capital appear adequate in relation to the proposed business and market or markets;
(3) Whether the anticipated volume and nature of business indicate a reasonable probability of success and profitability based on the market or markets proposed to be served;
(4) Whether the proposed officers and directors, as a group, have sufficient experience, ability, standing, competence, trustworthiness, and integrity to justify a belief that the proposed State trust company will be free from improper or unlawful influence and otherwise will operate in compliance with law, and that success of the proposed State trust company is reasonably probable; and
(5) Whether the proposed name of the proposed State trust company is likely to mislead the public as to its character or purpose or is the same as a name already adopted by an existing bank, savings association, or trust institution in this State, or so similar thereto as to be likely to mislead the public.
(c) The failure of an applicant to furnish required information, data, other material, or the required fee within 30 days after a request may be considered an abandonment of the application. (2001-263, s. 1.)

Structure North Carolina General Statutes

North Carolina General Statutes

Chapter 53 - Regulation of Financial Services

Article 24 - Trust Companies and Interstate Trust Business.

§ 53-301 - Definitions.

§ 53-302 - Title and purposes.

§ 53-303 - Companies authorized to engage in trust business.

§ 53-304 - Activities not requiring a charter, license, or approval.

§ 53-305 - Trust business of State trust institution.

§ 53-306 - Trust business of out-of-state trust institution.

§ 53-307 - Trust business of foreign trust institution.

§ 53-308 - Name of trust institution.

§ 53-309 - Trust deposits of authorized trust institutions.

§ 53-310 - Offices of State trust companies.

§ 53-311 - State trust company principal office.

§ 53-312 - Trust offices; representative trust offices.

§ 53-313 - Out-of-state trust offices and representative trust offices.

§ 53-314 - Trust business through a branch or trust office.

§ 53-315 - Establishing an interstate trust office.

§ 53-316 - Acquiring an interstate trust office.

§ 53-317 - Requirement of notice.

§ 53-318 - Action on notice.

§ 53-319 - Additional trust offices; representative trust offices.

§ 53-320 - Examinations; periodic reports; cooperative agreements; assessment of fees.

§ 53-321 - Enforcement.

§ 53-322 - Notice of transactions that cause a change in control.

§ 53-323 - Foreign trust institution application for trust office or representative trust office.

§ 53-324 - Conditions for approval.

§ 53-325 - Additional trust offices and representative trust offices.

§ 53-326 - Examinations; periodic reports; cooperative agreements; assessment of fees.

§ 53-327 - Enforcement.

§ 53-328 - Notice of transactions that cause a change in control.

§ 53-329 - International agreements.

§ 53-330 - Title and purposes.

§ 53-331 - Organization and powers of State trust company.

§ 53-332 - Articles of incorporation of State trust company.

§ 53-333 - Application for State trust company charter and permission to incorporate State trust company.

§ 53-334 - Notice and investigation of charter application.

§ 53-335 - Decision on charter application and hearing.

§ 53-336 - Issuance of charter.

§ 53-337 - Required initial capital.

§ 53-338 - Subordinated notes or debentures.

§ 53-339 - Application of laws relating to general business corporations.

§ 53-340 - Investment in State trust company facilities.

§ 53-341 - Other real estate.

§ 53-342 - Securities and other investments.

§ 53-343 - Prohibited distributions, acquisitions, liens, or pledges.

§ 53-344 - Subsidiaries.

§ 53-345 - Engaging in commerce prohibited.

§ 53-346 - Lending and lease financing; conversion to State bank.

§ 53-347 - Acquisition of control.

§ 53-348 - Application regarding acquisition of control.

§ 53-349 - Decision on acquisition of control.

§ 53-350 - Appeal.

§ 53-351 - Report of changes in chief executive officer or directors.

§ 53-352 - Board of directors.

§ 53-353 - Required board meetings.

§ 53-354 - Officers.

§ 53-355 - Certain criminal offenses.

§ 53-356 - Responsibility of directors.

§ 53-357 - Record keeping.

§ 53-358 - Bonding requirements; reports of apparent crime.

§ 53-359 - Merger, share exchange, or asset transfer authority.

§ 53-360 - Merger, share exchange, or asset transfer application.

§ 53-361 - Notice and investigation of merger, share exchange, or asset transfer; decision, hearing, and appeal.

§ 53-362 - Appraisal rights of shareholders in mergers, share exchanges, or asset transfers.

§ 53-363 - Private trust companies.

§ 53-364 - Requirements to apply for and maintain status as a private trust company.

§ 53-365 - Conversion to public trust company.

§ 53-366 - Applicability of other laws to authorized trust institutions; status of State trust company.

§ 53-367 - Commissioner shall have supervision over authorized trust institutions and shall examine.

§ 53-368 - Assessment of State trust companies.

§ 53-369 - Administrative orders; penalties for violation; increase of equity capital.

§ 53-370 - Notice and opportunity for hearing.

§ 53-371 - Removal of directors, officers, and employees.

§ 53-372 - Required vote of shareholders.

§ 53-373 - Corporate procedure.

§ 53-374 - Authority to liquidate; publication.

§ 53-375 - Examination and reports.

§ 53-376 - Unclaimed property.

§ 53-377 - When Commissioner may take charge.

§ 53-378 - Directors may act.

§ 53-379 - Notice of seizure; bar to attachment of liens.

§ 53-380 - Notice to trust institutions, corporations, and others holding assets; existing liens.

§ 53-381 - Permission to resume business.

§ 53-382 - Remedy for seizure; answer to notice; injunction; appeal; and motions.

§ 53-383 - Collection of debts and claims; Commissioner succeeds to all property of the State trust company.

§ 53-384 - Bond of the Commissioner; surety; condition; minimum penalty.

§ 53-385 - Inventory.

§ 53-386 - Notice and time for filing claims.

§ 53-387 - Power to reject claims; notice; affidavit of service; action on claims.

§ 53-388 - List of claims presented, copies, and proviso.

§ 53-389 - Declaration of dividends; order of preference in distribution.

§ 53-390 - Deposit of funds collected.

§ 53-391 - Employment of counsel, accountants, and other experts; compensation.

§ 53-392 - Unclaimed dividends held in trust.

§ 53-393 - Action by the Commissioner following full settlement.

§ 53-394 - Annual report of the Commissioner; items included; reports of condition of State trust companies.

§ 53-395 - Compensation of the Commissioner's office.

§ 53-396 - Exclusive method of liquidation.

§ 53-397 - Disposition of books and records.

§ 53-398 - Destruction of books and records.

§ 53-399 - Petition for new trustee.

§ 53-400 - Report to the Secretary of State.

§ 53-401 - Provisions for conservator; duties and powers.

§ 53-402 - Examination.

§ 53-403 - Termination of conservatorship.

§ 53-404 - Rights and liabilities of conservator.

§ 53-405 - Naming of conservator not liquidation.

§ 53-406 - Sale of assets by board of jeopardized State trust company.

§ 53-407 - Authority to act as disbursing agent.

§ 53-408 - Payment to creditors.

§ 53-409 - Issuance of preferred shares by jeopardized trust company.

§ 53-410 - Commissioner to act under authority of the Commission.

§ 53-411 - Rules.

§ 53-412 - Commissioner hearings; appeals.

§ 53-413 - Civil enforcement.

§ 53-414 - Cancellation of charter.

§ 53-415 - Severability.

§ 53-420 - Affiliate transfers authorized; procedure.

§ 53-421 - Objection to affiliate transfer.

§ 53-422 - Effect of affiliate transfer.

§ 53-423 - Trust institution as agent.

§ 53-424 - Construction.