(1) Any association may, at any special meeting of the members or stockholders called to consider the action, terminate its existence in accordance with the provisions of this section upon a vote of more than a majority of the total number of votes of members or shareholders eligible to be cast at the meeting.
(2) Upon the vote, three copies of a statement of interest to dissolve, which shall state the vote cast in favor of dissolution, must be filed with the Board, which shall examine the association, and, if it finds that the association is not in an impaired condition, it shall so note, together with its approval of the dissolution, upon all the copies of the certificate of dissolution. The Board shall place a copy in its permanent files, file a copy with the Secretary of State, and return the remaining copy to the parties who filed it.
(3) Upon this approval, the association is dissolved and shall cease to carry on business but nevertheless shall continue as a corporate entity for the sole purpose of paying, satisfying, and discharging existing liabilities and obligations, collecting and distributing assets, and doing all other acts required to adjust, wind up, and dissolve its business and affairs.
(4) The board of directors in office at the time of the vote of dissolution shall act as trustees for the liquidation. The board of directors shall proceed as quickly as may be practicable to wind up the affairs of the association and, to the extent necessary or expedient to that end, shall exercise all the powers of the dissolved association and, without prejudice to the general nature of this authority, may fill vacancies, elect officers, carry out contracts, make new contracts, borrow money, mortgage or pledge property, sell its assets at public or private sale, compromise claims in favor of or against the association, apply assets to the discharge of liabilities, distribute assets either in cash or in kind among savings account members of a mutual association or stockholders of a capital stock association according to their respective prorata interests after paying or adequately providing for the payment of other liabilities, and perform all acts necessary or expedient to the winding up of the association. All deeds or other instruments must be in the name of the association and executed by the president or a vice president and the secretary or an assistant secretary. The board of directors shall also have power to exchange or otherwise dispose of or put in trust all, substantially all, or any part of the assets, upon those terms and conditions and for that consideration as the board of directors may consider reasonable or expedient, and may distribute the consideration or the proceeds, trust receipts, or certificates of beneficial interest among the savings account members of a mutual association or stockholders of a stock association in proportion to their prorata interests. In the absence of fraud, any determination of value made by the board of directors for any of these purposes is conclusive.
(5) The association, during the liquidation of the assets of the association by its board of directors, shall continue to be subject to the supervision of the Board, and the board of directors shall report the progress of the liquidation to the Board as the Board may require. Upon completion of the liquidation, the board of directors shall file with the Board a final report and accounting of the liquidation. The approval of the report by the Board shall operate as a complete and final discharge of the board of directors and each member or stockholder thereof in connection with the liquidation of the association. No dissolution or any action of the board of directors in connection with it shall impair any contract right between the association and any borrower to other person or persons or the vested rights of any member or savings account holder of the association.
HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 124, Section 1.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 34 - Banking, Financial Institutions and Money
Chapter 28 - Savings Associations
Section 34-28-10. Short title of Articles 1 through 10.
Section 34-28-20. Application of the South Carolina Business Corporation Act.
Section 34-28-30. Definitions.
Section 34-28-100. Application for authority to incorporate; action by Board on application.
Section 34-28-110. Name of an association.
Section 34-28-130. Articles of incorporation content; approval by board; amendment.
Section 34-28-150. Opening for business.
Section 34-28-160. Home, corporate, and branch offices; facilities.
Section 34-28-240. Voluntary supervisory stock conversions.
Section 34-28-250. Supervisory case; emergency conversion, reorganization and merger.
Section 34-28-260. Acquisition of majority control over existing stock-owned association.
Section 34-28-270. Dissolution.
Section 34-28-300. Definitions.
Section 34-28-310. Act requiring prior approval of the board.
Section 34-28-320. Acts requiring prior approval of federal authorities.
Section 34-28-330. Savings and loan holding company acquisitions not requiring prior approval.
Section 34-28-340. Applications to the board for approval.
Section 34-28-350. Permissible nondisqualified acquisitions.
Section 34-28-360. Prohibited acquisitions.
Section 34-28-380. Registration of association; reports; regulations.
Section 34-28-390. Penalties and remedies.
Section 34-28-400. Meetings of members or stockholders; voting rights, proxies, quorum requirements.
Section 34-28-410. Access to books and records; confidentiality.
Section 34-28-420. Directors; number; qualifications; meetings.
Section 34-28-430. Indemnity bonds.
Section 34-28-440. Conflict of interest; transactions of officers and directors.
Section 34-28-450. Books, records, and accounting practices.
Section 34-28-500. Powers of associations.
Section 34-28-510. Investment in loans.
Section 34-28-520. Investments in service corporations.
Section 34-28-530. Direct ownership of real estate by associations.
Section 34-28-540. Other investment powers and limitations; reserves and liquidity requirements.
Section 34-28-550. Dealing with successors in interest.
Section 34-28-560. Right to avoid loss.
Section 34-28-570. Maximum loans to one borrower.
Section 34-28-600. Deposit accounts; general conditions.
Section 34-28-610. Married persons and minors.
Section 34-28-630. Powers of attorney on deposit accounts.
Section 34-28-640. Pledge to association of savings accounts in joint tenancy.
Section 34-28-650. Adverse claim to deposit account.
Section 34-28-660. Withdrawal of savings accounts.
Section 34-28-670. Redemption of savings accounts.
Section 34-28-680. Savings accounts as legal investments and security.
Section 34-28-700. Annual and other reports; examinations.
Section 34-28-710. Board may order association to discontinue any illegal practice.
Section 34-28-720. Conservatorship.
Section 34-28-730. Receivership.
Section 34-28-740. False statement affecting credit or standing of association.
Section 34-28-800. Foreign associations.
Section 34-28-810. Federal savings and loan associations.