(a) The proposed transferee seeking approval to acquire control of a state trust company or a person that controls a state trust company must file with the Bank Commissioner:

(1) An application in the form prescribed by the commissioner;

(2) The filing fee in an amount not less than one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) and not more than three thousand dollars ($3,000), as set by regulations issued by the commissioner;

(3) All information required by regulation or that the commissioner requires in a particular application as necessary to an informed decision to approve or reject the proposed acquisition.

(b) If the proposed transferee includes any group of individuals or entities acting in concert, the information required by the commissioner may be required of each member of the group.

(c) If the proposed transferee is not an Arkansas resident, an Arkansas company, or an out-of-state company qualified to do business in this state, a written consent to service of process on a resident of this state in any action or suit arising out of or connected with the proposed acquisition.

(d) The proposed transferee must give public notice of the application, its date of filing, and the identity of each participant, in the form specified by the commissioner, through publication by one (1) insertion in a newspaper published in the City of Little Rock and having a general and substantially statewide circulation, promptly after the commissioner accepts the application as complete.