Any association may convert itself into a federal association in accordance with the provisions of the Home Owners Loan Act of 1933, as amended, upon a vote of fifty-one percent or more of the votes of the members cast at an annual meeting or at any special meeting called for the purpose. A copy of the minutes of the proceedings of the meeting of the members, verified by the affidavit of the secretary or an assistant secretary, shall be filed with the supervisor within ten days after the meeting. A sworn copy of the proceedings of the meeting, when so filed, shall be presumptive evidence of the holding and action of the meeting. Within three months after the meeting, the association shall take action in the manner prescribed by the laws of the United States to make it a federal association. There shall be filed with the supervisor a copy of the charter issued to the federal association by the federal home loan bank board or a certificate showing the organization of the association as a federal association, certified by the secretary or assistant secretary of the federal home loan bank board. A similar copy of the charter or certificate shall be filed by the association with the state corporation commission [public regulation commission]. The failure to file these instruments, either with the supervisor or the secretary of state, does not affect the validity of the conversion. Upon the grant of any association of a charter by the federal home loan bank board, the association receiving the charter ceases to be an association incorporated under the Savings and Loan Act and is no longer subject to the supervision and control of the supervisor. Upon the conversion of any association into a federal association, the corporate existence of the association does not terminate, but the federal association shall be deemed to be a continuation of the entity of the association converted and all property of the converted association, including its rights, titles and interests in and to all property of whatever kind, whether real, personal or mixed, and things in action, and every right, privilege, interest and asset of value or benefit then existing or pertaining to it, or which would inure to it, shall immediately by operation of law and without any conveyance or transfer and without any further act or deed remain and be vested in and continue to be the property of the federal association into which the association has converted itself, and the federal association shall have, hold and enjoy them in its own right to the same extent as they were possessed, held and enjoyed by the converting association, and the federal association, as of the time of the taking effect of the conversion, shall continue to have and succeed to all the rights, obligations and relations of the converting association. All pending actions and other judicial proceedings to which the converting association is a party shall not abate or discontinue by reason of the conversion, but may be prosecuted to final judgment, order or decree in the same manner as if the conversion had not been made and the federal association resulting from the conversion may continue the action in its corporate name as a federal association, and any judgment, order or decree may be rendered for or against it which might have been rendered for or against the converting association. Any association or corporation which has, prior to the effective date of the Savings and Loan Act, converted itself into a federal association under the provisions of the Home Owners Loan Act of 1933 and has received a charter from the federal home loan bank board shall be recognized by the courts of this state to the same extent as if the conversion had taken place under the provisions of this section if a copy of the federal charter or certificate showing the organization of the association as a federal association has been filed with the supervisor. All such conversions are confirmed, and all obligations of an association which has converted shall continue as valid obligations of the federal association, and the title to all of the property of the association shall be deemed to have continued and vested, as of the date of issuance of the federal charter, in the federal association as if the conversion had taken place pursuant to this section.

History: 1953 Comp., § 48-15-138, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 61, § 94.

Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.

Laws 1998, ch. 108, § 80 provided that references to the state corporation commission be construed as references to the public regulation commission.

Cross references. — For the federal Home Owners Loan Act of 1933, see 12 U.S.C. § 1461.

For meaning of "supervisor", see 58-10-2J NMSA 1978.

Effective dates. — Laws 1967, ch. 61, § 101, made the Savings and Loan Act effective on July 1, 1967.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 10 Am. Jur. 2d Banks §§ 275, 282.

9 C.J.S. Banks and Banking §§ 495, 669, 670; 12 C.J.S. Building and Loan Associations § 117.