Sec. 182.003. APPLICATION FOR STATE TRUST COMPANY CHARTER; STANDARDS FOR APPROVAL. (a) An application for a state trust company charter must be made under oath and in the form required by the banking commissioner. The application must be supported by information, records, and opinions of counsel that the banking commissioner requires. The application must be accompanied by all charter fees and deposits required by statute or rule.

(b) The banking commissioner shall grant a state trust company charter only on proof satisfactory to the banking commissioner that public convenience and advantage will be promoted by the establishment of the state trust company. In determining whether public convenience and advantage will be promoted, the banking commissioner shall consider the convenience of the public to be served and whether:

(1) the organizational and capital structure and amount of initial capitalization is adequate for the business and location;

(2) the anticipated volume and nature of business indicates a reasonable probability of success and profitability based on the market sought to be served;

(3) the proposed officers, directors, and managers, or managing participants, as a group have sufficient fiduciary experience, ability, standing, competence, trustworthiness, and integrity to justify a belief that the state trust company will operate in compliance with law and that success of the state trust company is probable;

(4) each principal shareholder or participant has sufficient experience, ability, standing, competence, trustworthiness, and integrity to justify a belief that the state trust company will be free from improper or unlawful influence or interference with respect to the state trust company's operation in compliance with law; and

(5) the organizers are acting in good faith.

(c) The organizers bear the burden of proof to establish that public convenience and advantage will be promoted by the establishment of the state trust company. The failure of an applicant to furnish required information, opinions of counsel, and other material, or the required fee, is considered an abandonment of the application.

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, Sec. 7.16(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1999.