Charter amended - procedure - notice - duty of director - appeal.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 362.325
in effect362.325. Charter amended — procedure — notice — duty of director — appeal. — 1. Any bank or trust company may, at any time, and in any amount, increase or, with the approval of the director, reduce its capital stock (as to its authorized but unissued shares, its issued shares, and its capital stock as represented by such issued shares), including a reduction of capital stock by reverse stock split, change its name, change or extend its business or the length of its corporate life, avail itself of the privileges and provisions of this chapter or otherwise change its articles of agreement in any way not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, with the consent of the persons holding a majority of the stock of the bank or trust company, which consent shall be obtained at an annual meeting or at a special meeting of the shareholders called for that purpose. A bank or trust company may, but shall not be obligated to, issue a certificate for a fractional share, and, by action of its board of directors, may in lieu thereof, pay cash equal to the value of the fractional share.
2. The meeting shall be called and notice given as provided in section 362.044 .
3. If, at any time and place specified in the notice, stockholders shall appear in person or by proxy, in number representing not less than a majority of all the shares of stock of the bank or trust company, they shall organize by choosing one of the directors as chairman of the meeting, and a suitable person for secretary, and proceed to a vote of those present in person or by proxy.
4. If, upon a canvass of the vote at the meeting, it is ascertained that the proposition has carried, it shall be so declared by the president of the meeting and the proceedings entered of record.
5. When the full amount of the proposed increase has been bona fide subscribed and paid in cash to the board of directors of the bank or trust company or the change has been duly authorized, then a statement of the proceedings, showing a compliance with the provisions of this chapter, the increase of capital actually subscribed and paid up or the change shall be made out, signed and verified by the affidavit of the president and countersigned by the cashier, or secretary, and such statement shall be acknowledged by the president and one certified copy filed in the public records of the division of finance.
6. Upon the filing of the certified copy the director shall promptly satisfy himself or herself that there has been a compliance in good faith with all the requirements of the law relating to the increase, decrease or change, and when he or she is so satisfied he or she shall issue a certificate that the bank or trust company has complied with the law made and provided for the increase or decrease of capital stock, and the amount to which the capital stock has been increased or decreased or for the change in the length of its corporate life or any other change provided for in this section. Thereupon, the capital stock of the bank or trust company shall be increased or decreased to the amount specified in the certificate or the length of the corporate life of the bank shall be changed or other authorized change made as specified in the certificate. The certificate, or certified copies thereof, shall be taken in all the courts of the state as evidence of the increase, decrease or change.
7. Provided, however, that if the change undertaken by the bank or trust company in its articles of agreement shall provide for the relocation of the bank or trust company in another community, the director shall make or cause to be made an examination to ascertain whether the convenience and needs of the new community wherein the bank desires to locate are such as to justify and warrant the opening of the bank therein and whether the probable volume of business at the new location is sufficient to ensure and maintain the solvency of the bank and the solvency of the then existing banks and trust companies at the location, without endangering the safety of any bank or trust company in the locality as a place of deposit of public and private moneys, and, if the director, as a result of the examination, be not satisfied in the particulars mentioned or either of them, he or she may refuse to issue the certificate applied for, in which event he or she shall forthwith give notice of his or her refusal to the bank applying for the certificate, which if it so desires may, within ten days thereafter, appeal from the refusal to the state banking and savings and loan board.
8. All certificates issued by the director of finance relating to amendments to the charter of any bank shall be provided to the bank or trust company and one certified copy filed in the public records of the division of finance.
9. The board of directors may designate a chief executive officer, and such officer will replace the president for purposes of this section.
(RSMo 1939 § 7973, A.L. 1941 p. 670, A.L. 1955 p. 266, A.L. 1961 p. 143, A.L. 1967 p. 445, A.L. 2000 S.B. 896, A.L. 2001 H.B. 738 merged with S.B. 186, A.L. 2011 H.B. 464) Prior revisions: 1929 § 5378; 1919 § 11761; 1909 § 1108 (1974) Held that "convenience and needs of the community" is a broad term encompassing several other statutory requirements and that the term applies only to the area proposed to be served and not to the area which the bank seeks to move from. Blue Ridge Bank v. State Banking Board (A.), 509 S.W.2d 763.
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