Cal. Financial Code - FIN 3. — ARTICLE 3. Facilities of Insured Foreign (Other State) Banks [1700. - 1705.] | Financial Code - FIN — California

Cal. Financial Code - FIN § 1700. Section 1700.

No provision of this article applies to an insured foreign (other state) bank that maintains a California branch office.

Cal. Financial Code - FIN § 1701. Section 1701.

(a) No insured foreign (other state) bank may establish or maintain an office in this state at which it engages in noncore banking business unless the bank complies with this article and applicable provisions of Article 1 (commencing with Section 1670). (b) (1) No person may establish or maintain an office in this state as representative of an insured foreign (other state) bank unless the bank complies with this article and applicable provisions of Article 1 (commencing with Section 1670). (2) For purposes of this article, if any person establishes or maintains an office in this state as representative of an insured foreign (other state) bank, the insured foreign (other state) bank is deemed to establish and maintain the office as a facility.

Cal. Financial Code - FIN § 1702. Section 1702.

Not less than 30 days before an insured foreign (other state) bank establishes a facility, the bank shall file with the commissioner a report and the appointment required pursuant to Section 1703.

Cal. Financial Code - FIN § 1703. Section 1703.

(a) Not less than 30 days before establishing a facility, an insured foreign (other state) bank shall file with the commissioner, in the form that the commissioner may by regulation or order require, an appointment irrevocably appointing the commissioner and the commissioner’s successor from time to time in office to be the bank’s attorney to receive service of any lawful process in any noncriminal judicial or administrative proceeding against the bank or any of its successors that arises out of the activities in this state of the facility after the appointment has been filed, with the same force and validity as if served personally on the bank or its successors, as the case may be. (b) Any insured foreign (other state) bank that maintains a facility and that has not filed with the commissioner an appointment pursuant to subdivision (a) is deemed by the maintenance of the facility to have appointed the commissioner as its attorney to receive service of any lawful process in any noncriminal judicial or administrative proceeding against the bank or any of its successors that arises out of the activities in this state of the facility, with the same force and validity as if served personally on the bank or its successor, as the case may be. (c) Service may be made on an uninsured foreign (other state) bank that has appointed or is deemed to have appointed the commissioner as its attorney for service of process by leaving a copy of the process at any office of the commissioner. However, the service is not effective unless (1) the party making the service, who may be the commissioner, forthwith sends notice of the service and a copy of the process by registered or certified mail to the bank served at the last address on file with the commissioner for any of the bank’s offices in this state or at its head office, and (2) an affidavit of compliance with this subdivision by the party making the service is filed in the case on or before the return date, if any, or within any further time that the court, in the case of a judicial proceeding, or the administrative agency, in the case of an administrative proceeding, allows.

Cal. Financial Code - FIN § 1704. Section 1704.

Not less than 30 days before an insured foreign (other state) bank relocates a facility, it shall file a report with the commissioner.

Cal. Financial Code - FIN § 1705. Section 1705.

Not less than 30 days before an insured foreign (other state) bank closes a facility, it shall file a report with the commissioner.