32-2-431. Voluntary liquidation and settlement. - Montana Statutes

     32-2-431. Voluntary liquidation and settlement. (1) With the consent of the department, an association organized under the laws of and doing business in this state, may, if the members or stockholders consider it advisable, go into liquidation. For the purpose of so doing it may, at any regular or called meeting of the members or stockholders, adopt a resolution declaring that the association intends to go into liquidation and discontinue business as a building and loan association. A copy of the resolution, duly certified by the president and secretary of the association, under the seal thereof, shall be transmitted to the department within 10 days after its passage. The department shall then issue its certificate reciting that the resolution has been filed in its office and that the association is in liquidation.
     (2) After the filing of the notice, it is unlawful for the association to issue stock or to loan or advance its money to members, shareholders, or any other person.
     (3) All of the income and receipts of the association in excess of the actual expense of managing it shall be applied to pay off first the indebtedness and the savings accounts in the association upon which no loans have been made, the same to be paid pro rata, then to pay off the capital stock in the association, pro rata.
     (4) The board of directors of the association in liquidation may adopt those rules and make those orders which are just and equitable for the sale and disposition of all property held by the association and for the division of the assets of the association.
     (5) The association in liquidation may be examined by and shall be under the supervision of the department.

     History: En. Sec. 47, Ch. 57, L. 1927; re-en. Sec. 6355.48, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 85, Ch. 431, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 7-149; amd. Sec. 21, Ch. 5, L. 1983.