Section 386-A:4 Petition.


   I. A petition requesting approval of the proposed incorporation shall be filed with the bank commissioner. The petition shall be upon such form as may be prescribed by the bank commissioner and shall contain all the information required by such form, signed and verified under oath by the incorporators, to which shall be annexed a signed duplicate of the articles of agreement. An examination fee of $1,500 shall be paid when the petition is filed. Sums collected under this section shall be payable to the state treasurer as restricted revenue and credited to the appropriation for the bank commissioner. The bank commissioner shall examine each petition and if he finds that it is duly completed, he shall forthwith refer the petition to the board of trust company incorporation. The bank commissioner shall then make such investigation of each petition as he considers expedient, for the purpose of more fully informing the board. Said board may, upon request of any interested person or corporation or at its own discretion, order a public hearing, or may approve said petition without a hearing. The petitioners shall cause to be published such notices relating to the petition as the board may order.
   II. The commissioner shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to the petition required by paragraph I.

Source. 1965, 279:1. 1973, 504:3. 1977, 563:6. 1985, 55:12. 1988, 220:8, eff. June 28, 1988.