Section 34-3-810 - National bank may become state bank; procedure(A) Subject to approval by the board, any banking corporation organized under the laws of the United States or under the laws of any other state and doing business in this State may become an incorporated bank of this State with all the powers and subject to all the obligations and duties of banks incorporated under the laws of this State, provided such banking corporation has authority by virtue of the laws of the United States to dissolve its organization as a national banking corporation or of the laws of the other state to dissolve its organization as a state banking corporation of such state.(B) A national banking corporation or a banking corporation of another state desiring to become such an incorporated bank under the laws of this State shall proceed in the following manner: (1) file an application of conversion to a state bank with the board;(2) take such action in the manner prescribed or authorized by the laws of the United States or other such state as shall make its dissolution as a national banking corporation or as a state banking corporation effective at a specified future date; and(3) A majority of its directors shall thereafter and before the time when its dissolution becomes effective execute under their hands and seals in duplicate, upon the authority of a resolution adopted by the owners of at least two-thirds of its capital stock at a meeting held after ten days' notice thereof given to each stockholder by registered mail, a certificate setting forth the following facts:(a) its name and place of business as a national banking association or a state banking association and the name that it proposes to use as its corporate name after becoming a banking corporation under the laws of this State;(b) the principal place of business in South Carolina for the state banking association;(c) the amount of its capital stock and the number of shares into which it is divided and the par value of each;(d) the names of its directors and of its officers at the date of its dissolution as a national bank and who will constitute its directors and officers as a state bank; and(e) the date upon which its dissolution as a national banking association or state banking association shall become effective and upon which date it shall commence business as a bank under the laws of this State.(C) Such certificate in duplicate must be thereupon lodged with the Secretary of State, who shall endorse on the certificate in duplicate the date of its filing in his office. One duplicate of the certificate must be filed in the office of the Secretary of State and the other so endorsed must be issued to the bank and be recorded in the office of the register of deeds in the county in which the principal place of business of the bank is located.Amended by 2021 S.C. Acts, Act No. 30 (SB 467),s 6, eff. 5/6/2021.1926 (34) 945; 1932 Code Section 7834; 1942 Code Section 7866; 1952 Code Section 8-121; 1962 Code Section 8-121.