The following fees must accompany an application presented to the state banking board, state credit union board, or commissioner and must be paid by the commissioner into the financial institutions regulatory fund:

Terms Used In North Dakota Code 6-01-17.1

  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Bank: means any national bank, national banking association, corporation, state bank, state banking association, or savings bank, whether organized under the laws of this state or of the United States, engaged in the business of banking. See North Dakota Code 6-01-02
  • Banking: means the business of receiving deposits, making loans, discounting commercial paper, issuing drafts, traveler's checks, and similar instruments, handling and making collections, cashing checks and drafts, and buying and selling exchange. See North Dakota Code 6-01-02
  • Banking institution: means any bank, trust company, or bank and trust company organized under the laws of this state. See North Dakota Code 6-01-02
  • board: when used in this title includes the state banking board and the state credit union board. See North Dakota Code 6-01-03
  • Branch: means a place of business where deposits are received, checks paid, or money lent as a result of a bank that was merged into another bank pursuant to an interstate merger. See North Dakota Code 6-01-02
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of financial institutions. See North Dakota Code 6-01-02
  • Credit union: means a cooperative, nonprofit association organized for the purposes of encouraging thrift among its members, creating a source of credit at a fair and reasonable rate of interest, and providing an opportunity for its members to improve their economic and social condition. See North Dakota Code 6-01-02
  • Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) Source: OCC
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • merge: means the merging or consolidation of two or more banks including the purchase of all or substantially all of the assets and assumption of liabilities of a bank, facility, or branch. See North Dakota Code 6-01-02
  • Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Trust company: means any corporation formed for the purpose of transacting business as an annuity, safe deposit, surety, or trust company. See North Dakota Code 6-01-02

1.    For a certificate of authority to organize a banking association, a fee of five thousand dollars, paid by the applicants.

2.    A banking association’s application for authority to remove its business to some place within the state other than the town in which it is presently located and to change its name, a fee of two thousand five hundred dollars.

3.    National bank conversion to a state bank, a fee of two thousand five hundred dollars.

4.    Application by two or more banks to merge or consolidate, a fee of one thousand five hundred dollars.

5.    Application by a person to sell, dispose, or purchase an association, banking institution, or holding company, a fee of five hundred dollars unless a hearing is held before the board in which case the fee is two thousand dollars.

6.    A banking association’s application to establish and operate a separate facility, a fee of one thousand five hundred dollars. A banking institution that discontinues a facility established for the purpose of providing educational opportunities to a high school is entitled to a refund of any application fee paid.

7.    A banking association’s application to establish customer electronic funds transfer centers, a fee not to exceed five hundred dollars.

8.    For a certificate of authority to organize an annuity, safe deposit, surety, or trust company, a fee of five thousand dollars.

9.    A banking association’s application for authority to exercise trust powers, a fee of one thousand five hundred dollars.

10.    Application to organize a credit union, a fee of three hundred dollars, paid by the applicants.

11.    Application for a credit union to establish a branch, a fee of three hundred dollars.

12.    Application by a credit union to expand its field of membership, a fee of one hundred fifty dollars.

13.    Application by a federal credit union to convert to a state credit union, a fee of three hundred dollars.

14.    For a certificate of authority to organize a savings and loan association, a fee of five thousand dollars.

15.    A savings and loan association’s application to establish and operate a branch office, a fee of one thousand five hundred dollars.

16.    A trust company’s application or notification to establish an operating subsidiary or branch office, a fee of five hundred dollars.

17.    Application by two or more credit unions to merge, a fee of three hundred dollars.

The commissioner may cause a certified transcript to be prepared for any hearing conducted on an application. The costs for the original and up to six copies of the transcript must be paid by the applicant.