Wisconsin Statutes 215.73 – Absorption involving stock associations
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Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 215.73
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
- Property: includes real and personal property. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
- Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed; "year" alone means "year of our Lord". See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
(1) Conditions precedent.
215.73(1)(a) (a) With the consent of the division and subject to any condition that the division prescribes, a stock association organized under this chapter may absorb or be absorbed by a thrift institution, with the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the board of the association and of the thrift institution.
(b) The absorbed thrift institution shall transfer its assets and liabilities to the absorbing thrift institution but not to defeat or defraud creditors.
(2) Effect of absorption.
(a) Upon absorption the rights, franchises and property interests of the absorbed thrift institution shall be deemed to be transferred to the absorbing thrift institution, which shall hold and enjoy same, in the same manner and to the same extent as the absorbed thrift institution.
(b) Stockholders of a thrift institution absorbed under this section may be compensated by converting the shares of the absorbed thrift institution into, in whole or in part: shares, obligations or other securities of the absorbing thrift institution or of any other thrift institution or corporation; or cash or other thing of value.
(c) All savers in the absorbed thrift institution shall be owners of savings accounts of the same withdrawal value in the absorbing thrift institution.
(3) Withdrawal requests. Any saver in an absorbed thrift institution, who intends to file a written withdrawal request for savings accounts within one year after the date of approval of such absorption by the division, may do so by giving 90 days’ written notice of such intention, and the savings accounts shall be withdrawn as provided in s. 215.17.