§ 36a-229 — (Formerly Sec. 36-41). Immediate delivery of records and other property to receivers and conservators of Connecticut banks and credit unions. Copies. Penalty for neglect or refusal to deliver records and other property.

Connecticut § 36a-229

• Jurisdiction: Connecticut
• Title 36a: The Banking Law of Connecticut
• Ch. 664c: Fundamental Changes Involving Banks, Branches, Automated Teller Machines, Virtual Banking and Bank Holding Companies

Text

(a) Each affiliate, officer, director, employee, shareholder, trustee, agent, attorney, attorney-in-fact or correspondent of a Connecticut bank or Connecticut credit union shall immediately deliver to the receiver or conservator of such bank or credit union, without cost to the receiver or conservator, any record or other property of the bank or credit union or that relates to the business of the bank or credit union. (b) If by contract or otherwise a record or other property that can be copied is the property of a person specified in subsection (a) of this section, it shall be copied and the copy shall be delivered to the receiver or conservator. The owner shall retain the original until notification by the receiver or conservator that it is no longer required in the administration of the bank's or credit union's affairs or until such other time as the Superior Court, after notice and hearing, directs. (c) Any person who wilfully neglects or refuses to deliver to the receiver or conservator of any Connecticut bank or Connecticut credit union, on demand, any record or other property belonging to such receivership or conservatorship, in the possession or under the control of such person, shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than three years or both.

Legislative History

(1949 Rev., S. 5766; P.A. 78-121, S. 28, 113; P.A. 88-65, S. 24; P.A. 94-122, S. 104, 340; P.A. 02-73, S. 19; P.A. 04-136, S. 21.) History: P.A. 78-121 removed private bankers and building associations from purview of section; P.A. 88-65 deleted a reference to industrial banks; P.A. 94-122 made the penalties for failure to cooperate with a receiver apply to conservators, effective January 1, 1995; Sec. 36-41 transferred to Sec. 36a-229 in 1995; P.A. 02-73 added “or Connecticut credit union”; P.A. 04-136 added new Subsec. (a) requiring immediate delivery of records or other property of the bank or credit union to the receiver or conservator of such bank or credit union, and new Subsec. (b) re copying of records or other property, delivery of the copy to the receiver or conservator and retention of the originals, and designated existing provisions as Subsec. (c), amending same to substitute reference to record or other property for reference to books, papers or evidences of title or debt or property, effective May 12, 2004.