§ 36a-31 — (Formerly Sec. 36-52b). Community reinvestment notice.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, until June 30, 1997, each bank shall provide, in the public lobby of each of its offices other than satellite devices, a public notice substantially similar to the one set forth in this subsection and subsection (b) of this section. Bracketed material shall be used only by a bank having more than one local community. COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT NOTICE Community Reinvestment requires the evaluation of our performance in helping to meet the credit needs of this community, and to take this evaluation into account when the Banking Commissioner decides on certain applications submitted by us. Your involvement is encouraged. You should know that: You may obtain our current Community Reinvestment Statement for this community in this office. (Current Community Reinvestment Statements for other communities served by us are available at our main office, located at: .....................................) You may send signed, written comments about our Community Reinvestment Statement or our performance in helping to meet community credit needs to (title and address of bank official) and to the Banking Commissioner (address). Your letter, together with any responses by us, may be made public. You may look at a file of all signed, written comments received by us within the past two years, any response we have made to the comments and all Community Reinvestment Statements in effect during the past two years at our office located at (address). (You also may look at the file about this community at (name and address of designated office).) You may ask to look at any comments received by the Banking Commissioner. (b) If the bank is a subsidiary of a holding company, the following provision shall be included in the Community Reinvestment Notice required by subsection (a) of this section: We are a subsidiary of (name of holding company), a (bank/savings and loan) holding company. You may request from the (Federal Reserve Bank/Office of Thrift Supervision) of (city, address) an announcement of applications covered by the community reinvestment statement filed by holding companies. (c) Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, until June 30, 1997, within thirty business days of receiving its most recent community reinvestment performance evaluation prepared by the commissioner or a federal financial supervisory agency, each bank shall add the following provision to the community reinvestment notice required by subsection (a) of this section: You may obtain the public section of our most recent Community Reinvestment Performance Evaluation at (name and address of main office and designated community office). (d) (1) On and after July 1, 1997, in addition to the public notice required under federal CRA, each bank shall provide in the public lobby of its main office and each of its branches in this state a public notice substantially similar to the following: STATE OF CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT NOTICE The Banking Commissioner evaluates our record of helping to meet the credit needs of this community consistent with safe and sound operations. The Banking Commissioner also takes this record into account when deciding on certain applications submitted by us. Your involvement is encouraged. In addition to the information that you are entitled to receive under the federal Community Reinvestment Act, as listed in the “Community Reinvestment Act Notice” posted in this lobby, you may review today the public section of our most recent community reinvestment performance evaluation prepared by the Banking Commissioner. You may send written comments about our performance in helping to meet community credit needs to the Banking Commissioner (address). Your letter, together with any response by us, will be considered by the Banking Commissioner in evaluating our community reinvestment performance and may be made public. You may ask to look at any comments received by the Banking Commissioner. (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) to (c), inclusive, of this section, prior to July 1, 1997, a bank may use the form of public notice provided in subdivision (1) of this subsection in lieu of the form of public notice set forth in subsections (a) to (c), inclusive, of this section if such use is consistent with the form of public notice required to be used by the bank under federal CRA. (e) The information, statements, evaluations and notices required under this section and subsection (f) of section 36a-30 may be combined with or attached to the information, statements, evaluations and notices required under federal CRA.

Legislative History

(P.A. 89-295, S. 2, 5; P.A. 91-180, S. 2; P.A. 94-122, S. 17, 340; P.A. 96-8, S. 2, 6; P.A. 02-89, S. 75; P.A. 03-84, S. 24.) History: P.A. 89-295 effective July 1, 1990; P.A. 91-180 deleted previous provisions re combining or attaching information and disclosures from Subsec. (a), added Subsec. (c) re community reinvestment performance evaluations and added Subsec. (d) re combining or attaching required information, statements, evaluations and notices; P.A. 94-122 made technical changes, effective January 1, 1995; Sec. 36-52b transferred to Sec. 36a-31 in 1995; P.A. 96-8 amended Subsecs. (a) and (c) to add the proviso “except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, until June 30, 1997”, substituted “financial supervisory” for “financial regulatory”, and inserted new Subsec. (d) to require the prescribed Community Reinvestment Notice on and after July 1, 1997, effective April 29, 1996; P.A. 02-89 amended Subsec. (e) to replace reference to “subsections (d) and (g) of section 36a-30” with reference to “subsection (f) of section 36a-30”; P.A. 03-84 changed “Commissioner of Banking” to “Banking Commissioner” in Subsecs. (a) and (d)(1), effective June 3, 2003.