17-5227.   Application for change of name; notice and hearing; action bycommissioner; appeal.Five copies of an application to the commissioner for approval shall besigned by two officers of the association, acknowledged before an officercompetent to take acknowledgments of deeds, and filed with thecommissioner. Upon receipt of application for change of name thecommissioner shall conduct a hearing thereon in accordance with theprovisions of the Kansas administrative procedure act. The commissionershall notify each association chartered to do business in theapplicant's county of such application, by registered mail. Suchnotification shall set a time at which a hearing will be held before thecommissioner. The commissioner shall inquire into the advisability of suchchange. After the hearing the commissioner shall promptly approve ordisapprove the change. If approved the commissioner shall issue acertificate of approval of such change. When the commissioner shall haveendorsed such an approval upon the copies of an application for approval ofchange of name, the commissioner shall file one copy thereof with thesecretary of state, two copies with the federal home loan bank of which theassociation is a member, return one copy to the applicant association andretain the original copy of the application in the permanent files in thecommissioner's office. Any association aggrieved by any action or nonactionof the commissioner under this section may appeal therefrom to the savingsand loan board in the manner provided by K.S.A. 17-5606 and amendmentsthereto. An order of the commissioner under this section shall be deemed aninitial order and shall be subject to review by the savings and loan board.

      History:   L. 1943, ch. 133, § 28; L. 1972, ch. 66, § 1; L.1988, ch. 356, § 58; July 1, 1989.