California Financial Code ARTICLE 4 - Possession, Conservatorship, and Liquidation by the Commissioner

  • Section 18415.
    The commissioner may take possession of the property and business of any industrial loan company and retain possession until the company resumes business or its...
  • Section 18415.1.
    Whenever the commissioner has taken possession of the property and business of an industrial loan company, that industrial loan company, within 10 days after the...
  • Section 18415.2.
    An appeal may be taken from the judgment of the court by the commissioner or by the industrial loan company in the manner provided by...
  • Section 18415.3.
    (a) Whenever the net worth of an industrial loan company, exclusive of its good will, is less than 90 percent of the aggregate sum of its...
  • Section 18415.4.
    The commissioner may also, upon the request of the board of directors of a company, take possession of the property and business of a company...
  • Section 18415.5.
    Upon taking possession of the property and business of any industrial loan company, the commissioner shall give notice of that fact to all persons holding...
  • Section 18415.6.
    Any officer, agent, employee, director, or stockholder of a company who refuses to comply with the demand for possession issued under Section 18415 shall be...
  • Section 18415.7.
    On demand of the commissioner, it shall be the duty of the sheriff of any county of the state, and of the police department of...
  • Section 18415.8.
    Upon taking possession of the property and business of any company, the superior court for the county in which the head office of the company...
  • Section 18415.9.
    At any time after the order taking possession issued under Section 18415 has been filed with the court, the commissioner may remove the principal office...
  • Section 18415.10.a.
    The commissioner may, at any time, examine under oath any officer, director, agent, employee or stockholder of a company to determine whether or not all...
  • Section 18415.11.
    Upon taking possession of the property and business of any company, the commissioner has authority and the duty to collect all moneys due to the...
  • Section 18415.12.
    The commissioner may file a petition with the court and the court shall issue such injunctions or orders, as may be deemed necessary, to prevent...
  • Section 18415.13.
    After the taking of possession of the property and business of any company, the commissioner may terminate or adopt any executory contract to which the...
  • Section 18415.14.
    The commissioner may proceed against any debtor or alleged debtor by way of summary procedure or by order to show cause issued by the court...
  • Section 18415.15.
    The commissioner may make examinations of the seized company and review the activities of any conservator or liquidator.(Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 140, Sec. 1....
  • Section 18415.16.
    The actual cost of any examination, investigation or services, including the actual amount of salary or other compensation paid to the persons making the examination,...
  • Section 18415.17.
    The determination by the commissioner to liquidate a company, evidenced by filing written notice of the determination with the court, operates to stay or dissolve...
  • Section 18415.18.
    Upon taking possession of the property, and business of a company in any proceeding under this article, the commissioner shall have the power to do...
  • Section 18415.19.
    All expenses of taking possession of, conserving, conducting, liquidating, disposing of or otherwise dealing with the business and property of any company under this article...
  • Section 18415.21.
    Any transaction occurring within six months of the date of taking possession shall be voidable by the conservator or liquidator if the transaction has the...
  • Section 18415.22.
    No obligation may be purchased or discounted under any agreement between the company and any person involving the purchase or discount of obligation from the...
  • Section 18415.23.
    No attachment or execution shall be issued against the property of any company before final judgment in any action or proceeding in any court.(Added by...
  • Section 18420.
    The commissioner, as conservator or liquidator, after taking possession of the company, shall, in his or her name, in the name of the company, in...
  • Section 18420.1.
    No transaction involving real or personal property, investment or reinvestment of funds or assets, or settlement or compromise of pending lawsuits shall be made without...
  • Section 18420.2.
    The commissioner may, with ex parte approval of the court, sell all or any part of the company’s assets to another industrial loan company, to...
  • Section 18420.5.
    The commissioner may appoint a person to act as conservator or liquidator of the company. The person appointed may be Thrift Guaranty Corporation of California....
  • Section 18420.6.
    The commissioner shall have the authority to terminate the appointment of a conservator or liquidator whenever the commissioner deems it in the best interest of...
  • Section 18420.7.
    The commissioner may require a conservator or liquidator to provide such bond as the commissioner deems proper. The conservator or liquidator shall receive a salary,...
  • Section 18425.
    If at any time after taking possession of the property and business of a company it shall appear to the commissioner that it would be...
  • Section 18425.1.
    The liquidator shall cause notice to be given by publication for four successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation at or near the principal...
  • Section 18425.2.
    All claims, demands, or causes of action of creditors, and persons other than investors against any property owned or held by it in trust, or...
  • Section 18425.3.
    If the liquidator doubts the validity of any claim, the liquidator may reject the claim and serve notice of rejection upon the claimant either by...
  • Section 18425.4.
    A claim shall set forth, under oath, on the form prescribed by the commissioner, all of the following:(a) The particulars of the claim, and the consideration...
  • Section 18425.5.
    When an investment certificate holder is also a debtor, the liquidator may offset any balance due the investment certificate holder against the debt and the...
  • Section 18425.6.
    The amount of a claim of an investment certificate holder shall be the amount which the investment certificate holder would have been entitled to withdraw...
  • Section 18425.7.
    When the time fixed for the presentation of claims has expired, the liquidator shall make in duplicate a full and complete list of all claims...
  • Section 18425.8.
    Objections to any claim not rejected by the liquidator may be made by any person interested by filing his or her objections, in writing, with...
  • Section 18425.9.
    The liquidator, with the approval of the court, may pay one or more dividends to investment certificate holders prior to the expiration of the time...
  • Section 18425.10.a.
    (a) Claims allowed in a proceeding under this article shall be given preference in the following order:(1) All costs and expenses of administration of conservatorship and liquidation.(2) Taxes...
  • Section 18425.11.
    Whenever the commissioner determines to liquidate a company, the commissioner shall cause an inventory of all the assets of the company to be made in...
  • Section 18425.12.
    If it appears improbable that anything can be realized from any property of the company and that the cost of maintaining, preserving, or protecting the...
  • Section 18425.13.
    If a purchaser of any property or any bad or doubtful debt or claim of a company cannot be obtained and it appears improbable that...
  • Section 18425.14.
    When the liquidator has fully liquidated all claims other than claims of stockholders, made due provision for any and all known but unclaimed liabilities, excepting...
  • Section 18425.15.
    Upon the payment of a final dividend in liquidation, the commissioner shall prepare and file with the court a full and final statement of the...
  • Section 18425.16.
    In making its order approving the commissioner’s final statement of the liquidation of the company, the court shall determine the amounts of the liquidating dividends...
  • Section 18425.17.
    The order of the court approving the final statement on liquidation shall provide for the destruction or other disposition of the books and records of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018