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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>85960</law_id><section_number>6.2-1200</section_number><catch_line>Removal of director or officer; appeal; penalty for acting after removal</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>6.2-1127</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="6.2">Financial Institutions and Services</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Depository Institutions and Trust Organizations</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="11">Savings Institutions</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="9">Supervision</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Whenever any director or officer of a <span class="dictionary">savings institution</span> doing business in the Commonwealth has knowingly continued to violate any <span class="dictionary">law</span> relating to such <span class="dictionary">savings institution</span> or has knowingly continued any unsafe or unsound practice in conducting the business of such institution, after the director or officer, and the board of directors of the institution of which he is a director or officer, have been warned in writing by the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> to discontinue such violation of <span class="dictionary">law</span> or such unsafe or unsound practice, the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> shall certify the <span class="dictionary">facts</span> to the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>. The <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> shall thereupon enter an <span class="dictionary">order</span> requiring such director or officer to appear before the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, within not less than 10 days, to show cause why he should not be removed from office and thereafter restrained from participating in any manner in the management of such <span class="dictionary">savings institution</span>. Such <span class="dictionary">order</span> shall contain a <span class="dictionary">brief</span> statement of the <span class="dictionary">facts</span> certified to the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> by the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>. A copy of the <span class="dictionary">order</span> shall be served upon the director or officer, and a copy thereof shall be sent by certified or registered mail to each director of the <span class="dictionary">savings institution</span> affected. <a id="paragraph-307880" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1200/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If, after granting the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> director or officer a reasonable opportunity to be heard, the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> finds that he has knowingly continued to violate any <span class="dictionary">law</span> relating to the <span class="dictionary">savings institution</span>, or has knowingly continued any unsafe or unsound practice in conducting the business of the institution, after he and the board of directors of the institution of which he is a director or officer have been warned in writing by the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> to discontinue such violation of <span class="dictionary">law</span> or unsafe or unsound practice, the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> shall enter an <span class="dictionary">order</span> removing the director or officer from office and restraining the director or officer from thereafter participating in any manner in the management of such <span class="dictionary">savings institution</span>. A copy of such <span class="dictionary">order</span> shall be served upon the director or officer and upon the <span class="dictionary">savings institution</span> of which he is a director or officer, whereupon the director or officer shall cease to be a director or officer of the institution and shall thereafter cease to participate in any manner in the management of the institution. <a id="paragraph-307881" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1200/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Any director or officer removed and restrained under the provisions of this section who thereafter participates in any manner in the management of such <span class="dictionary">savings institution</span>, except as a stockholder therein, is guilty of a Class 6 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. <a id="paragraph-307882" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1200/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1985, c. 425, &#xA7; 6.1-194.84; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
