Arkansas Code Title 23. Public Utilities and Regulated Industries § 23-37-807. Requirements for board approval

(1) The laws of the state in which the southern region association or southern region savings and loan holding company, as applicable, filing the application has its principal place of business permit Arkansas associations and Arkansas savings and loan holding companies, as applicable, to acquire associations and savings and loan holding companies in that state;

(2) Under the laws of the state where it has its principal place of business, the southern region association or southern region savings and loan holding company filing the application could be acquired by the Arkansas association or Arkansas savings and loan holding company, as applicable; and

(3) Each Arkansas association sought to be acquired directly or indirectly in the proposed transaction has been in existence and continuously operated as an association for a period of five (5) years or more prior to the date the application for approval of the transaction was filed with the board. This requirement does not prohibit a southern region association or southern region savings and loan holding company from acquiring all or substantially all of the ownership of an Arkansas association organized solely for the purpose of facilitating the acquisition of an Arkansas association in existence and continuously operated as an association for the requisite five-year period.