Kentucky Revised Statutes Title XXV. Business and Financial Institutions § 286.3-915.Bank combinations; operation of a combined bank as a branch of the surviving bank; transfer of combined bank's main office and branches; definitions

1. Combine any or all of the banks into and with any one (1) of the commonly controlled banks in this state, and thereafter, the surviving bank shall continue to operate its principal office in this state and may operate the other authorized offices of the banks so combined as branches of the surviving bank; or

2. Transfer all of the branches in a county of one (1) of the commonly controlled banks to any other of the commonly controlled banks in this state, and thereafter, the bank to which the branches are transferred may operate the branches as branches of the bank;

(b) 1. Any combination authorized by this subsection shall not require the approval of the commissioner.

2. On or before thirty (30) days prior to the combination, the proposed surviving or transferee bank shall notify the commissioner of the combination.

3. On the effective date of the combination, the charter of any combined bank organized under the laws of this state shall be surrendered; and

1. The term “combine” or “combination” includes a merger or the acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets of a bank already controlled by an individual or bank holding company;

2. An individual or bank holding company “controls” a bank if that individual or company, directly or indirectly, owns, controls, or has the power to vote at least eighty percent (80%) of the issued and outstanding voting securities of the bank;

3. “Combined bank” means any bank participating in a combination authorized by this section other than the surviving bank;

4. “Surviving bank” means a bank into which a combined bank has been combined;

5. “Bank” includes a national bank and federal savings bank; and

6. “Individual” and “bank holding company” have the same meanings as in KRS 286.3-900.

1. The merger or consolidation of state banks having their principal offices in the same county and the operation by the merged or consolidated corporation of the banks; or

2. The sale of any state bank to, and the purchase thereof by, any other state bank with its principal office in the same county and the operation of the bank by the purchasing bank as a branch.