New York Consolidated Laws, Banking Law - BNK § 201. Conditions to be complied with by foreign banking corporations applying for initial license

Every foreign banking corporation before being licensed by the superintendent to transact in this state the business of buying, selling, paying or collecting bills of exchange, or of issuing letters of credit or of receiving money for transmission or transmitting the same by draft, check, cable or otherwise, or of making loans, or receiving deposits, and before being authorized by the superintendent to exercise the fiduciary powers specified in section two hundred one-b of this chapter, or any part of such business, or before maintaining in this state its initial agency or branch for carrying on such business or any part thereof, shall subscribe and acknowledge and submit to the superintendent at his office, an application certificate in duplicate, which shall specifically state:

At the time such application certificate is submitted to the superintendent, such corporation shall also submit a duly exemplified or otherwise authenticated copy of its charter and a verified or otherwise authenticated copy of its by-laws, or an equivalent thereof satisfactory to the superintendent, and pay an investigation fee as prescribed pursuant to section eighteen-a of this chapter to be collected by the superintendent.