17-5227. Application for change of name; notice and hearing; action by commissioner; appeal. Five copies of an application to the commissioner for approval shall be signed by two officers of the association, acknowledged before an officer competent to take acknowledgments of deeds, and filed with the commissioner. Upon receipt of application for change of name the commissioner shall conduct a hearing thereon in accordance with the provisions of the Kansas administrative procedure act. The commissioner shall notify each association chartered to do business in the applicant's county of such application, by registered mail. Such notification shall set a time at which a hearing will be held before the commissioner. The commissioner shall inquire into the advisability of such change. After the hearing the commissioner shall promptly approve or disapprove the change. If approved the commissioner shall issue a certificate of approval of such change. When the commissioner shall have endorsed such an approval upon the copies of an application for approval of change of name, the commissioner shall file one copy thereof with the secretary of state, two copies with the federal home loan bank of which the association is a member, return one copy to the applicant association and retain the original copy of the application in the permanent files in the commissioner's office. Any association aggrieved by any action or nonaction of the commissioner under this section may appeal therefrom to the savings and loan board in the manner provided by K.S.A. 17-5606 and amendments thereto. An order of the commissioner under this section shall be deemed an initial order and shall be subject to review by the savings and loan board.

History: L. 1943, ch. 133, § 28; L. 1972, ch. 66, § 1; L. 1988, ch. 356, § 58; July 1, 1989.