Section 208-514-090 - Subscription rights(1) Upon a conversion to stock form, as such conversion is defined in WAC 208-514-030(2), by a MHC or a stock savings bank subsidiary of a MHC, depositors of the stock savings bank at the record date of the conversion to stock form who continuously have been depositors since the reorganization, or were depositors of any savings association subsequently acquired by a MHC at a time when the association was in mutual form and remained depositors of the stock savings bank, shall receive, without payment, nontransferable rights to subscribe for stock of the converted MHC or the converted stock savings bank to be sold in the subsequent offering, to the extent that such depositors would have received those rights pursuant to RCW 32.32.045 in a stock conversion of the savings bank as prescribed in chapter 32.32 RCW; provided, however, that such depositors who are not shareholders of the stock savings bank at the record date for the subsequent offering shall have priority rights, not inconsistent with the provisions of chapter 32.32 RCW, to subscribe for shares to be issued in the subsequent offering in accordance with a plan approved by the director or made pursuant to subsequent rules to be promulgated by the director.(2) For purposes of this section, an "eligible account holder" is any depositor of a stock savings bank at the record date for a conversion to stock form of the bank or the MHC who has continuously owned in such bank one or more accounts valued in the aggregate of fifty dollars or more since the date that the trustees of the unconverted mutual savings bank approved the reorganization or the date that the bank's predecessor mutual association was acquired by the MHC.(3) Nothing in chapter 32.34 RCW or chapter 208-514 WAC shall be construed to authorize or require that depositors in a mutual savings bank that reorganizes as a MHC be offered stock in the stock savings bank subsidiary except as provided in subsection (1) of this section.(4) Depositors in a mutual savings bank that reorganizes as a MHC with a stock savings bank subsidiary shall become depositors in such subsidiary when the mutual savings bank merges with or transfers its assets and liabilities to the stock savings bank.Wash. Admin. Code § 208-514-090
Statutory Authority: RCW 30.04.030 and 43.320.040. 00-17-141, amended and recodified as § 208-514-090, filed 8/22/00, effective 9/22/00. Statutory Authority: RCW 32.34.040 - [32.34].050 and chapters 32.08 and 34.05 RCW. 93-13-142, § 50-14-090, filed 6/23/93, effective 7/24/93. Statutory Authority: RCW 32.34.040 - [32.34.]050. 92-06-041, § 50-14-090, filed 2/28/92, effective 3/30/92.