17:9A-316.1. Merger or consolidation, foreign bank acting as fiduciary as successor to party to

Nothing in section three hundred sixteen of chapter sixty-seven of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight (The Banking Act of 1948) shall prevent a foreign bank, which results from a merger or consolidation of a foreign bank with one or more such other corporations, from continuing to transact business in this State in the place of and as successor to any party to the merger or consolidation, in any fiduciary capacity in which such party, at the time of the merger or consolidation, was lawfully acting in this State under appointment made prior to the sixteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, or from continuing to transact business in this State in the place of and as successor to any party to the merger or consolidation, under any appointment and qualification of such party on or subsequent to the sixteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, as executor or trustee of the last will and testament or codicil thereto of a decedent, and was lawfully acting as executor or trustee at the time of the merger or consolidation; provided, however, that any such foreign bank resulting from the merger or consolidation is authorized by the laws under which it is incorporated to so act as such successor in the place of any party to the merger or consolidation; and provided further, that no such foreign bank resulting from the merger or consolidation shall so act as such successor in the place of any party to the merger or consolidation contrary to the terms of any fiduciary instrument under which such party was acting; and provided further, that any such foreign bank resulting from the merger or consolidation shall comply with all the laws of this State applicable to it doing business herein; and provided further, that no such foreign bank resulting from the merger or consolidation shall so act as such successor in the place of any party to the merger or consolidation unless a qualified bank resulting from merger or consolidation is permitted to transact business in like fiduciary capacities in the jurisdiction in which the foreign bank has its principal office.

L.1949, c. 241, p. 777, s. 1.