If an association, savings and loan holding company, or any subsidiary of an association or savings and loan holding company fails to report to the commissioner as required by this article, the commissioner may impose penalties in accordance with the following:
(a) Any association, savings and loan holding company, or any subsidiary of an association or savings and loan holding company which (1) maintains procedures reasonably adapted to avoid any inadvertent error and, unintentionally and as a result of such an error (A) fails to make, obtain, transmit, or publish any report or information required by the commissioner by the due date set forth in this article or, if no due date is set forth in this article, the date specified by the commissioner, or (B) submits or publishes any false or misleading report or information or (2) inadvertently transmits or publishes any report which is minimally late, shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than two thousand dollars ($2,000) for each day during which the failure continues or the false or misleading information is not corrected. The association, savings and loan holding company, or subsidiary of an association or savings and loan holding company shall have the burden of proving that an error was inadvertent and that a report was inadvertently transmitted or published late.
(b) Any association, savings and loan holding company, or any subsidiary of an association or savings and loan holding company which (1) fails to make, obtain, transmit, or publish any report or information required by the commissioner by the due date set forth in this article or, if no due date is set forth in this article, the date specified by the commissioner or (2) submits or publishes any false or misleading report or information, in a manner not described in subdivision (a) shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for each day during which the failure continues or the false and misleading information is not corrected.
(c) Any association, savings and loan holding company, or any subsidiary of an association or savings and loan holding company which knowingly or with reckless disregard for the accuracy of any information or report subject to this section submits or publishes any false or misleading report or information, shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than one million dollars ($1,000,000) or 1 percent of total assets of the savings institution, whichever is less, per day for each day during which the false or misleading information is not corrected.
(d) Any penalty imposed under subdivisions (a), (b), or (c) shall be assessed and collected by the commissioner in the same manner as provided in Section 5330.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1118, Sec. 49.)