A. In addition to any other powers conferred by law, the State Credit Union Board shall have the power to:
1. Regulate its own procedures and practice, except as may be hereafter provided by law;
2. Define any term not defined in Oklahoma Laws relating to credit unions;
3. Adopt and promulgate reasonable and uniform rules and regulations to:
Such rules or regulations shall serve to foster and maintain an effective level of credit union services and the security of member accounts. The provisions of the Administrative Procedures Act of this state, as now or hereafter amended, are hereby expressly adopted and incorporated herein as though a part of this provision, and shall apply to all rules or regulations, procedures and orders of the Board. Final orders of the Board may be appealed to the Supreme Court of Oklahoma by any party directly affected and showing aggrievement by the order;
4. Restrict the withdrawal of share or deposit accounts or both from any credit union after having determined that circumstances make such restriction necessary for the proper protection of shareholders or depositors;
5. Issue cease and desist orders after having determined from competent and substantial evidence that a credit union is engaged or has engaged, or when the Board has reasonable cause to believe the credit union is about to engage, in an unsafe or unsound practice, or is violating or has violated or the Board has reasonable cause to believe is about to violate, a material provision of any law, rule, regulation or any condition imposed in writing by the Board or any written agreement made with the Board;
6. Suspend from office and prohibit from further participation in any manner in the conduct of the affairs of a credit union any director, officer or committee member who has committed any violation of a law, rule or regulation or of a cease and desist order or who has engaged or participated in any unsafe or unsound practice in connection with the credit union or who has committed or engaged in any act, omission or practice which constitutes a breach of that person's fiduciary duty as such director, officer or committee member, when the Board has determined that such action or actions have resulted or will result in substantial financial loss or other damage that seriously prejudices the interests of the members;
7. Affirm, modify, reverse, and stay the enforcement of any order or ruling of the State Banking Commissioner or Administrator appointed pursuant to the provisions of subsection B of this section relating to credit unions, their directors, officers, committee members or employees;
8. Subpoena witnesses, compel their attendance, require the production of evidence, administer oaths and examine any person under oath in connection with any subject relating to a duty imposed upon or a power vested in the Board;
9. Charge application fees for processing submissions by a credit union to the Board, Commissioner or Administrator. The Board may charge a fee for the items enumerated herein; provided, the Board’s fee schedule shall not be limited solely to the following submissions:
The Board may adopt and promulgate, from time to time, a fee schedule for the processing of submissions by credit unions. Any payments received pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph shall be deposited to the revolving fund for the State Banking Department created in Section 211.1 of this title;
10. Charge and collect assessments from each credit union under its supervision on each One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) of assets, or major fraction thereof, at rates established by the Board. The assessments shall be paid annually to the State Banking Department no later than the fifth day of February in each year. All assessments and all fees shall be deposited in the revolving fund for the State Banking Department pursuant to the provisions of Section 211.1 of this title. Effective January 1, 2007, and each year thereafter, ten percent (10%) of all assessments collected pursuant to this paragraph shall be deposited to the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury. The State Credit Union Board may charge and collect assessments on an annual basis and may, in addition to any annual assessment, charge and collect a special assessment from each credit union, at rates established by the Board; and
11. Charge and collect from each credit union under its supervision an annual fee of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) which shall be deposited in the Oklahoma State Banking Department revolving fund created pursuant to Section 211.1 of this title.
B. The Commissioner may appoint an Administrator who, in addition to such duties and authority as are conferred by Section 2001 et seq. of this title, shall have such duties and authority as the Commissioner may assign the Administrator. The bond of the Administrator shall be the same as that set for the State Deputy Banking Commissioner. In addition to other powers conferred by Section 2001 et seq. of this title, the Commissioner shall have the power to:
1. Delegate the duties of the Office of the State Banking Commissioner under Section 2001 et seq. of this title to the Administrator;
2. Exercise general supervision of credit unions organized under the laws of this state;
3. Require credit unions to cease and desist from engaging in any act or transaction, or doing any act in furtherance thereof, which would constitute a violation of the provisions of Section 2001 et seq. of this title, or a lawful regulation issued thereunder, or to cease and desist in engaging in any unsafe or unsound credit union practice;
4. Suspend any officer, director or employee or committee member who is found, after hearing, to be dishonest, reckless, unfit to participate in the conduct of the affairs of the credit union, or to have engaged or participated in any unsafe or unsound practice in connection with the credit union, or to be practicing a continuing disregard or violation of laws, rules, regulations or orders which are likely to cause substantial loss to the credit union or likely to seriously weaken the condition of the credit union. However, any individual so suspended may within ten (10) days file a notice of protest for the suspension with the Administrator and as soon as possible thereafter, but in no event more than thirty (30) days, the Board will review the order of the Commissioner and make such findings as it deems proper, and pending that, the officer, employee, director or committee member shall not perform any of the duties of such office; and
5. Charge a fee not to exceed Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per hour and actual expenses for each examiner for actual time consumed by the State Banking Department in making special examinations of a credit union. A “special examination” shall be any examination conducted in connection with a charter conversion, or a limited scope examination conducted at a frequency more often than once each eighteen (18) months, when deemed necessary by the Administrator and the Commissioner. Payments received pursuant to this paragraph shall be deposited in the revolving fund for the State Banking Department pursuant to Section 211.1 of this title.
C. Upon failure of a credit union to comply with the Commissioner's order or requirements, the Commissioner shall report such failure to the Board for action with respect to suspension of such credit union's certificate of authority to transact business.
Added by Laws 1974, c. 267, § 10. Amended by Laws 1992, c. 90, § 2, eff. July 1, 1992; Laws 1993, c. 183, § 26, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 1995, c. 151, § 2, emerg. eff. May 2, 1995; Laws 2000, c. 77, § 2, emerg. eff. April 14, 2000; Laws 2001, c. 59, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2001; Laws 2003, c. 356, § 7, emerg. eff. June 3, 2003; Laws 2006, c. 57, § 7, emerg. eff. April 17, 2006.