Bank change of name; approval required

(a) No bank or trust company shall change its name until such name change has been submitted to and approved by the commissioner. (b) The commissioner shall not approve the name selected for the bank if it is the name of any other bank: (1) Doing business in the same city or town; or (2) within a 15-mile radius of any bank or branch bank. (c) The commissioner shall not approve the name selected for the trust company if it is the same or substantially similar name of any other trust company doing business in the state of Kansas. (d) Any bank or trust company may request exemption from the commissioner from subsection (b) or (c). (e) Upon approval of such name change, the bank or trust company must notify and make the necessary filings as may be required by the Kansas secretary of state's office. (f) Any bank or trust company authorized to do business pursuant to the state banking code may use a name other than the name approved by the commissioner, provided: (1) The bank or trust company must notify the commissioner, and the commissioner must approve, any use of a name other than the name approved by the commissioner; (2) the bank's or trust company's actual name is prominently displayed adjacent to any other name displayed; and (3) the bank or trust company continues to use the name approved by the commissioner in all legally enforceable documents and memoranda.