Tex. Finance Code § 37.006
FINANCIAL MORATORIUM
Texas · Texas Finance Code · Status: effective
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- Tex. Finance Code § 37.006, FINANCIAL MORATORIUM, Texas, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/645250
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(a) The banking commissioner, with the approval of a majority of the finance commission and the governor, may proclaim a financial moratorium for, and invoke a uniform limitation on, withdrawal of deposits of every character from all banks within this state. A bank refusing to comply with a written proclamation of the banking commissioner under this section, signed by a majority of the members of the finance commission and the governor:
(1) forfeits its charter if it is a state bank; or
(2) may not act as reserve agent for a state bank or as depository of state, county, municipal, or other public money if it is a national bank.
(b) On order of the banking commissioner after refusal of a national bank to comply with the proclamation, a depositor of public money with the bank:
(1) shall immediately withdraw the public money from the bank; and
(2) may not redeposit public money in the bank without the banking commissioner's prior written approval.