{"data":{"id":"us-md/md.-code-financial-institutions-9-203","jurisdiction":"us-md","citation":"Md. Code, Financial Institutions § 9–203","heading":"","body":"The name of a savings and loan association:\n(1) Need not indicate that it is a corporation;\n(2) Shall contain one of the following phrases or any combination of the words:\n(i) “Savings association”;\n(ii) “Building association”;\n(iii) “Savings and loan association”; or\n(iv) “Building and loan association”;\n(3) May not be similar in any material or misleading respect to the name of any other State or federal savings and loan association, except that a savings and loan association in operation before July 1, 1980 may continue to operate under its existing name; and\n(4) May not include the words “commercial”, “federal”, “government”, “guaranteed”, “insured”, “Maryland”, “national”, “trust”, “trustee”, or “United States”, except that a savings and loan association in operation before July 1, 1986 may continue to operate under its existing name.","path":["Article - Financial Institutions"],"source_url":"https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gfi\u0026section=9-203","current_through":"2026-01-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:58:27Z","sha256":"3360c48dfacd4ceca7063846d20bc56a2e48b2253a613e78a32f1bd807c3d279","source_id":"us-md","stale":false,"prev":"us-md/md.-code-financial-institutions-9-202","next":"us-md/md.-code-financial-institutions-9-204"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}