Section 4827.3.

Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 4827.7 in the case of a California state-licensed foreign (other nation) bank or in federal law in the case of a federally licensed foreign (other nation) bank, nothing in this division except subdivision (c) of Section 4879.02 authorizes any sale or merger in a case where the purchasing or surviving corporation is a foreign (other nation) bank unless the foreign (other nation) bank is at the effective time of the sale or merger licensed under Article 3 (commencing with Section 1750) of Chapter 13.5 of Division 1 or authorized under federal law to transact in this state the business to be acquired in the sale or merger.

(Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 887, Sec. 18. Effective September 25, 1996.)