NOTICE OF PENDING DISSOLUTION.

(a) A state trust company shall publish notice of its pending dissolution in a newspaper of general circulation in each community where its home office or an additional trust office is located:

(1) at least once each week for eight consecutive weeks; or

(2) at other times specified by the banking commissioner or rules adopted under this subtitle.

(b) The notice must:

(1) be in the form and include the information required by the banking commissioner; and

(2) state that:

(A) the state trust company is liquidating;

(B) clients, depositors, and creditors must present their claims for payment on or before a specific date; and

(C) all safe deposit box holders and bailors of property left with the state trust company should remove their property on or before a specified date.

(c) The dates selected by the state trust company under Subsection (b) must:

(1) be approved by the banking commissioner;

(2) allow the affairs of the state trust company to be wound up as quickly as feasible; and

(3) allow creditors, clients, and owners of property adequate time for presentation of claims, withdrawal of accounts, and redemption of property.

(d) The banking commissioner may adjust the dates under Subsection (b) with or without republication of notice if additional time appears needed for the activities to which the dates pertain.

(e) At the time of or promptly after publication of the notice, the state trust company shall mail to each of the state trust company's known clients, depositors, creditors, safe deposit box holders, and bailors of property left with the state trust company, at the mailing address shown on the state trust company's records, an individual notice containing:

(1) the information required in a notice under Subsection (b); and

(2) specific information pertinent to the account or property of the addressee.