§31A-7-10. Executory contracts and leases; assumption or
rejection; court approval for assignments.
(a) Within the six-month period immediately following the
recordation of his certificate of appointment with the county
clerk, the receiver may assume or reject any executory contract
or any unexpired lease of the involved financial institution.
Notice of the receiver's rejection of any such contract or lease
shall be given to the other party to such contract or lease not
later than fifteen days before the day the termination takes
effect. Sufficient notice is given when the other party to the
contract or lease or any authorized agent or representative
thereof is actually given in person written or oral notice of
such rejection or when the receiver has mailed notice of such
rejection to the other party at his last known mailing address by
certified or registered mail, return receipt requested. As of
the date any such termination takes effect, any claim of the
other party to the contract or lease is limited to the contract
payment or rent accrued up to the time of rejection plus an
amount equal to six months of contract payment or rent if such
payment or rent would have otherwise been due under the contract
or lease had it not been terminated. If the receiver assumes
any such contract or lease, he shall do so at the contract or
rent amount and upon all terms set forth in the contract or lease
and shall cure any default in the contract or lease.
(b) With the approval of the circuit court of the county in
which the principal office of the involved financial institution
is located, the receiver may assign to any new financial institution created to carry on the business of the involved
financial institution any executory contract or unexpired lease
not in default or the default of which has been cured. In any
such case, before the court approves any such assignment, the
receiver must prove to the court and the court must find that the
proposed assignment involves a risk no greater to the new
financial institution than that undertaken by the involved
financial institution at the time the contract or lease was
originally executed.
(c) Notwithstanding any provision in any executory contract
or unexpired lease to the contrary, an executory contract or
unexpired lease of a financial institution for which a receiver
has been appointed under the provisions of this article may not
be terminated or modified in any way after the appointment of the
receiver solely because of a provision in such contract or lease
that is conditioned upon the appointment of a receiver or
conservator for the institution or upon the insolvency or
financial condition of the institution at any time before a
distribution of its proceeds pursuant to section twelve of this
article.