388 - Fines and penalties for failure to make payments on instalment shares.

§ 388.  Fines and penalties for failure to make payments on instalment  shares. 1. Where dividends on instalment shares are credited by  series,  a  savings  and  loan  association  may impose fines upon the holders of  instalment shares of a series, their legal representatives or successors  in interest, if they neglect to pay dues, interest or premium when  due,  but  such  fines shall not exceed one per centum per month of the amount  in default for the period during which such dues, interest  and  premium  shall  have  remained  in default, except that a fine at the rate of two  per centum per month of the amount in default may be imposed during  the  first three months of any default.    2.  Where  dividends on instalment shares are credited individually to  shares, a savings and loan association  may  declare  a  lower  rate  of  dividend  on  instalment  shares upon which there has been a default for  more than sixty days since the last declaration of  dividends,  provided  that  such  dividend  shall  be  not  less  than sixty per centum of the  dividend declared on like instalment shares not in default.    3. Where dues on instalment shares are applied directly  in  reduction  of  a  mortgage loan, a savings and loan association may provide, as one  of the terms of the obligation, that interest may be added to the unpaid  balance of the obligation on the first day of each  month  and  computed  upon  the unpaid balance of the obligation due as of the last day of the  preceding month.    4. No fine shall be charged against or deducted from the dues actually  paid by a member and no fines or penalties other than those provided  in  this section shall be imposed for failure to meet payments on instalment  shares.