Section 202-A. Restrictions on receiving deposits

1. A foreign banking
  corporation licensed pursuant to article two of this chapter to maintain
  one or more agencies in this state shall not engage in the  business  of
  receiving deposits in this state; provided (a) that such foreign banking
  corporation  may  maintain  for  the  account  of others credit balances
  incidental to, or arising out of, the exercise of its lawful powers; and
  (b) that the banking board  is  authorized  to  adopt  regulations  that
  permit  a  foreign banking corporation, licensed pursuant to article two
  of this chapter to maintain one or more agencies in this state, to issue
  to a corporation, partnership, trust, unincorporated association,  joint
  stock association or similar association obligations each in a principal
  amount  of not less than one hundred thousand dollars; and (c) that such
  foreign banking corporation may accept deposits other than from citizens
  or residents of the United States as the superintendent shall define  by
  regulation.
    2. A foreign banking corporation organized under the laws of a foreign
  country  or  of  Puerto  Rico may be licensed pursuant to article two of
  this chapter to maintain a branch or branches  in  this  state  and  may
  engage in the business of receiving deposits in this state.
    3.  The  banking  board  shall have power to prescribe, by specific or
  general regulation, to the extent  to  which  and  the  conditions  upon
  which, the deposits and credit balances in agencies and branches in this
  state of foreign banking corporations may be established, maintained and
  paid out.