Financial Code section 5652
(a)
Do business under any name or title that contains the following terms:(1)
“Savings association.”(2)
“Savings bank.”(3)
“Savings and loan association.”(4)
“Building and loan association.”(5)
“Building association.”(6)
Any combination employing either or both of the words “building,” or “loan,” with one or more of the words “saving,” “savings,” or words of similar import.(7)
Any combination employing one or more of the words “saving,” “savings,” or words of similar import with one or more of the words “association,” “bank,” “institution,” “society,” “company,” “fund,” “corporation,” or words of similar import.(b)
Use any name or sign or circulate or use any letterhead, billhead, circular or paper whatever, or advertise or represent in any manner that indicates or reasonably implies that the business is the character or kind of business carried on or transacted by an association or is likely to lead any person to believe that the business is that of an association.
Source:
Section 5652, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=FIN§ionNum=5652.
(accessed Jun. 2, 2025).