[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 242 (Friday, December 15, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78517-78518]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-31993]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION


Issuer Delisting; Notice of Application To Withdraw From Listing 
and Registration; (Resource Bankshares Corporation, Common Stock, $1.50 
Par Value) File No. 1-14319

December 11, 2000.
    Resource Bankshares Corporation, a Virginia corporation 
(``Company''), has filed an application with the Securities and 
Exchange Commission (``Commission''), pursuant to Section 12(d) of the 
Securities Exchange Act of

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1934 (``Act'') \1\ and Rule 12d2-2(d) thereunder,\2\ to withdraw its 
Common Stock, $1.50 par value (``Security''), from listing and 
registration on the American Stock Exchange LLC (``Amex'').
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    \1\ 15 U.S.C. 78l(d).
    \2\ 17 CFR 240.12d2-2(d).
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    Counsel for the Company has stated that the Security has been 
approved for quotation on the National Market of the Nasdaq Stock 
Market, Inc. (``Nasdaq National Market''), effective at the opening of 
business on Friday, December 15, 2000.\3\ The Amex will suspend trading 
in the Security on December 15, 2000, in conjunction with its being 
designated for quotation on the Nasdaq National Market. The Company 
made the decision to transfer its Security having determined that its 
long range plans for growth and investment will be better served by the 
dealer market of the Nasdaq National Market than by the auction market 
of the Amex.
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    \3\ Telephone conversation between T. Richard Litton Jr., 
Member, Kaufman & Canoles, and Matthew Boesch, Paralegal, Division 
of Market Regulation, Commission, on December 8, 2000.
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    The Company's application relates solely to the withdrawal of the 
Security from listing on the Amex and registration under Section 12(b) 
of the Act \4\ and shall have no effect upon the Security's continued 
obligation to be registered under Section 12(g) of the Act.\5\
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    \4\ 15 U.S.C. 78l(b).
    \5\ 15 U.S.C. 78l(g).
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    Any interested person may, on or before January 3, 2001, submit by 
letter to the Secretary of the Securities and Exchange Commission, 450 
Fifth Street, NW., Washington, DC 20549-0609, facts bearing upon 
whether the application has been made in accordance with the rules of 
the Amex and what terms, if any, should be imposed by the Commission 
for the protection of investors. The Commission, based on the 
information submitted to it, will issue an order granting the 
application after the date mentioned above, unless the Commission 
determines to order a hearing on the matter.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Market Regulation, 
pursuant to delegated authority.\6\
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    \6\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(1).
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Jonathan G. Katz,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-31993 Filed 12-14-00; 8:45 am]
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