Before opening a branch, agency, or office in this state and annually thereafter so long as a branch, agency, or office is maintained in this state, a foreign bank granted a certificate of authority pursuant to this Part shall certify to the commissioner the amount of its paid-in capital, its surplus, and its undivided profits, each expressed in the currency of the country of its incorporations; the dollar equivalent of which amount, as determined by the commissioner, shall be deemed to be the amount of its capital, surplus, and undivided profits.
La. R.S. § 6:551.19