The superintendent may prescribe rules governing the activities of merchant banks and implementing this chapter. These rules must take into account the objective of merchant banks to provide needed capital to businesses and the nondepository nature of merchant banks. Rules adopted pursuant to this section are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter II‑A.   [PL 1997, c. 398, Pt. J, §2 (NEW).]