Section 12100 Of Chapter 2. Application Of Division From California Financial Code >> Division 3. >> Chapter 2.
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. This division does not apply to any of the following:
(a) Any person, or his or her authorized agent, doing business
under license and authority of the Commissioner of Financial
Institutions under Division 1 (commencing with Section 99) or under
any law of this state or of the United States relating to banks,
trust companies, building or savings associations, industrial loan
companies, personal property brokers, credit unions, title insurance
companies or underwritten title companies, as defined in Section
12402 of the Insurance Code, escrow agents subject to Division 6
(commencing with Section 17000), or finance lenders subject to
Division 9 (commencing with Section 22000).
(b) (1) Any person licensed under Chapter 14A (commencing with
Section 1851) of Division 1 or any agent of the person, when selling
any traveler's check, as defined in Section 1852, which is issued by
the person.
(2) Any person licensed under Division 16 (commencing with Section
33000) or any agent of the person, when selling any payment
instrument, as defined in Section 33059, which is issued by the
person.
(c) The services of a person licensed to practice law in this
state, when the person renders services in the course of his or her
practice as an attorney-at-law, and the fees and disbursements of the
person, whether paid by the debtor or other person, are not charges
or costs and expenses regulated by or subject to the limitations of
this chapter. These fees and disbursements shall not be shared,
directly or indirectly, with the prorater or check seller.
(d) Any transaction in which money or other property is paid to a
"joint control agent" for disbursal or use in payment of the cost of
labor, materials, services, permits, fees, or other items of expense
incurred in construction of improvements upon real property.
(e) A merchant-owned credit or creditors association, or a
member-owned, member-controlled, or member-directed association whose
principal function is that of servicing the community as a reporting
agency.
(f) Any agency or service subject to Title 2.91 (commencing with
Section 1812.500) of Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code, when
providing services under that title.
(g) Any person licensed under Part 1 (commencing with Section
10000) of Division 4 of the Business and Professions Code, when
acting in any capacity for which he or she is licensed under that
part.
(h) A common law or statutory assignment for the benefit of
creditors or the operation or liquidation of property or a business
enterprise under supervision of a creditor's committee.
(i) The services of a person licensed as a certified public
accountant or a public accountant in this state, when the person
renders services in the course of his or her practice as a certified
public accountant or a public accountant, and the fees and
disbursements of the person, whether paid by the debtor or other
person, are not charges or costs and expenses regulated by or subject
to the limitations of this chapter. These fees and disbursements
shall not be shared, directly or indirectly, with the prorater or
check seller.
(j) Any person licensed under Chapter 14 (commencing with Section
1800) of Division 1 or any agent of the person, when selling any
check or draft that is drawn by the person and is of the type
described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 1800.5.
(k) Any group of banks each of which is organized under the laws
of a nation other than the United States and one or more of which are
licensed by the Commissioner of Financial Institutions under Article
3 (commencing with Section 1750) of Chapter 13.5 of Division 1, or
any agent of the group, when selling any foreign currency traveler's
check, as defined in Section 1852, issued by the group. Each bank
that is a member of the group is jointly and severally liable to pay
the foreign currency traveler's check.
(l) Any transaction of the type described in Section 1854.1.