Section 18660 Of Article 1. General Provisions From California Financial Code >> Division 7. >> Chapter 10. >> Article 1.
18660
. In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) "Authorized agency activities" means issuing investment
certificates, renewing certificates of deposits, as defined in
Section 18003.6, closing loans, servicing loans, and receiving
payments on loans and other obligations. "Authorized agency
activities" includes ministerial functions such as providing loan
applications, assembling documents, providing a location for
returning documents necessary for making a loan, providing loan
account information, receiving payments, disbursing loan funds,
evaluating loan applications, and other activities that the
commissioner may specify by rule or order. However, "authorized
agency activities" does not include any other activities that the
commissioner may specify by rule or order.
(b) "Branch business unit" means all or substantially all of the
business of a branch office of an industrial loan company.
(c) "California":
(1) When used with respect to an industrial loan company, means a
corporation of the type described in Section 18003 organized and
licensed under the laws of this state.
(2) When used with respect to an office of an industrial loan
company, means an office which is located in this state.
(3) When used with respect to a bank or an office of a bank, has
the meaning set forth in subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 126.5.
(d) "Core business" means the business of issuing investment
certificates, making loans, and other activities that the
commissioner may specify by rule or order.
(e) "Depository institution affiliate" means a depository
institution affiliate within the meaning of Section 18(r) of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Act (18 U.S.C. Sec. 1828(r)).
(f) "Facility," when used with respect to a foreign (other state)
industrial loan company, means an office in this state at which the
industrial loan company engages in noncore business but at which it
does not engage in core business.
(g) "Foreign (other state) industrial loan company" means a
corporation of the type described in Section 18003 organized under
the laws of any state of the United States, as defined in Section
146.7, other than this state.
(h) "Insured":
(1) When used with respect to an industrial loan company, means an
industrial loan company, the investment certificates of which are
insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation under the
Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. Sec. 1811 et seq.).
(2) When used with respect to an investment certificate or
deposit, means an investment certificate or deposit that is insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation under the Federal
Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. Sec. 1811 et seq.).
(i) "Law of the domicile," when used with respect to an industrial
loan company, means the law of the state of the United States, as
defined in Section 146.7, under which the industrial loan company is
organized.
(j) "Noncore business" means all activities permissible for an
industrial loan company, except core business, and except those
activities prohibited by law or determined by the commissioner by
rule or order not to be noncore business.
(k) "Whole business unit" means all or substantially all of the
business of an industrial loan company.