Section 22154 Of Article 4. Regulations From California Financial Code >> Division 9. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 4.
22154
. (a) No licensee shall conduct the business of making loans
under this division within any office, room, or place of business in
which any other business is solicited or engaged in, or in
association or conjunction therewith, except as is authorized in
writing by the commissioner upon the commissioner's finding that the
character of the other business is such that the granting of the
authority would not facilitate evasions of this division or of the
rules and regulations made pursuant to this division. An
authorization once granted remains in effect until revoked by the
commissioner. The commissioner may authorize the other business
through the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry.
(b) The products or services of an affiliated corporation of the
licensee that is a supervised financial institution, or a parent or
subsidiary of a supervised financial institution that is an affiliate
of the licensee, may be provided, offered, or sold at the licensed
location of the licensee without authorization by the commissioner
pursuant to subdivision (a) if (1) the activity is not prohibited by,
or in violation of, the laws applicable to the affiliate or
supervised financial institution, and (2) the products and services
are not offered and sold in a manner that restricts the ability of
the borrower or customer to individually select or reject a product
or service that is offered.
(c) The following definitions govern the construction of this
section:
(1) "Affiliated" or "affiliate" means the following: A corporation
is an affiliate of, or a corporation is affiliated with, another
specified corporation if it directly, or indirectly through one or
more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common
control with, the other specified corporation.
(2) "Supervised financial institution" means any commercial bank,
industrial bank, credit card bank, trust company, savings and loan
association, savings bank, credit union, California finance lender,
residential mortgage lender or servicer, or insurer, provided that
the institution is subject to supervision by an official or agency of
this state or of the United States.