Title FIN — California Fin. Code

The Credit Union Advisory Committee shall advise the commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation for the Office of Credit Unions on matters relating to credit unions or the credit union business.

(a) The Credit Union Advisory Committee consists of seven members. (b) The members of the Credit Union Advisory Committee shall be appointed by the Secretary of Business, Consumer Services, and Housing. (c) The term of a member of the Credit Union Advisory Committee is two years.…

The Credit Union Advisory Committee shall meet at least once each calendar quarter.

The commissioner may by order or regulation prescribe rules governing the Credit Union Advisory Committee and its members, including such matters as meetings, quorum, and actions.

An industrial loan company may: (a) Loan money, secured or unsecured, with or without the pledge of its installment investment certificates. (b) Collect and receive charges for loans in advance or otherwise. (c) Purchase, sell, or discount the following obligations: bona fide tru…

Sections 18008, 18009, 18010, 18212, 18212.1, 18214, 18219, 18220, 18222, 18230 through 18234, 18290 through 18295, and 18439 do not apply to: (a) Any bona fide loan of a principal amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or more or to an industrial loan company in connection wit…

Sections 18008, 18009, 18010, 18212, 18212.1, and 18214 do not apply to: (a) Any bona fide loan of a principal amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000) or more, or to an industrial loan company in connection with any bona fide loan of a principal amount of five thousand dollars (…

The payment of money, credit, goods, or things in action as consideration for any sale or assignment of, or order for, the payment of wages, salary, commissions, or other compensation for services, whether earned or to be earned, is, for the purposes of regulation under this divi…

Except as otherwise provided for in this division, an industrial loan company shall not make any loan or purchase or discount any other obligation that provides for a repayment of principal over more than 120 months and 30 days.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, an industrial loan company may make a loan or acquire an obligation that is repayable in unequal periodic payments during its term and that is secured by either real property or personal property. In order to ensure the safety…

Consumer loans made and obligations acquired that are secured by a motor vehicle and repayable other than in equal periodic payments during its term shall not exceed 50 percent of all consumer loans and obligations that are secured by motor vehicles or 20 percent of assets, which…

An industrial loan company may make a consumer loan that is not secured primarily by real property or other type of loan which is repayable at maturity by a single payment which includes principal and charges. In no event shall such loans have a term in excess of one year or be m…

An industrial loan company may make a consumer loan in which the principal and charges are payable at any time during the loan, provided that the loan is secured at all times at least 100 percent by either investment certificates of an industrial loan company authorized to conduc…

An industrial loan company may make loans, purchase or discount notes, mortgages, contracts or other commercial paper insured by the Federal Housing Administrator, Veterans Administration, other federal agency or an agency of the state. Loans so insured may be made for a term up …

(a) Except as provided in Sections 18205.5 and 18209 and subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), an industrial loan company shall not make any loan or purchase or discount any note secured primarily by real property unless the loan or other obligation is repayable in substantially e…

No charge shall be collected unless a loan is made, except that an industrial loan company may charge, contract for, and receive a fee in connection with making a written commitment to make a loan, secured by real property having a face amount in excess of five thousand dollars (…

(a) The charges by an industrial loan company, broker, and all other persons on any loan, forbearance of money, credit, goods, or things in action under this division, shall not exceed in the aggregate: (1) Two percent per month on that part of the unpaid principal balance of any…

As an alternative to the charges authorized by Section 18212 a licensee may contract for and receive charges at a rate not exceeding five-sixths of 1 percent per month plus a percentage per month equal to one-twelfth of the annual rate prevailing on the 25th day of the second mon…

In addition to the charges authorized by Section 18212 or 18212.1 an industrial loan company may contract for and receive an administrative fee, which shall be fully earned immediately upon making the loan, with respect to a loan of a principal amount of not more than two thousan…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law not within this division, industrial loan companies making loans pursuant to this division may not precompute interest on such loans.

For the purpose of computing the charges set forth in this article, a month is any period of 30 consecutive days.

An industrial loan company may contract for, collect, and receive at the time of making the loan or at any time thereafter, any of the following: (a) Any cost of publication as required by law. (b) The statutory fee paid by it to any public officer for acknowledging, filing, reco…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 18211, an appraisal fee may be charged to an applicant or borrower by an industrial loan company in connection with an application or request for any loan having a face amount in excess of five thousand dollars ($5,000) that is secured primarily by rea…

An escrow fee of a reasonable amount may be charged for any loan made which is secured primarily by real property when such services are actually performed. Such fee shall be considered reasonable when paid to a company licensed to do business under the Escrow Law, Division 6 (co…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, an industrial loan company, in the collection of a delinquent loan of an unpaid principal balance, may do any of the following: (a) Collect and receive the court costs and reasonable attorney’s fees allowed by a court in a jud…

With respect to a loan under this division, a fee not to exceed fifteen dollars ($15) for return by a depository institution of a dishonored check, negotiable order of withdrawal, or share draft may be charged and collected by the licensee. The fee is not included in charges as d…

An industrial loan company shall not induce or permit any borrower to split up or divide any loan and thereby contract for or receive a higher rate of charge than would otherwise be permitted by this division.

An industrial loan company shall not induce any spouses, jointly or severally, to become obligated, directly or contingently or both, under more than one contract of loan at the same time, with the result of obtaining a higher rate of charge than would otherwise be permitted by t…

Nothing in this division shall prevent an industrial loan company from transacting loan contracts with different borrowers and from contracting for and receiving, up to and including the highest rate of charge permitted by this division at the time of making said loans; provided,…

An industrial loan company shall permit payment to be made in advance in any amount on any contract of loan at any time. The industrial loan company shall apply such payment first to all charges due up to the date of such payment and the remainder to the loan balance.

Each industrial loan company shall display prominently in each place of business a full and accurate schedule of the maximum charges to be made and the method of computing the same. The schedule is subject to the approval of the commissioner.

Each industrial loan company shall: (a) Deliver or cause to be delivered to the borrowers, or any one thereof, at the time the loan is made, a written statement showing in clear and distinct terms the name and address of such company and the broker, if any. The statement shall sh…

An industrial loan company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the person making any payment in person in cash at any office of the company, at the time such payment is made on account of any loan, a plain and complete receipt showing the total amount received and identifyi…

An industrial loan company shall upon repayment of any loan in full, cancel or plainly mark “paid” and return to the borrower or person making final payment, the note evidencing the loan. If such borrower is not otherwise obligated to such company, the company shall release all s…

An industrial loan company shall not take any note, promise to pay, or security agreement that does not accurately disclose the actual amount of the loan, the time for which it is made, and the agreed rate of charge, nor any instrument in which blanks are left to be filled in aft…

(a) Subject to any regulations that the commissioner may issue, an industrial loan company may issue credit cards and may acquire or hold obligations resulting from the use of credit cards. (b) Except as the commissioner may otherwise provide by regulation or order, the acquiring…

An industrial loan company that has investment certificates outstanding shall not make any loan or purchase or discount any other obligation with a maturity of more than 60 months and 15 days unless all of the following conditions are met: (a) The loan or other obligation is secu…

(a) Except as set forth in subdivisions (b) and (c), any loan or obligation made or acquired by an industrial loan company that has investment certificates outstanding that is secured primarily by real property and has an outstanding principal balance of ten thousand dollars ($10…

An industrial loan company may make loans and acquire obligations, the proceeds of which are used for home improvements that are secured by real property having a market value of at least 100 percent of the principal amount owing on the loan being made by the industrial loan comp…

An industrial loan company shall file a written request for authorization to conduct business under Section 18266.1. The request shall include the following information: (a) A description of the company’s proposed plan of business. (b) The character, business qualifications, and …

The commissioner shall approve the request made pursuant to Section 18266.2 within 30 days after filing unless the commissioner has ascertained that the company has failed to show either of the following: (a) That the proposed plan of business has a reasonable promise of a succes…

An industrial loan company that has investment certificates outstanding shall not lend in the aggregate more than 5 percent of its capital stock and surplus not available for dividends as provided in Section 18319 upon the security of the stock of any one corporation and that sto…

An industrial loan company that has investment certificates outstanding shall not make any loan secured primarily by improved real property in a principal amount in excess of 20 percent of the company’s unimpaired capital stock and surplus not available for dividends as provided …

An industrial loan company may require the borrower to sign a contract of pledge, assignment, mortgage, security agreement, deed of trust, or trust receipt relating to real or personal property given by the borrower as security for the repayment of the loan and interest and charg…

An industrial loan company that has investment certificates outstanding shall not make loans to, or hold the obligations of, any one person as primary obligor in an aggregate principal amount in excess of 20 percent of the unimpaired capital stock and surplus of the company not a…

An industrial loan company shall diversify the loans and lease obligations it makes and other obligations it acquires, both as to the types of debtors and obligors, types of collateral, and as to terms and types of repayment schedules. The requirement for diversification notwiths…

The principal balances of loans made, or obligations purchased, by an industrial loan company that has investment certificates outstanding, which loans or obligations are secured by unimproved real property, shall not in the aggregate exceed 5 percent of the company’s assets unle…

(a) As used in this division: (1) “Credit life insurance” and “credit disability insurance” have the same meanings as defined in Section 779.2 of the Insurance Code. (2) “Credit loss-of-income insurance” means insurance issued to provide indemnity for payments becoming due on a s…

(a) If credit life or disability insurance is provided pursuant to this division, and if the insured borrower dies or becomes disabled during the term of the loan contract, the insurance shall be sufficient to pay the total amount due on the loan (excluding unearned charges) outs…

(a) If credit disability insurance is provided pursuant to this division, it shall not provide indemnity against the risk of a borrower becoming disabled for a period of less than 14 days. The insurance may provide indemnity for any single period of continuous disability of 14 da…