Texas Administrative Code
Title 7 - BANKING AND SECURITIES
Part 5 - OFFICE OF CONSUMER CREDIT COMMISSIONER
Chapter 83 - REGULATED LENDERS AND CREDIT ACCESS BUSINESSES
Subchapter A - RULES FOR REGULATED LENDERS
Division 2 - AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES
Section 83.205 - Loans by Mail or Online

Universal Citation: 7 TX Admin Code § 83.205

Current through Reg. 50, No. 13; March 28, 2025

(a) Definitions. The words "make," "negotiate," "arrange," and "collect" as used in Texas Finance Code, § 342.053(b) are to be construed according to the definitions contained in § 83.204(a) of this title (relating to Multiple Licenses).

(b) Application. Any office, wherever located, making, negotiating, arranging, or collecting loans by mail or online must be licensed. For example, if a lender receives and reviews loan applications at one office, makes the loan decision at another office, funds the loan at a third, and collects past-due payments from another, all of these offices involved in lending by mail or online must be licensed. On the other hand, an office that merely receives, records, accounts for, and processes payments need not be licensed.

(c) Authorized lenders. The following entities with offices located outside of Texas may make loans by mail or online to Texas residents and are considered to meet the definition of authorized lender as contained in § 83.102 of this title (relating to Definitions):

(1) a person who has obtained a regulated loan license from the OCCC;

(2) a bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, or credit union doing business under the laws of this state, another state, or the United States;

(3) a bank, savings bank, or savings and loan association chartered in another state and insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and

(4) a credit union chartered in another state and insured through the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund.

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