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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="12-103" title_number="12" title_name="Miscellaneous Institutions and Activities" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Check Cashing Services">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This subtitle does not apply to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Any bank, trust company, savings bank, savings and loan association, or credit union incorporated or chartered under the laws of this State or the United States that maintains its principal office in this State;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any out-of-state bank, as defined in § 5-1001 of this article, having a branch that accepts deposits in this State; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Any institution incorporated under federal law as a savings association or savings bank that does not maintain its principal office in this State but has a branch that accepts deposits in this State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A subsidiary or affiliate of an institution described in subsection (a) of this section is exempt from all requirements of licensing under this subtitle provided the subsidiary or affiliate:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is subject to audit or examination by a regulatory body or agency of this State, the United States, or the state where the subsidiary or affiliate maintains its principal office; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Submits to the Commissioner in writing and prior to providing check cashing services the following information:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The subsidiary’s or affiliate’s name and address, and the names and addresses of each:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Owner who owns 5% or more of the subsidiary or affiliate; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Officer, director, or principal of the subsidiary or affiliate;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <level label="1">
          <text>Each address at which check cashing services will be provided; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>If a mobile unit will be used to provide check cashing services, the vehicle identification number of the mobile unit and the geographic area in which the mobile unit will be operating; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Any other information that the Commissioner requests.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An exempt entity is not subject to the provisions of §§ 12-106 through 12-112, inclusive, and § 12-122 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An exempt entity is subject to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The provisions of §§ 12-113 through 12-121, inclusive, and §§ 12-123 through 12-127, inclusive, of this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Any regulation, except to the extent the regulation concerns licensing, adopted under this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
