(a)CA Financial Code § 300(a) In this section:
(1)CA Financial Code § 300(a)(1) “Business and industrial development corporation” means a corporation licensed under Division 15 (commencing with Section 31000).
(2)CA Financial Code § 300(a)(2) “Payment instrument” has the same meaning as set forth in Section 2003.
(3)CA Financial Code § 300(a)(3) “Stored Value” has the same meaning as set forth in subdivision (x) of Section 2003.
(b)CA Financial Code § 300(b) There is in the state government, in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, a Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, which has charge of the execution of, among other laws, the laws of this state relating to any of the following: (1) banks or trust companies or the banking or trust business; (2) savings associations or the savings association business; (3) credit unions or the credit union business; (4) persons who engage in the business of receiving money for transmission or such business; (5) issuers of stored value or such business; (6) issuers of payment instruments or the payment instrument business; (7) business and industrial development corporations or the business and industrial development corporation business; (8) insurance premium finance agencies or the insurance premium finance business; (9) persons offering or making any contract constituting bucketing; (10) persons offering or selling
off-exchange commodities; (11) deferred deposit originators; (12) finance lenders and brokers; (13) residential mortgage lenders and servicers; (14) capital access companies; (15) check sellers, bill payers, and proraters; (16) securities issuers, broker-dealers, agents, investment advisers, and investment adviser representatives; (17) mortgage loan originators employed or supervised by finance lenders or residential mortgage lenders; (18) escrow agents; (19) franchisors; (20) persons holding securities as custodians on behalf of securities owners; (21) persons offering or providing consumer financial products or services in this state; and (22) PACE program administrators.
