26-2502. EXCEPTIONS. This chapter shall not apply to:

(a) Any person doing business under any law of this state or of the United States relating to banks, credit unions, trust companies, savings and loan associations, insurers, pension trusts, real estate investment trusts and other financial institutions, or under the Idaho credit code;

(b) Any corporation, association, syndicate, joint stock company, or partnership engaged exclusively in the business of marketing agricultural, horticultural, viticultural, dairy, livestock, poultry, or bee products on a cooperative nonprofit basis in loaning or advancing money to the members thereof or in connection with any such business;

(c) Any corporation securing money or credit from any federal intermediate credit bank organized and existing pursuant to the provisions of an act of congress entitled "Agricultural Credits Act of 1923," in loaning or advancing money or credit so secured;

(d) Any person who is a F.H.A. (Federal Housing Administration) approved mortgagor;

(e) Loans made by a broker-dealer licensed under the Idaho securities act if the loan is made in accordance with applicable provisions of the Idaho securities act, the securities act of 1933, the securities exchange act of 1934 and regulation T of the federal reserve board, code of federal regulations, part 220 of title 12; or

(f) Fees and charges authorized by laws of this state or the laws of the United States if the maximum charge and the manner of collecting the charge are set out in the law or in regulations adopted under the law.

(g) Any person licensed as a mortgage broker or mortgage banker pursuant to chapter 31, title 26, Idaho Code.

History:

[26-2502, added 1979, ch. 298, sec. 1, p. 780; am. 1996, ch. 324, sec. 2, p. 1108; am. 1998, ch. 337, sec. 4, p. 1083.]