§ 802. Exemptions. This article shall not apply to, and shall not place any additional requirements or obligations upon, any of the following:

Terms Used In N.Y. Financial Services Law Law 802

  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Open-end credit: A credit agreement (typically a credit card) that allows a customer to borrow against a preapproved credit line when purchasing goods and services. The borrower is only billed for the amount that is actually borrowed plus any interest due. (Also called a charge account or revolving credit.) Source: OCC
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC

(a) a financial institution;

(b) a person acting in its capacity as a technology services provider, such as licensing software and providing support services, to an entity exempt under this section for use as part of the exempt entity's commercial financing program, provided such person has no interest, or arrangement or agreement to purchase any interest in the commercial financing extended by the exempt entity in connection with such program;

(c) a lender regulated under the federal Farm Credit Act (12 U.S.C. Sec. 2001 et seq.);

(d) a commercial financing transaction secured by real property;

(e) a lease as defined in section 2-A-103 of the uniform commercial code;

(f) any person or provider who makes no more than five commercial financing transactions in this state in a twelve-month period;

(g) an individual commercial financing transaction in an amount over two million five hundred thousand dollars; or

(h) a commercial financing transaction in which the recipient is a dealer as defined in § 415 of the vehicle and traffic law, or an affiliate of such a dealer, or a rental vehicle company as defined in § 396-z of the general business law, or an affiliate of such a company pursuant to a commercial financing agreement or commercial open-end credit plan of at least fifty thousand dollars, including any commercial loan made pursuant to such a commercial financing transaction.