This chapter does not apply to:

(1) Any bank, trust company, credit union, building and loan association, savings bank or mutual bank organized under the laws of any state or the United States;

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 45-18-103

  • Bank: means any person, as hereinafter defined, doing a banking business subject to the laws of this or any other jurisdiction and, for the purposes of supervision, examination and liquidation, includes industrial investment companies and industrial banks authorized by chapter 5 of this title. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
  • Check: means any payment instrument. See Tennessee Code 45-18-102
  • Consideration: means and includes any premium charged for the sale of goods, or services provided in connection with the sale of the goods that is in excess of the cash price of the goods or services. See Tennessee Code 45-18-102
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Person: means any individual, partnership, association, trust, corporation, limited liability company, or other group, however organized, but does not include the governments of the United States or this state or any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof. See Tennessee Code 45-18-102
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Trust company: means a state trust company or any other company chartered to act as a fiduciary that is neither a depository institution nor a foreign bank. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(2) Persons who offer a check cashing service without receiving, directly or indirectly, any consideration or fee; and
(3) Persons engaged in the cashing of payment instruments that is incidental to the retail sale of goods or services, whose compensation for cashing payment instruments at each site does not exceed five percent (5%) of the gross receipts from the retail sale of goods or services by the person during the person’s most recently completed fiscal year.
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