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Cal. FIN § 1405

This is the official text of Cal. FIN § 1405, part of California’s Financial Code — regulates banks, credit unions, lenders, and other financial institutions.

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Official statutory text

(a) Notwithstanding Section 10145 of the Business and Professions Code or any other provision of law, benefits accruing from the placement in an interest bearing account of a financial institution of funds received by a real estate broker, as defined in Section 10131 of the Business and Professions Code, who collects payments or provides services for an institutional investor in connection with a loan secured by commercial real property may inure to the real estate broker, if agreed to in writing by the real estate broker and that institutional investor as to that loan.

(b) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:

(1) “Commercial real property” means real estate improved with other than a one-to-four family residence.

(2) “Financial institution” means any institution the business of which is engaging in financial activities as described in Section 1843(k) of Title 12 of the United States Code.

(3) “Institutional investor” has the meaning set forth in subdivision (i) of Section 50003.

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