Cal. FIN § 1670
This is the official text of Cal. FIN § 1670, part of California’s Financial Code — regulates banks, credit unions, lenders, and other financial institutions.
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Official statutory text
In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) “Branch business unit” has the meaning set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 4840.
(b) “Core banking business” means the business of receiving deposits, paying checks, making loans, and other activities that the commissioner may specify by order or regulation. “Core banking business,” when used to describe the trust business, includes receiving fiduciary assets and administering fiduciary accounts.
(c) “Facility,” when used with respect to a foreign (other state) bank, means an office in this state at which the bank engages in noncore banking business but at which it does not engage in core banking business.
(d) “Noncore banking business” means all activities permissible for commercial banks, industrial banks, or trust companies, except core banking business, and except those activities prohibited by law or determined by the commissioner by regulation or order not to be noncore banking business.
(e) “Whole business unit” has the meaning set forth in subdivision (g) of Section 4840.
(a) “Branch business unit” has the meaning set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 4840.
(b) “Core banking business” means the business of receiving deposits, paying checks, making loans, and other activities that the commissioner may specify by order or regulation. “Core banking business,” when used to describe the trust business, includes receiving fiduciary assets and administering fiduciary accounts.
(c) “Facility,” when used with respect to a foreign (other state) bank, means an office in this state at which the bank engages in noncore banking business but at which it does not engage in core banking business.
(d) “Noncore banking business” means all activities permissible for commercial banks, industrial banks, or trust companies, except core banking business, and except those activities prohibited by law or determined by the commissioner by regulation or order not to be noncore banking business.
(e) “Whole business unit” has the meaning set forth in subdivision (g) of Section 4840.
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