Nothing in this chapter shall apply to those situations involving debt adjusting incurred in the practice of law in this state.Nothing in this chapter shall apply to those persons or entities who incidentally engage in debt adjustment to adjust the indebtedness owed to said person or entity. Nothing in this chapter shall apply to the following entities or their subsidiaries: the Federal National Mortgage Association; the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation; a bank, bank holding company, trust company, savings and loan association, credit union, credit card bank, or savings bank that is regulated and supervised by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the National Credit Union Administration, or the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance; or persons as defined in Code Section 7-3-3 operating under Chapter 3 of Title 7, the "Georgia Installment Loan Act."
(Ga. L. 1956, p. 797, § 4; Ga. L. 2003, p. 392, § 3; Ga. L. 2015, p. 5, § 18/HB 90; Ga. L. 2015, p. 1088, § 18/SB 148; Ga. L. 2020, p. 156, § 9/SB 462.)
The 2020 amendment, effective June 30, 2020, substituted "Georgia Installment Loan Act" for "Georgia Industrial Loan Act" at the end of the Code section.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 15A Am. Jur. 2d, Collection and Credit Agencies, § 24.
ALR.- Validity, construction, and application of state debt adjusting statutes, 90 A.L.R.6th 1.