All counties, municipalities, or political subdivisions of this state are prohibited from enacting and enforcing ordinances, resolutions, and rules regulating financial and lending activities, including ordinances, resolutions, and rules disqualifying persons from doing business with a city, county, or municipality based upon lending practices, interest rates or imposing reporting requirements or any other obligations upon persons regarding financial services or lending practices of persons or entities, and any subsidiaries or affiliates thereof, who:

(1) Are subject to the jurisdiction of the department of financial institutions, including activities subject to this chapter;
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 45-20-110

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Department: means the department of financial institutions. See Tennessee Code 45-20-102
  • Deposit: means a deposit of money, bonds or other things of value, creating a debtor-creditor relationship. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) Source: OCC
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • 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
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(2) Are subject to the jurisdiction of the office of thrift supervision, the office of the comptroller of the currency, the national credit union administration, the federal deposit insurance corporation, the federal trade commission, or the United States department of housing and urban development;
(3) Originate, purchase, sell, buy, secure, or service property interests or obligations created by financial transactions or loans made, executed, or originated by persons referred to in subdivision (1) or (2) to assist or facilitate the transactions; or
(4) Are chartered by the United States congress to engage in secondary market mortgage transactions.
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