California Financial Code 50317 – (a) Any person who has been convicted of, or pleaded nolo …
(a) Any person who has been convicted of, or pleaded nolo contendere to any crime specified in subdivision (b) within the past 10 years or has been held liable in any civil action by final judgment or any administrative judgment by any public agency within the past seven years, of any of the provisions specified in subdivision (b), shall not serve as an officer, director, partner, shareholder controlling 10 percent or more of the ownership interests, trustee, or employee of a residential mortgage lender or residential mortgage loan servicer. This subdivision shall not apply to any person whose office, employment, ownership interest, or other participation in the business of a licensed residential mortgage lender or residential mortgage loan servicer commenced prior to January 1, 1995, or whose criminal conviction, plea, or judgment occurred prior to January 1, 1995.
(b) Subdivision (a) applies to criminal convictions of, pleas of nolo contendere to, or civil or administrative judgments entered for offenses including the following:
Terms Used In California Financial Code 50317
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. Source: OCC
- Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- 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.
- Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. Source: OCC
- Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
- Person: includes any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, limited liability company, syndicate, estate, trust, business trust, or organization of any kind. See California Financial Code 18
- Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(1) Offenses specified in Chapter 18 (commencing with Section 3350) of Division 1.
(2) Offenses specified in Article 4 (commencing with Section 5300) of Chapter 1 of Division 2.
(3) Offenses specified in Article 8 (commencing with Section 14750) of Chapter 4 of Division 5.
(4) Offenses specified in Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 17700) of Division 6.
(5) Offenses specified in Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 18435) of Division 7.
(6) Offenses specified in provisions of the laws of the United States added or amended by the federal Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 (Public Law 101-73).
(7) Offenses involving robbery, burglary, theft, embezzlement, fraud, fraudulent conversion or misappropriation of property, forgery, bookmaking, receiving stolen property, counterfeiting, extortion, checks, credit cards, or computer violations specified in § 502 of the Penal Code. For the purpose of this section, but not Section 50318, an offense does not include a conviction for which the person has obtained a certificate of rehabilitation from a court of competent jurisdiction under Section 1203.4 or 4852.13 of the Penal Code or a similar certificate of rehabilitation obtained in a foreign jurisdiction.
(c) On and after January 1, 1995, any officer, director, or other person who seeks a controlling ownership interest of 10 percent or more in the business of a licensed residential mortgage lender or residential mortgage loan servicer shall, as a condition to obtaining that interest or participation, authorize the commissioner to have access to that person’s state summary criminal history information, as defined in § 11105 of the Penal Code, for purposes of determining whether the person has a prior conviction of, or pleaded nolo contendere to, a criminal offense specified in subdivision (b).
(d) Any state summary criminal history information obtained pursuant to this section shall be kept confidential and no recipient shall disclose the contents other than for the purpose of acquisition of an ownership interest in or other participation in the business of a licensed residential mortgage lender or residential mortgage loan servicer.
(e) Any person who knowingly violates subdivision (a), including, but not limited to, any residential mortgage lender or residential mortgage loan servicer who permits an ownership interest in or other participation in the business of a residential mortgage lender or residential mortgage loan servicer in violation of subdivision (a) shall, upon conviction, be subject to punishment as set forth in Section 50500.
(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit the reinstatement of any person barred by the commissioner pursuant to Section 50320 nor to prohibit the commissioner from bringing any action pursuant to Section 50320.
(g) If any provision of this section or the application of this section to any person or circumstances is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this section that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this section are severable.
(h) For purposes of this section, the term “employee” means (1) a mortgage loan originator, including a loan officer or other individual who negotiates agreements with the public, or (2) an individual with access to or responsibility for trust funds held by the licensee.
(Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 160, Sec. 73. (SB 36) Effective October 11, 2009.)