This chapter does not apply to:

(1) An operator of a payment system to the extent that the operator provides processing, clearing, or settlement services, between or among persons exempted by this section or licensees, in connection with wire transfers, credit card transactions, debit card transactions, stored-value transactions, automated clearing house transfers, or similar funds transfers;

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 45-7-104

  • Authorized delegate: means a person that a licensee designates to engage in money transmission on behalf of the licensee. See Tennessee Code 45-7-103
  • Bank: means any person, as hereinafter defined, doing a banking business subject to the laws of this or any other jurisdiction and, for the purposes of supervision, examination and liquidation, includes industrial investment companies and industrial banks authorized by chapter 5 of this title. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of financial institutions. See Tennessee Code 45-7-103
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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 45-7-103
  • Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) Source: OCC
  • Federally insured depository financial institution: means a bank, credit union, savings and loan association, trust company, savings association, savings bank, industrial bank, or industrial loan company organized under the laws of the United States or any state of the United States and that has federally insured deposits. See Tennessee Code 45-7-103
  • Foreign bank: means a foreign bank, as defined in the International Banking Act of 1978 §. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
  • Individual: means a natural person. See Tennessee Code 45-7-103
  • Licensee: means a person licensed under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 45-7-103
  • Monetary value: means a medium of exchange, whether or not redeemable in money. See Tennessee Code 45-7-103
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Person: means any individual, general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, corporation, trust, association, joint stock corporation, or other corporate entity identified by the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 45-7-103
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • 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
  • Trust company: means a state trust company or any other company chartered to act as a fiduciary that is neither a depository institution nor a foreign bank. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(2) A person appointed as an agent of a payee to collect and process a payment from a payor to the payee for goods or services, other than money transmission itself, provided to the payor by the payee; provided, that:

(A) There exists a written agreement between the payee and the agent directing the agent to collect and process payments from payors on the payee’s behalf;
(B) The payee holds the agent out to the public as accepting payments for goods or services on the payee’s behalf; and
(C) Payment for the goods and services is treated as received by the payee upon receipt by the agent so that the payor’s obligation is extinguished and there is no risk of loss to the payor if the agent fails to remit the funds to the payee;
(3) A person that acts as an intermediary by processing payments between an entity that has directly incurred an outstanding money transmission obligation to a sender, and the sender’s designated recipient; provided, that the entity:

(A) Is properly licensed or exempt from licensing requirements under this chapter;
(B) Provides a receipt, electronic record, or other written confirmation to the sender identifying the entity as the provider of money transmission in the transaction; and
(C) Bears sole responsibility to satisfy the outstanding money transmission obligation to the sender, including the obligation to make the sender whole in connection with any failure to transmit the funds to the sender’s designated recipient;
(4) The United States or a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States, or its agent to the extent of its operations in such capacity;
(5) A state, county, city, or any other governmental agency or governmental subdivision or instrumentality of a state, or its agent to the extent of its operations in such capacity;
(6) A federally insured depository financial institution, bank holding company, office of an international banking corporation, foreign bank that establishes a federal branch pursuant to 12 U.S.C. § 3102, corporation organized pursuant to the Bank Service Company Act (12 U.S.C. §§ 1861-1867), corporation organized under the Edge Act (12 U.S.C. §§ 611-633), or corporation organized under the laws of a state or the United States;
(7) A trust company organized under the laws of this state;
(8) Electronic funds transfer of governmental benefits for a federal, state, county, or governmental agency by a contractor on behalf of the United States or a department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, or on behalf of a state or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality thereof;
(9) A board of trade designated as a contract market under the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. §§ 1-27), or a person that, in the ordinary course of business, provides clearance and settlement services for a board of trade, to the extent of its operation as or for such a board;
(10) A person registered as a futures commission merchant under 7 U.S.C. § 6f, to the extent of its operation as such a merchant;
(11) A person registered as a securities broker-dealer under 15 U.S.C. § 78o or state securities laws, to the extent of its operation as such a broker-dealer;
(12) An individual employed by a licensee, an authorized delegate, or a person exempted from the licensing requirements of this chapter when acting within the scope of employment and under the supervision of the licensee, authorized delegate, or exempted person, as an employee and not as an independent contractor;
(13) A person expressly appointed as a third-party service provider to or agent of an entity exempt under subdivisions (6) or (7), solely to the extent that:

(A) The service provider or agent is engaging in money transmission on behalf of and pursuant to a written agreement with the exempt entity that sets forth the specific functions that the service provider or agent is to perform; and
(B) The exempt entity assumes all risk of loss and all legal responsibility for satisfying the outstanding money transmission obligations owed to purchasers and holders of the outstanding money transmission obligations upon receipt of the purchaser’s or holder’s money or monetary value by the service provider or agent;
(14) Transactions governed by title 56, or the rules promulgated solely under title 56; and
(15) A person who is exempt if the commissioner finds such exemption to be in the public interest and that the regulation of such person is not necessary for the purposes of this chapter.
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