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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80540</law_id><section_number>6.2-100</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>3.2-6513.2</reference><reference>54.1-2012</reference><reference>55.1-1209.1</reference><reference>64.2-2003</reference><reference>8.01-513</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="6.2">Financial Institutions and Services</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">General Provisions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Definitions and General Provisions</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Definitions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this title, unless the context otherwise requires:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Bureau</span>&#x201D; means the <span class="dictionary">Bureau</span> of <span class="dictionary">Financial Institutions</span>, a division of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Commission</span>&#x201D; means the State Corporation <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>&#x201D; means the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> of <span class="dictionary">Financial Institutions</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Commission</span>&#x2019;s Rules&#x201D; means the rules of practice and procedure prescribed by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Rules of practice and procedure" href="/12.1-25/">12.1-25</a>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Entity</span>&#x201D; means any corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, government, political subdivision, or other legal or commercial <span class="dictionary">entity</span>.
		&#x201C;Finance charge&#x201D; has the meaning assigned to it in Consumer Financial Protection <span class="dictionary">Bureau</span> Regulation Z, 12 C.F.R. &#xA7;&#xA0;1026.4, as amended.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Financial institution</span>&#x201D; means any bank, trust company, savings institution, industrial loan association, consumer finance company, or credit union.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Person</span>&#x201D; means any individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, government, political subdivision, or other legal or commercial <span class="dictionary">entity</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 6-1; 1966, c. 584, &#xA7; 6.1-1; 1970, c. 270, &#xA7; 6.1-2.1; 1976, c. 658; 1978, c. 683; 1983, c. 491; 1996, c. 16; 2010, c. 794; 2016, c. 501.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
