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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>84988</law_id><section_number>6.2-1156</section_number><catch_line>Activities that are not considered &amp;#8220;doing business.&amp;#8221;</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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="II">Depository Institutions and Trust Organizations</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="11">Savings Institutions</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="5">Foreign Savings Institutions; Acquisitions by Out-Of-State Savings Institutions or Out-Of-State Savings Institution Holding Companies</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>For the purposes of this chapter and any other <span class="dictionary">law</span> of the Commonwealth prohibiting, limiting, regulating, charging or taxing the doing of business in the Commonwealth by <span class="dictionary">foreign savings institutions</span> or foreign corporations of any type, any <span class="dictionary">federal savings institution</span> the principal place of business of which is located outside the Commonwealth, and any <span class="dictionary">foreign savings institution</span> that is subject to state or federal supervision, or both, that by <span class="dictionary">law</span> is subject to periodic examination by such supervisory authority and to a requirement of periodic audit, shall not be considered to be doing business or to have a tax situs or nexus in or with the Commonwealth by reason of engaging in any of the following activities:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The purchase, acquisition, inspection, appraisement, holding, sale, assignment, transfer, collecting, and enforcement of obligations or any interest therein secured by real estate mortgages, deeds of trust, or other similar instruments, covering real property located in the Commonwealth, or the foreclosure of such instruments, or the acquisition of title to such property by foreclosure, or otherwise, as a result of <span class="dictionary">default</span> under such instruments, or the holding, protection, rental, maintenance and operation of said property so acquired, or the <span class="dictionary">disposition</span> thereof; or <a id="paragraph-304642" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1156/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> The advertising or solicitation of deposit <span class="dictionary">accounts</span>, or the making of any representations with respect thereto in the Commonwealth through the media of the mail, radio, television, magazines, newspapers, or any other media that are published or circulated within the Commonwealth, if (i) such advertising, solicitation or the making of such representations is accurately descriptive of <span class="dictionary">fact</span> and (ii) no such advertising, solicitation, or the making of such representations contains any reference to insurance or guarantee of <span class="dictionary">accounts</span>, unless the <span class="dictionary">accounts</span> of such institution are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or other insurer approved by the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>. <a id="paragraph-304643" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1156/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1985, c. 425, &#xA7; 6.1-194.48; 1990, c. 3; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
