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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>84303</law_id><section_number>6.2-1503</section_number><catch_line>Scope of chapter</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>6.2-1500</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="III">Other Regulated Providers of Financial Services</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="15">Consumer Finance Companies</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>This chapter shall not apply to:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Any business transacted by any <span class="dictionary">person</span> under the authority of and as permitted by any <span class="dictionary">law</span> of the Commonwealth or of the United States relating to banks, savings institutions, trust companies, building and loan associations, industrial loan associations, or credit unions; <a id="paragraph-302197" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1503/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Any bona fide pawnbroking business transacted under a pawnbroker&#x2019;s license; or <a id="paragraph-302198" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1503/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Any <span class="dictionary">person</span> operating in accordance with the specific provisions of any other provision of this title currently in effect or hereafter enacted. <a id="paragraph-302199" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1503/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 6-280; 1966, c. 584, &#xA7; 6.1-250; 1996, c. 16; 2000, c. 192; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
