604A.400  Unlawful acts; criminal penalties.

1.  A person, including, without limitation, a person licensed pursuant to chapter 675 of NRS, shall not operate a check-cashing service, deferred deposit loan service, high-interest loan service or title loan service unless the person is licensed with the Commissioner pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.

2.  A person must have a license regardless of the location or method that the person uses to operate such a service, including, without limitation, at a kiosk, through the Internet, through any telephone, facsimile machine or other telecommunication device or through any other machine, network, system, device or means, except that the person shall not operate such a service through any automated loan machine in violation of the provisions of subsection 3.

3.  A person shall not operate a deferred deposit loan service or high-interest loan service through any automated loan machine, and the Commissioner shall not issue a license that authorizes the licensee to conduct business through any automated loan machine.

4.  Any person, and any member, officer, director, agent or employee thereof, who violates or participates in the violation of any provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Added to NRS by 2005, 1688; A 2005, 22nd Special Session, 97; 2007, 934)