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Tex. Fin. Code § 352.001

DEFINITIONS

Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 135 (H.B. 1344), Sec. 1, eff

In this chapter:

(1) "Borrower" means an individual who receives the proceeds of a refund anticipation loan.

(2) "Facilitator" means a person who processes, receives, or accepts for delivery an application for a refund anticipation loan, delivers a check in payment of refund anticipation loan proceeds, or in any other manner acts to allow the making of a refund anticipation loan.

(3) "Lender" means a person who extends credit to a borrower in the form of a refund anticipation loan.

(4) "Refund anticipation loan" means a loan borrowed by a taxpayer based on the taxpayer's anticipated federal income tax refund.

(5) "Refund anticipation loan fee" means a fee imposed or other consideration required by the facilitator or the lender for a refund anticipation loan. The term does not include a fee usually imposed or other consideration usually required by the facilitator in the ordinary course of business for services not related to the making of loans, including a fee imposed for tax return preparation or for the electronic filing of a tax return.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.