(a) The finance lender, broker, or program administrator license shall state the name of the licensee, and if the licensee is a partnership, the names of its general partners, and if a corporation or an association, the date and place of its incorporation or organization, and the address of the licensee’s principal business location. On the approval and licensing of a location pursuant to Section 22101 or 22102, the commissioner shall issue an original license endorsed to show the address of the authorized location and, if applicable, the name of the subsidiary corporation licensed to operate the location. The license shall state whether the licensee is licensed as a finance lender, broker, or program administrator.

(b) (1) An application for a license for a business location outside this state shall constitute an agreement by the applicant to do all of the following:

(A) Make the licensee’s books, accounts, papers, records, and files available to the commissioner or the commissioner’s representatives in this state.

(B) Pay the reasonable expenses for travel, meals, and lodging of the commissioner or the commissioner’s representatives incurred during any investigation or examination made at the licensee’s location outside this state.

(2) A licensee located outside this state is not required to maintain books and records regarding licensed loans separate from those for other loans if the licensed loans can be readily identified.

(c) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2019.

(Repealed (in Sec. 35) and added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 475, Sec. 36. (AB 1284) Effective October 4, 2017. Section operative January 1, 2019, by its own provisions.)