1. A person who wishes to be licensed as a mortgage banker must file a written application for a license with the Office of the Commissioner and pay the fee required pursuant to NRS 645E.280. An application for a license as a mortgage banker must:

(a) Be verified.

(b) State the name, residence address and business address of the applicant and, if the applicant is a mortgage banker other than a wholesale lender, the location of each principal office and branch office at which the mortgage banker will conduct business in this State.

(c) State the location of any principal office, office or other place of business located outside this State from which the mortgage banker will conduct business in this State and any office or other place of business which the applicant maintains as a corporate or home office.

(d) State the name under which the applicant will conduct business as a mortgage banker.

(e) If the applicant is not a natural person, list the name, residence address and business address of each person who will have an interest in the mortgage banker as a principal, partner, officer, director or trustee, specifying the capacity and title of each such person.

(f) Indicate the general plan and character of the business.

(g) State the length of time the applicant has been engaged in the business of a mortgage banker.

(h) Include a financial statement of the applicant.

(i) Include a complete set of fingerprints for each natural person who is a principal, partner, officer, director or trustee of the applicant which the Division may forward to the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History for submission to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for its report.

(j) Include any other information required pursuant to the regulations adopted by the Commissioner or an order of the Commissioner.

2. If a mortgage banker will conduct business in this State at one or more branch offices, the mortgage banker must apply for a license for each such branch office.

3. Except as otherwise provided by law, the Commissioner shall issue a license to an applicant as a mortgage banker if:

(a) The application is verified by the Commissioner and complies with the requirements of this chapter, other applicable law and, if applicable, the Registry; and

(b) The applicant and each general partner, officer or director of the applicant, if the applicant is a partnership, corporation or unincorporated association:

(1) Has demonstrated financial responsibility, character and general fitness so as to command the confidence of the community and warrant a determination that the applicant will operate honestly, fairly and efficiently for the purposes of this chapter. For the purposes of this subparagraph, the factors considered in determining whether a person has demonstrated financial responsibility include, without limitation:

(I) Whether the person’s personal credit history indicates any adverse material items, including, without limitation, liens, judgments, disciplinary action, bankruptcies, foreclosures or failures to comply with court-approved payment plans;

(II) The circumstances surrounding any adverse material items in the person’s personal credit history; and

(III) Any instance of fraud, misrepresentation, dishonest business practices, the mishandling of trust funds or other types of comparable behavior.

(2) Has not been convicted of, or entered or agreed to enter a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to, a felony in a domestic, foreign or military court within the 7 years immediately preceding the date of the application, or at any time if such felony involved an act of fraud, dishonesty or a breach of trust, moral turpitude or money laundering.

(3) Has not made a false statement of material fact on the application.

(4) Has never had a license or registration as a mortgage agent, mortgage banker, mortgage broker or residential mortgage loan originator revoked in this State or any other jurisdiction or had a financial services license revoked within the immediately preceding 10 years.

(5) Has not violated any provision of this chapter or chapter 645B of NRS, a regulation adopted pursuant thereto or an order of the Commissioner.

4. If an applicant is a partnership, corporation or unincorporated association, the Commissioner may refuse to issue a license to the applicant if any member of the partnership or any officer or director of the corporation or unincorporated association has committed any act or omission that would be cause for refusing to issue a license to a natural person.

5. A person may apply for a license for an office or other place of business located outside this State from which the applicant will conduct business in this State if the applicant or a subsidiary or affiliate of the applicant has a license issued pursuant to this chapter for an office or other place of business located in this State or if the applicant will conduct business in this State only as a wholesale lender, and the applicant submits with the application for a license a statement signed by the applicant which states that the applicant agrees to:

(a) Make available electronically or at a location within this State the books, accounts, papers, records and files of the office or place of business located outside this State to the Commissioner or a representative of the Commissioner; or

(b) Pay the reasonable expenses for travel, meals and lodging of the Commissioner or a representative of the Commissioner incurred during any investigation or examination made at the office or place of business located outside this State.

The applicant must be allowed to choose between paragraph (a) or (b) in complying with the provisions of this subsection.

(Added to NRS by 1999, 3748; A 2001, 2045; 2003, 2726, 3560; 2011, 3627; 2015, 2803; R 2017, 3106, effective January 1, 2020)