This chapter does not apply to:

1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 675.035, a person doing business under the authority of any law of this State or of the United States relating to banks, national banking associations, savings banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations, credit unions, mortgage companies, thrift companies, pawnbrokers or insurance companies.

2. A real estate investment trust, as defined in 26 U.S.C. § 856.

3. An employee benefit plan, as defined in 29 U.S.C. § 1002(3), if the loan is made directly from money in the plan by the plan’s trustee.

4. An attorney at law rendering services in the performance of his or her duties as an attorney at law if the loan is secured by real property.

5. A real estate broker rendering services in the performance of his or her duties as a real estate broker if the loan is secured by real property.

6. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, any firm or corporation:

(a) Whose principal purpose or activity is lending money on real property which is secured by a mortgage;

(b) Approved by the Federal National Mortgage Association as a seller or servicer; and

(c) Approved by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

7. A person who provides money for investment in loans secured by a lien on real property, on his or her own account.

8. A seller of real property who offers credit secured by a mortgage of the property sold.

9. A person holding a nonrestricted state gaming license issued pursuant to the provisions of chapter 463 of NRS.

10. A person licensed to do business pursuant to chapter 604A of NRS with regard to those services regulated pursuant to chapter 604A of NRS.

11. A person who exclusively extends credit to any person who is not a resident of this State for any business, commercial or agricultural purpose that is located outside of this State.

12. Except as otherwise required by the Director of the Department of Business and Industry pursuant to NRS 657A.430 or 657A.620, a participant in the Regulatory Experimentation Program for Product Innovation established and administered pursuant to chapter 657A of NRS.

(Added to NRS by 1959, 227; A 1983, 153, 1313; 1989, 1064; 1991, 818; 1995, 1100; 1999, 3810; 2003, 3578; 2005, 1713; 2007, 945; 2013, 1251; 2017, 801, 3104; 2019, 3997, effective January 1, 2020)