2005 California Financial Code Sections 200 Article 1. General

200.  (a) In this section:
   (1) "Business and industrial development corporation" means a
corporation licensed under Division 15 (commencing with Section
31000).
   (2) "Payment instrument" has the same meaning as set forth in
Section 33059.
   (3) "Traveler's check" has the same meaning as set forth in
Section 1852.
   (b) There is in the state government, in the Business,
Transportation and Housing Agency, a Department of Financial
Institutions which has charge of the execution of, among other laws,
the laws of this state relating to any of the following:  (1) banks
or trust companies or the banking or trust business; (2) savings
associations or the savings association business; (3) credit unions
or the credit union business; (4) persons who engage in the business
of receiving money for transmission to foreign nations or such
business; (5) issuers of traveler's checks or the traveler's check
business; (6) issuers of payment instruments or the payment
instrument business; (7) business and industrial development
corporations or the business and industrial development corporation
business, or (8) insurance premium finance agencies or the insurance
premium finance business.