2022 Idaho Code
Title 30 - CORPORATIONS
Chapter 9 - IDAHO ESCROW ACT
Section 30-905 - EXEMPT PERSONS AND TRANSACTIONS.
30-905. EXEMPT PERSONS AND TRANSACTIONS. The requirements of this chapter do not apply to:
(1) Any person licensed to practice law in this state while engaged in the performance of his professional duties, except an attorney or law firm actively engaging in a separate business as an escrow agency;
(2) Any person licensed or chartered under the laws of any state or of the United States as a bank, savings and loan association, credit union or industrial loan company as well as wholly-owned subsidiaries and affiliates of such organizations;
(3) Title insurance companies having a valid certificate of authority, and title insurance agents having a valid license as a title insurance agent, issued by the Idaho department of insurance;
(4) Any real estate company, broker or salesperson licensed by and subject to the jurisdiction of the Idaho real estate commission, while performing acts in the course of or incidental to sales or purchases of real or personal property handled or negotiated by such real estate company, broker or salesperson;
(5) Any receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, executor, administrator, guardian or other person acting under the supervision or order of any court of this state or of any federal court;
(6) A person licensed in this state as a certified public accountant while engaged in the performance of his professional duties who is not actively engaged in a separate business as an escrow agency;
(7) Any state or federally chartered nondepository financial institution;
(8) Regulated lenders subject to the requirements of the Idaho credit code, chapters 41 through 46, title 28, Idaho Code, to the extent not engaged in a separate business as an escrow agency;
(9) Agencies of the United States and agencies of this state and their political subdivisions;
(10) Mortgage brokers and mortgage lenders subject to the requirements of the Idaho residential mortgage practices act, chapter 31, title 26, Idaho Code, to the extent not engaged in a separate business as an escrow agency; or
(11) A mortgage company to the extent that such mortgage company is regularly engaged in the business of a mortgage company as defined in the mortgage company act, chapter 28, title 26, Idaho Code.
History:
[30-905, added 2005, ch. 236, sec. 2, p. 718.]
