Small Loan Companies

From home, she worked with her daughter to make the product, and for each she made a history before she sold it at her first store in Brighton. An $10,000 loan was helping to bring the relationship through a hard first year, but one in which they would get a series of enthusiastic ratings from several game publishers.

However, for relatively small credits that are easy to obtain, many still look for a commercial loan that can really disburse itself in the long run.

Tribunal decides that small credit institutions are exempt from the Virginia Consumer Protection Act.

Recently, in a landmark judgment, a Virginia District Courts found - twice - that small credit institutions are exempted from the Virginia Consumer Protection Act ("VCPA"). The Circuit court for the City of Richmond, in its initial verdict delivered at the end of January, dismissed the Virginia Attorney General's Office case, which held that the legal indemnity only applied to small credit businesses under license.

In declaring that it was "bound by the pure meanings of language", the Court refused to include the term "licensed" in the exception provided for in Virginia Code § 59.1-199 (D) for "small enterprises". It also dismissed the Prosecutor General's arguement that the indemnity only applied to microfinance enterprises "regulated and overseen by the State Corporation Commission or a similar federally regulatory authority.

In application of the "rule of the last predecessor", the Court found that the qualifying rate applied only to "insurance undertakings", the kind of undertakings that immediately preceded the rate. Though the Virginia Act does not provide for a definition of'micro-credit company', the Court finds that the concept means 'undertakings, as in the present case, granting micro-credit'.

Judicial records have shown that the entity in question spent $250 to $1,500 in line of credit. to $1,500. A second verdict was handed down at the end of last week, when the Tribunal rejected the Prosecutor General's request for review, thereby strengthening the precedence of the judgment. Businesses covered by the UCPA can be fined severely for a large number of widely delineated offences.

It is therefore anticipated that the tax exemption of small credit enterprises will have a significant effect on the regulation environment. Court upheld the Minister of Justice's allegation that the corporation is governed by other Virginia legislation on retail funding. Troutman Sanders LLP represents the group.