Sec. 2301.254.  LICENSE NOT REQUIRED FOR CERTAIN VEHICLE LESSORS OR VEHICLE LEASE FACILITATORS.  (a)  A person is not required to obtain a license to act as a vehicle lessor or a vehicle lease facilitator if the person is:
(1)  a state or federally chartered financial institution or a regulated subsidiary of the financial institution;  or
(2)  a trust or other entity that owns an interest in a vehicle lease and the vehicle that is the subject of the lease, if the lease covering the vehicle is initiated, managed, serviced, and administered by a licensed vehicle lessor.
(b)  A franchised dealer is not required to have a vehicle lessor or vehicle lease facilitator license to engage in any capacity in the business of leasing a motor vehicle that the dealer owns and is licensed under this chapter to sell.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1421, Sec. 5, eff. June 1, 2003.