KRS 136.520 — Conditions constituting regularly engaging in business in the Commonwealth by financial institutions

(1) A financial institution is presumed to be regularly engaging in business in this
Commonwealth if during any taxable year it obtains or solicits business with twenty
(20) or more persons within this Commonwealth, or if receipts attributable to
sources in this Commonwealth as would be determined pursuant to the provisions
of KRS 136.530(2) equals or exceeds one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000). In
determining whether a financial institution is regularly engaging in business in this
Commonwealth, receipts from the following types of property, as well as those
contacts with this Commonwealth reasonably and exclusively required to evaluate
and complet e the acquisition or disposition of the property, the servicing of the
property or the income from it, the collection of income from the property, or the
acquisition or liquidation of collateral relating to the property, shall be excluded:
(a) An interest in a real estate mortgage investment conduit, a real estate
investment trust, or a regulated investment company;
(b) An interest in a loan -backed security representing ownership or participation
in a pool of promissory notes or certificates of interest tha t provide for
payments in relation to payments or reasonable projections of payments on the
notes or certificates;
(c) An interest in a loan or other asset from which the interest is attributed to a
consumer loan, a commercial loan, or a secured commercial loan, and in
which the payment obligations were solicited and entered into by a person that
is independent, and not acting on behalf of the owner;
(d) An interest in the right to service or collect income from a loan or other asset
from which interest on the loan is attributed as a loan described in paragraph
(c) of this subsection, and in which the payment obligations were solicited and
entered into by a person that is independent and not acting on behalf of the
owner; and
(e) Any amounts held in an escro w or trust account with respect to property
described in paragraphs (a) to (d) of this subsection.
(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall be interpreted to reach to the limits permitted by
the United States Constitution.