Inapplicability of Article 3 to certain entities or uses.

Sec. 4. Article 3 does not apply to any of the following entities or uses: (a) A person that is acting under a court order, warrant, or subpoena. (b) A person that administers a credit file monitoring subscription service to which a consumer or protected consumer has subscribed. (c) A person that provides a consumer or the consumer's representative with a copy of the consumer's credit report on request of the consumer or the representative. (d) A check services or fraud prevention services company that issues any of the following: ( i ) Reports on incidents of fraud. ( ii ) Authorizations for the purpose of approving or processing negotiable instruments, electronic funds transfers, or similar payment methods. (e) A deposit account information service company that issues reports regarding account closures due to fraud, substantial overdrafts, or automated teller machine abuse or provides similar information regarding a consumer to inquiring banks or other financial institutions for use only in reviewing a consumer request for a deposit account at the inquiring bank or financial institution. (f) A consumer reporting agency database or file that consists entirely of consumer information concerning, and used solely for, 1 or more of the following: ( i ) Criminal record information. ( ii ) Personal loss history information. ( iii ) Fraud prevention or detection. ( iv ) Employment screening. ( v ) Tenant screening. (g) A consumer reporting agency that meets both of the following: ( i ) It is only engaged in reselling resell credit information by assembling and merging information contained in a database of 1 or more consumer reporting agencies. ( ii ) It does not maintain a permanent database of credit information it obtains for purposes of subparagraph ( i ). History: 2013, Act 229, Eff. Jan. 1, 2014