For purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section.

(1) “Financial institution” means any person or persons engaged in the business of making loans or extending credit, including, but not limited to state and federal banks, savings and loan associations, trust companies, industrial loan companies, consumer finance lenders, commercial finance lenders, credit unions and small business investment companies.

(2) “Person” means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, syndicate, estate, trust, business trust or organization of any kind.

(3) “Nonprofit association” means an unincorporated or incorporated association of natural persons for religious, scientific, social, literary, educational, recreational, benevolent or other purpose not that of pecuniary profit.

(4) “Title company” means any person or persons engaged in the business of selling title insurance for real property.

(5) “Bail bonds” means any person or persons engaged in the business of selling and providing bail bonds in order to secure the temporary release of a prisoner.

(6) “Insurance agency” means any person or persons engaged in the business of selling insurance for persons and property. (Ord. No. 2437 (N.C.S), § 2.)