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Home » US Law » 2022 West Virginia Code » Chapter 46A. West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act » Article 1. Short Title, Definitions and General Provisions » §46A-1-103. Effect of Chapter on Powers of Persons Making Consumer Credit Sales and Consumer Loans, and Others; Consumer Protection Generally

(1) This chapter prescribes maximum charges for all creditors, except lessors and those excluded, making consumer credit sales and consumer loans, and sales and loans made subject to the provisions of this chapter by agreement, and except as otherwise provided by this chapter displaces any existing limitations and provisions regulating maximum interest and charges, minimum charges, additional charges, delinquency charges, deferral charges, allocation of charges and methods of computing rebates upon prepayment, refinancing or consolidation with respect to consumer credit sales and consumer loans, and the debtors' remedies and penalties provided by this chapter displace all existing provisions relating to remedies, penalties and forfeitures for usury and usurious contracts as to transactions covered by this chapter.