Section 5-19-30 Penalty for violations. A creditor who willfully makes charges in excess of those permitted by Section 5-19-3 or a creditor who willfully engages in the business of making loans in violation of subsection (a) of Section 5-19-22, or both, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a […]
Section 5-19-31 Nonapplicability of chapter to certain transactions; certain laws not repealed or amended. (a) The provisions of this chapter, except the provisions of subdivision (1) of Section 5-19-1 and Section 5-19-3, shall not apply (i) to any consumer credit transaction or other transaction involving an interest in real property or the sale, lease, or […]
Section 5-19-32 Service contracts. Any creditor who extends credit with respect to a consumer credit sale, may sell or finance, or both, a service contract covering tangible goods which are the subject of the consumer credit sale. Any other person who was not the creditor with regard to the initial sale of the tangible goods […]
Section 5-19-33 Account maintenance fee. (a) In addition to other lawful charges permitted under various state or federal laws, except under open-end credit plans, a creditor may, if provided in the contract, charge an account maintenance fee of not more than three dollars ($3) for each month of the scheduled period of repayment of the […]
Section 5-19-4 Additional charges for default or deferral; prepayment; renewal or refinancing; real property transactions. (a) When a scheduled payment in a consumer credit transaction is in default 10 days or more, the creditor may charge and collect a late charge not exceeding the greater of eighteen dollars ($18) or five percent of the amount […]
Section 5-19-5 Acceptance of negotiable instruments as evidence of consumer debt. In a consumer credit sale, the seller may not take as evidence of the obligation of the buyer, a negotiable instrument other than (1) a check; or (2) a promise or order containing a statement, required by applicable statutory or administrative law, to the […]
Section 5-19-6 Copies of instruments signed by debtors to be furnished to debtors; required statement in contracts, etc.; limitation on disclosure requirements; intent, applicability of limitation. (a) Any creditor, when extending credit with respect to a consumer credit transaction, other than under an open-end credit plan, shall at that time furnish to the debtor a […]
Section 5-19-7 Right to refinance amount of certain scheduled payments. With respect to a consumer credit transaction, if any scheduled payment is more than one and one-half times as large as the average of earlier scheduled payments, the debtor has the right to refinance the amount of that payment at the time it is due […]
Section 5-19-8 Assignee of seller subject to claims and defenses of buyer. With respect to a consumer credit sale, an assignee of the rights of the seller is subject to all claims and defenses of the buyer against the seller arising out of the sale, notwithstanding an agreement to the contrary, but the assignee’s liability […]
Section 5-19-9 Application of payments when buyer indebted to same seller for two or more consumer credit sales. When the buyer is indebted to a particular seller for two or more consumer credit sales of goods and the goods which were the subject of two or more sales secure the buyer’s total debt to the […]
