Sec. 2. In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
"Director" refers to the director of the department.
"Pawn" means lending money on the deposit or pledge of personal property, or purchasing personal property on the condition of selling the property back again at a stipulated price, with the condition indicated verbally, in a written agreement, or in any other form indicating that the seller may repurchase the personal property sold. For purposes of this chapter, "personal property" does not include general intangibles, accounts (including deposit accounts), chattel paper, commercial tort claims, documents, instruments, investment property, letter-of-credit rights, letters of credit, money, or oil, gas, or other minerals before extraction.
"Pawnbroker" means any person, partnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation that engages in the pawn business.
"Pledge" means personal property deposited with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
"Pledger" means the person who delivers personal property into the possession of a pawnbroker as security for a loan. However, if the person delivering the personal property into the possession of the pawnbroker discloses that the person is acting for another, "pledger" means the disclosed principal.
"Department" means the department of financial institutions.
"Person" means any individual, limited liability company, sole proprietorship, partnership, trust, joint venture, corporation, unincorporated organization, or other form of entity, however organized.
"Month" means a period extending from a given date in one (1) calendar month to the like date in the succeeding calendar month or, if there is no such like date, then to the last day of the succeeding calendar month. For purposes of this chapter, each month is considered to have thirty (30) days.
Formerly: Acts 1935, c.195, s.2. As amended by P.L.263-1985, SEC.183; P.L.14-1992, SEC.131; P.L.42-1993, SEC.74; P.L.258-2003, SEC.11; P.L.10-2006, SEC.38 and P.L.57-2006, SEC.38; P.L.90-2008, SEC.47; P.L.137-2014, SEC.29.
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