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§ 75-67-127. Requirements for making and payment of loans; confession of judgment; incomplete instruments; penalty

MS Code § 75-67-127 (2019) (N/A)
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(1) Every licensee shall:

(a) At the time any loan is made, deliver to the borrower, or if there are two (2) or more borrowers to one (1) of them, a statement in the English language, disclosing (i) the date of the loan, (ii) the amount of the loan, (iii) the schedule of payments or a description thereof, (iv) the type of the security, which may be by mortgage or deed of trust upon real estate or personal property, or both, (v) the name and address of the licensed office and of each person primarily obligated on the note, and (vi) the total amount of finance charges expressed as a dollar amount and as an annual percentage rate.

(b) For each payment made on account of any such loan, give to the person making it at the time the payment is made a receipt specifying in plain, clear and simple terms the amount of the payment and the balance owing on the combined principal and finance charges after credit for each payment. When payment is made by check or money order, the licensee shall not be required to furnish a receipt. Compliance with the Federal Truth in Lending Act shall constitute compliance with this section.

(c) When loans made or handled by a licensee under the provisions of the Small Loan Privilege Tax Law are paid in full prior to maturity, after July 1, 1974, whether by cash, renewal or otherwise, refund to the borrower the finance charge exceeding one dollar ($1.00) calculated on the rule of the sum of the digits, commonly known as the “Rule of 78ths.” The refund shall be based and calculated on the number of days by which the loan is paid in advance, less twenty (20) days.

(d) Upon repayment of the loan in full, release any mortgage or security agreement and restore any pledge unless such mortgage, security agreement or pledge continues to secure an obligation to the licensee, and cancel and return any note and any assignment given to the licensee for the loan which is repaid.

(2) No licensee shall:

(a) Take any confession of judgment or any power of attorney running to himself or to any third person to confess judgment or to appear for the borrower in a judicial proceeding; nor

(b) take any note, promise to pay, or instrument of security that does not disclose the amount of the loan before the addition of precomputed charges, a schedule of payments or a description thereof, the agreed rate of charge, nor any instrument in which blanks are left to be filled in after the loan is made.

(3) Any contract of loan in the making or collection of which any provision of this section shall have been violated, either knowingly or without the exercise of due care to prevent the same, shall be void and the licensee shall have no right to collect or receive any principal, charges or recompense whatsoever.

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§ 75-67-127. Requirements for making and payment of loans; confession of judgment; incomplete instruments; penalty