40-19-102. Definitions.
(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Administrator" means the state banking commissioner;
(ii) "Advertisement" means a commercial message in any medium that solicits a consumer to enter a rental-purchase agreement;
(iii) "Business day" means any day other than Sunday or a legal holiday;
(iv) "Cash sale price" means the price stated in a rental-purchase agreement for which the merchant would have sold and the consumer would have bought the property which is the subject matter of a rental-purchase agreement if the transaction had been a sale for cash. The cash sale price may include any applicable taxes to the extent imposed on the cash sale;
(v) "Consumer" means an individual who rents property under a rental-purchase agreement to be used primarily for personal, family or household purposes;
(vi) "Consummation" means the date on which a consumer enters a rental-purchase agreement;
(vii) "Fee" means any payment, charge, fee, cost or expense whether mandatory or optional that a consumer pays in addition to periodic payments in connection with a rental-purchase agreement;
(viii) "Merchant" means a person who regularly provides the use of property under rental-purchase agreements and to whom rental payments are initially payable on the face of the rental-purchase agreement;
(ix) "Periodic payment" means the rent a consumer pays weekly, monthly or otherwise for the use of property pursuant to a rental-purchase agreement;
(x) "Property" means personal property of which a consumer acquires use under a rental-purchase agreement;
(xi) "Rental-purchase agreement" means an agreement between a consumer and merchant for the use of property by the consumer primarily for personal, family or household purposes:
(A) For an initial period of four (4) months or less;
(B) That is automatically renewable with each payment after the initial period;
(C) That does not obligate or require the consumer to continue renting or using the property beyond the initial period; and
(D) That permits the consumer to become the owner of the property.
(xii) "This act" means W.S. 40-19-101 through 40-19-120.
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