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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 7. BANKING AND FINANCE · Chapter 3. INSTALLMENT LOANS · Article 2. OPERATING PROCEDURES

7-3-12. Limitation on further charges.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. No licensee shall charge, contract for, or receive any other or further amount in connection with any loans authorized by this chapter in addition to those provided in Code Section 7-3-11, except the actual lawful fees paid to a public official or agency of the state for filing, recording, or, on loans over $100.00, the amount of the lawful premiums, no greater than such fees, actually paid for insurance against the risk of nonrecording or releasing any instrument securing the loan; the court costs and attorney fees authorized by law incurred in the collection of any contract in default; and the actual and reasonable expenses of repossessing, storing, and selling any collateral pledged as security for any contract in default. No licensee shall divide into separate parts any contract for the purpose or with the effect of obtaining charges in excess of those authorized by this chapter.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1904, p. 79, §§ 10, 12; Civil Code 1910, §§ 3459, 3461; Ga. L. 1920, p. 215, § 13; Code 1933, §§ 25-214, 25-216, 25-313, 25-316; Ga. L. 1935, p. 394, § 2; Ga. L. 1955, p. 431, § 16; Code 1981, § 7-3-15; Code 1981, § 7-3-12, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2020, p. 156, § 2/SB 462.

Editor's notes

Former Code Section 7-3-12, concerning books, records, and reports, was repealed by Ga. L. 2020, p. 156, § 2/SB 462, effective June 30, 2020. The former Code section was based on Ga. L. 1904, p. 79, § 6; Civil Code 1910, §§ 3454, 3455; Ga. L. 1920, p. 215, § 11; Code 1933, §§ 25-209, 25-210, 25-310; Ga. L. 1955, p. 431, § 10; Ga. L. 1989, p. 14, § 7.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

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