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...(A) If a collection agency has been designated to collect on a check, negotiable order of withdrawal, share draft, or other negotiable instrument that has been returned or dishonored for any reason, the collection agency may charge and receive check collection charges of not more than thirty dollars or ten per cent of the face amount of the instrument, whichever is greater, and may charge and receive any charge impos...

...on, limited liability company, or other commercial entity, whether for profit or not for profit. (2) "Commercial credit report" means any report provided to a business for a legitimate business purpose, relating to the financial status or payment habits of a business that is the subject of the report. "Commercial credit report" does not include any of the following: (a) A report prepared for commercial insurance ...

...ns, and all other legal entities. (2) "License" means a license issued under sections 1321.01 to 1321.19 of the Revised Code to make loans at a single place of business. (3) "Licensee" means a person to whom one or more licenses have been issued. (4) "Principal amount" means the amount of cash paid to, or paid or payable for the account of, the borrower. (5) "Interest" means all charges payable directly or indire...

... loan of money if the lender were not a licensee, without first having obtained a license from the division of financial institutions under sections 1321.01 to 1321.19 of the Revised Code. Sections 1321.01 to 1321.19 of the Revised Code do not apply to any person doing business under and as permitted by any law of this state, another state, or the United States relating to banks, savings banks, savings societies, tr...

...Application for a license shall be in writing, under oath, and in the form prescribed by the division of financial institutions, and shall contain the name and address of the applicant, and, if the applicant is a partnership or association, of every member thereof, and, if a corporation, of each officer and director thereof; also the approximate location where the business is to be conducted and such further relevant...

...the application and issue and deliver a license to the applicant if the division finds both of the following: (1) That the financial responsibility, experience, and general fitness of the applicant and of the members thereof, if the applicant is a partnership or an association, and of the officers and directors thereof, if the applicant is a corporation, are such as to warrant the belief that the business will be o...

...Each license shall state the address at which the business is to be conducted and shall state fully the name of the licensee. Each license shall be kept conspicuously posted in the place of business of the licensee and is not transferable or assignable. Each license shall remain in effect until surrendered, revoked, or suspended under section 1321.08 or 3123.47 of the Revised Code. Every licensee shall each year pa...

...ness shall be maintained under the same license issued under sections 1321.01 to 1321.05 of the Revised Code, but the division of financial institutions may issue additional licenses to the same licensee upon compliance with such sections. No change in the place of business of a licensee to a location outside the original municipal corporation shall be permitted under the same license. When a licensee wishes to cha...

...ans, books, papers, and records of each licensee so far as they pertain to the licensed business, and it may make such an examination more frequently if it is necessary for the proper administration of sections 1321.01 to 1321.19 of the Revised Code. For the purpose of discovering violations, the division may at any time investigate the business and examine the books, accounts, papers, and records used therein, of:...

...tions shall, upon written notice to the licensee stating the contemplated action and the grounds therefor, and upon reasonable opportunity to be heard, suspend or revoke any license issued by the division if it finds that: (1) The licensee is in default in the payment of the annual license fee or assessment prescribed in section 1321.20 of the Revised Code or has failed to comply with any order of the division made ...

...(A) Every licensee shall keep and use in the licensee's business such books, accounts, and records as will enable the division of financial institutions to determine whether the licensee is complying with sections 1321.01 to 1321.19 of the Revised Code and with the orders and rules made by the division under those sections. Every licensee shall preserve such books, accounts, and records for at least two years after m...

...py of every rule shall be mailed to all licensees. (B) The division may, whenever it has reasonable cause to believe that any person has violated, is violating, or is threatening to or intends to violate sections 1321.01 to 1321.19 of the Revised Code, enter an order requiring the person to desist or to refrain from such violation; and an action may be brought on the relation of the superintendent to enjoin the pers...

...No licensee or other person subject to sections 1321.01 to 1321.19 of the Revised Code shall advertise, display, distribute, or broadcast or cause or permit to be advertised, displayed, distributed, or broadcast, any false, misleading, or deceptive statement or representation with regard to the rates, terms, or conditions for loans made under those sections. The division of financial institutions shall require that c...

...No licensee shall conduct the business of making loans under sections 1321.01 to 1321.19 of the Revised Code, within any office, room, or place of business in which any other business is solicited or engaged in, or in association or conjunction therewith, if the division of financial institutions finds, after hearing, that the other business is of such nature that such conduct tends to conceal evasion of those sectio...

...ther provisions of the Revised Code, a licensee may contract for and receive interest, calculated according to the actuarial method, at a rate or rates not exceeding twenty-eight per cent per year on that portion of the unpaid principal balance of the loan not exceeding one thousand dollars and twenty-two per cent per year on any part of the unpaid principal balance exceeding one thousand dollars. A licensee m...

... section 1321.16 of the Revised Code, a licensee may contract for and receive interest at any rate or rates agreed upon or consented to by the parties to the loan contract or open-end loan agreement, but not exceeding an annual percentage rate of twenty-five per cent.

...Licensees under section 1321.01 of the Revised Code shall: (A) At the time any interest-bearing or precomputed loan is made, deliver to the borrower or, if there are two or more borrowers, to one of them, a statement in the English language disclosing in clear and distinct terms the amount and date of the loan, a schedule of payments or a description thereof, the type of the security, if any, for the loan, the name ...

...(A) A licensee shall not make a loan under sections 1321.01 to 1321.19 of the Revised Code that meets either of the following conditions: (1) The amount of the loan is one thousand dollars or less. (2) The loan has a duration of one year or less. (B) A licensee shall not engage in any act or practice to evade the requirement of division (A) of this section, including by assisting a borrower to obtain a loan on ...

...(A) No licensee shall knowingly induce or permit any person, jointly or severally, to be obligated, directly or contingently or both, under more than one contract of loan at the same time for the purpose or with the result of obtaining a higher rate of interest or greater charges than would otherwise be permitted upon a single loan made under sections 1321.01 to 1321.19 of the Revised Code. (B) No licensee shall...

...(A) A licensee may make open-end loans pursuant to an agreement between the licensee and the borrower whereby: (1) The licensee may permit the borrower to obtain advances of money from the licensee from time to time or the licensee may advance money on behalf of the borrower from time to time as directed by the borrower. (2) The amount of each advance and permitted interest, charges, and costs are debited to the bo...

...except as to licensing if the lender is licensed under and in accordance with a regulatory loan law similar in principle to such sections. A loan in an amount of five thousand dollars or less made to a borrower residing in this state at the time the loan is made by a lender whose office is located outside this state and whose primary business consists of making loans by mail is not enforceable in this state for a gre...

...other remedy that may be available, any licensee and any person alleging to be aggrieved by an order or action of the division of financial institutions, within thirty days from the entry of the order complained of, or within sixty days of the action complained of if there is no order, may file a complaint against the superintendent of financial institutions in the court of common pleas of Franklin county. Such compl...

...ect a cancellation or alteration of any license or right of a licensee, provided that such cancellation or alteration shall not impair or affect the obligation of any pre-existing contract between any licensee and any borrower, nor the right of the licensee to collect principal, interest, and charges as set forth in said obligation.

...(A) Every person licensed or registered under this chapter shall pay to the superintendent of financial institutions, prior to the last day of June, an annual license or certificate of registration fee. On or about the fifteenth day of April of each year, the superintendent shall determine the license or certificate fees to be charged, pursuant to sections 1321.03, 1321.05, and 1321.73 of the Revised Code. Such d...

...All fees, charges, penalties, and forfeitures collected under Chapters 1321., 1322., 4712., 4727., and 4728., sections 1315.21 to 1315.30, and sections 1349.25 to 1349.37 of the Revised Code shall be paid to the superintendent of financial institutions and shall be deposited by the superintendent into the state treasury to the credit of the consumer finance fund, which is hereby created. The fund may be expended or o...