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Section 1315.22 | Application for license to operate check-cashing business.

...nt is an individual, the individual's exact name and residence address; (b) If the applicant is a partnership, the exact name and residence address of each member of the partnership; (c) If the applicant is a corporation or association, the exact name and residence address of each director and principal officer of the corporation or association. (2) The complete address of the principal office or offices from whic...

Section 1315.23 | Investigation of applicant for license - issuance or renewal of license - hearing prior to suspension, revocation or refusal of license.

...r state. (b) The applicant has satisfactory work experience, a government certification, or a private certification as described in that chapter in the business of cashing checks in a state that does not issue that license. (C)(1) A license issued to a check-cashing business shall remain in full force and effect through the thirty-first day of December following its date of issuance, unless earlier surrendered,...

Section 1315.24 | Investigation of violations - hearings - injunctive relief.

...ate in the manner provided for in civil actions, pay any witnesses the fees and mileage for their attendance provided for under section 119.094 of the Revised Code, and administer oaths. The superintendent also may compel by order or subpoena duces tecum the production of, and examine, all relevant books, records, accounts, and other documents. If a person does not comply with a subpoena or subpoena duces ...

Section 1315.25 | Conditions for deposit of checks into financial institution.

...On and after January 1, 1993, no check-cashing business shall deposit, in a financial institution, any check cashed by the check-cashing business unless both of the following conditions are met: (A) The check is indorsed with the name of the check-cashing business that appears on its license. (B) The words "licensed check-cashing business" are written legibly or stamped immediately after or below the name of the in...

Section 1315.26 | Limitations on fees and charges.

...(A) No check-cashing business shall charge check-cashing fees or other check-cashing charges in an amount that exceeds three per cent of the face amount of the check for cashing checks issued by this state, a state agency, a political subdivision of this state, or the United States. (B) Each check-cashing business shall conspicuously post and at all times display in every business location a schedule of its fees and...

Section 1315.27 | Rules.

...concilement that: (a) Summarizes daily activity; (b) Reconciles cash-on-hand at the opening of business to cash-on-hand at the close of business; (c) Separately reflects cash received from the sale of checks, cash disbursed in cashing of checks, redemption of returned items, bank cash deposits, and bank cash withdrawals. (2) Maintain a general ledger that: (a) Contains records of all assets, liabilities, capital...

Section 1315.28 | Prohibited acts - damages for violation.

... any incorrect statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact in any application made, investigation conducted, or hearing held pursuant to sections 1315.22 to 1315.24 of the Revised Code. (B) No person shall: (1) Obstruct or refuse to permit any lawful investigation by the superintendent of financial institutions, a person acting on behalf of an agency of the state or a political subdivision, or a l...

Section 1315.30 | State to solely regulate check-cashing business.

...y such business is conducted. By the enactment of sections 1315.21 to 1315.30 of the Revised Code, it is the intent of the general assembly to preempt municipal corporations and other political subdivisions from the regulation and licensing of check-cashing businesses.

Section 1315.51 | Transaction reporting, money laundering definitions.

...Conduct the business" means engaging in activities regulated under sections 1315.51 to 1315.55 of the Revised Code. (B) "Corrupt activity" has the same meaning as in section 2923 of the Revised Code. (C) "Knowingly" has the same meaning as in section 2901.22 of the Revised Code. (D) "Material" means a statement or omission that can affect the course or outcome of a transaction, regardless of whether or not the per...

Section 1315.52 | Liberal construction of statutes.

...Sections 1315.51 to 1315.55 of the Revised Code shall be liberally construed to effectuate their remedial purposes.

Section 1315.53 | Reporting transactions - records.

...suant to the "Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act," 84 Stat. 1118 (1970), 31 U.S.C.A. 5311 to 5326 and 31 C.F.R. part 103 or 12 C.F.R. 21.11, shall file a duplicate of that report with the attorney general. (B) All persons engaged in a trade or business, who receive more than ten thousand dollars in money in one transaction or who receive more than ten thousand dollars in money through two or more relate...

Section 1315.54 | Investigations.

...ode or has engaged or is engaging in an act, practice, or transaction that constitutes a violation of a provision of sections 1315.51 to 1315.55 of the Revised Code. (B) On request of the attorney general, a money transmitter shall make the money transmitter's books and records available to the attorney general during normal business hours for inspection and examination in connection with an investigation conducte...

Section 1315.55 | Additional prohibited activities.

...ll conduct or attempt to conduct a transaction knowing that the property involved in the transaction is the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity with the purpose of committing or furthering the commission of corrupt activity. (2) No person shall conduct or attempt to conduct a transaction knowing that the property involved in the transaction is the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity with the intent to ...

Section 1315.99 | Penalty.

...(A) Whoever violates division (A) or (B) of section 1315.28 or division (E)(2) of section 1315.53 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (B) Whoever violates division (F)(1) of section 1315.53 or division (B) of section 1315.54 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree. (C) Whoever violates division (A) of section 1315.55 of the Revised Code is guilty of money...

Section 1317.01 | Retail installment sale definitions.

...Cooperates with the creditor to channel consumers to the creditor on a continuing basis; (2) Is affiliated with the creditor by common control, contract, or business arrangement. If a credit card issued by a bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, or credit union is used by a consumer in a particular consumer transaction, the bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, or credit union is not a credi...

Section 1317.02 | Buyer's copy.

...is prima-facie proof of delivery in any action to enforce any obligation arising out of the retail installment sale. The written instrument shall contain all of the agreements of the parties, and shall set forth specifically all items and matters required by sections 1317.01 to 1317.11, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The reference to insurance shall recite generally the type of insurance the retail seller has agreed...

Section 1317.03 | Evidence of indebtedness.

...A retail seller may require a retail buyer to execute and deliver a promissory note to evidence the indebtedness created by a retail installment sale, and, to secure the payment of the indebtedness created by the sale or evidenced by the promissory note or to secure the performance of any other condition of the sale, may require the retail buyer to execute and deliver a security agreement to give the retail seller a ...

Section 1317.031 | Inclusion of holder in due course.

...lment note or a retail installment contract in connection with a consumer transaction may assert against any holder, assignee, or transferee of the note or contract, specifically including any holder in due course, as defined in section 1303.32 of the Revised Code, of the note or contract any defense that the buyer may assert against the seller that is authorized by this chapter.

Section 1317.032 | Asserting defenses against holder, assignee, or transferee of purchase money loan installment note or retail installment contract.

...A buyer who is entitled to assert in an action in connection with a consumer transaction any of the following defenses against the seller of goods or services that are obtained pursuant to a purchase money loan installment note or retail installment contract may also assert the defenses against the holder, assignee, or transferee of the purchase money loan installment note or retail installment contract, whether or n...

Section 1317.04 | Separate items to be listed in written instrument.

...nce owed on the retail installment contract which is the sum total of divisions (C) and (D). (F) The amount of the finance charge. (G) The time balance or indebtedness owed by the retail buyer to the retail seller and the number of installment payments required and the amount and date of each payment necessary finally to pay the time balance which is the sum total of divisions (E) and (F). Divisions (D) and (F)...

Section 1317.05 | Insurance provisions; debt cancellation or debt suspension products.

...on product" includes a guaranteed asset protection waiver, guaranteed auto protection waiver, or other similarly named agreement. A debt cancellation or debt suspension product, and an addendum to a retail installment contract containing a debt cancellation or debt suspension product, shall be considered a part of the retail installment contract and shall remain a part of that contract upon the assignment, sale, or...

Section 1317.06 | Finance charge - rates - service charge - contract for payment of delinquent charges.

...il installment sale may charge and contract for the payment of a finance charge by the retail buyer and collect and receive the same, which shall not exceed the greater of the following: (1) A base finance charge at the rate of eight dollars per one hundred dollars per year on the principal balance of the retail installment contract. On retail installment contracts providing for principal balances less than, nor not...

Section 1317.061 | Retail seller or holder may contract for and receive alternative finance charges or interest.

...ode, a retail seller or holder may contract for and receive finance charges or interest at any rate or rates agreed upon or consented to by the parties to the retail installment contract or revolving budget agreement, but not exceeding an annual percentage rate of twenty-five per cent.

Section 1317.062 | Retail seller or holder may contract for and receive alternative delinquent charges.

...ode, a retail seller or holder may contract for and receive delinquent charges in any amount agreed upon or consented to by the parties to the retail installment contract or revolving budget agreement. (2) Each retail installment contract and revolving budget agreement permitting delinquent charges in accordance with division (A)(1) of this section shall contain a statement that clearly and concisely informs the con...

Section 1317.07 | Requirements of retail installment contract.

...No retail installment contract authorized by section 1317.03 of the Revised Code that is executed in connection with any retail installment sale shall evidence any indebtedness in excess of the time balance fixed in the written instrument in compliance with section 1317.04 of the Revised Code, but it may evidence in addition any agreements of the parties for the payment of delinquent charges, as provided for in secti...