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...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 indorser.

...chedule of its fees and charges for all services permitted under sections 1315.21 to 1315.28 of the Revised Code.

...requirements that require check-cashing businesses to do all of the following: (1) Maintain a daily cash reconcilement 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...

...(A) No check-cashing business shall knowingly make 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 agen...

...te persons engaged in the check-cashing business and the manner in which any 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.

...eemable by the issuer in merchandise or service, a credit card voucher, or a letter of credit. (H) "Proceeds" means property acquired or derived directly or indirectly from, produced through, realized through, or caused by an act or omission and includes property of any kind. (I) "Property" means anything of value and includes an interest in property, including a benefit, privilege, claim, or right with respect to ...

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

... is required to file a report regarding business conducted in this state pursuant 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 wh...

...smitter or person engaged in a trade or business has failed to file a report required by section 1315.53 of the Revised Code 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 ...

...(A)(1) 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 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...

...(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...

...reditor 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 creditor, within the meaning of this division, with respect to the particular consumer transaction. (R) "Dealer" and "moto...

...Every retail installment sale shall be evidenced by an instrument in writing. A copy of said instrument shall be delivered to the retail buyer by the retail seller at the time of its execution. An acknowledgment of the delivery thereof contained in the body of the instrument is prima-facie proof of delivery in any action to enforce any obligation arising out of the retail installment sale. The written instrument shal...

...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 ...

...Notwithstanding section 1303.35 of the Revised Code, a buyer who executes a purchase money loan installment 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 m...

...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 not any notice of potential claims and defenses is included in the note or contract: (1) That the subject of t...

...The written instrument evidencing a retail installment sale and required by section 1317.02 of the Revised Code shall recite the following: (A) The cash price of the specific goods. (B) The amount in cash of the retail buyer's down payment, if any, whether made in money or goods or partly in money or partly in goods. (C) The unpaid balance of the cash price payable by the retail buyer to the retail seller which...

...(A) Any retail seller who, in any retail installment contract, has agreed to purchase insurance for the retail buyer and to extend credit for the price thereof, excluding single interest insurance, shall, prior to the due date of the first installment of the retail installment contract, deliver to the retail buyer personally, or mail or cause to be mailed to the retail buyer at the retail buyer's address as shown on ...

...il seller may charge and contract for a service charge of fifty cents per month for the first fifty dollar unit or fraction thereof, of the principal balance for each month of the term of the installment contract; and an additional service charge of twenty-five cents per month for each of the next five fifty dollar units or fraction thereof, of the principal balance for each month of the term of the installment contr...

...As an alternative to the finance charges permitted in division (A) of section 1317.06 of the Revised Code or the interest permitted in division (B) of that section, and to the finance charges permitted in division (B) of section 1317.11 of the Revised Code, 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 i...

...(A)(1) As an alternative to the delinquent charges permitted in division (B) of section 1317.06 and division (B) of section 1317.11 of the Revised Code, 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 p...

...ng paid on May 9, 1949, in a particular business and area may be charged if the charge does not exceed two hundred fifty dollars per sale, except as otherwise authorized by section 4517.261 of the Revised Code. No retail seller shall use multiple agreements with respect to a single item or related items purchased at the same time, with intent to obtain a higher charge than would otherwise be permitted by Chapter 13...

...debt. If debts arising from two or more sales are thus secured or are consolidated into one debt payable on a single schedule of payments, and the debt is secured by security interests taken with respect to one or more of the sales, payments received by the seller after the taking of security interests in the other property or the consolidation are deemed, for the purpose of determining the amount of the debt secured...

...(A)(1) No retail installment contract that evidences an indebtedness greater than that allowed under sections 1317.06, 1317.061, 1317.062, and 1317.07 of the Revised Code, and no retail installment contract in connection with which any charge prohibited by sections 1317.01 to 1317.11 of the Revised Code has been contracted for or received, shall be enforceable with respect to that excess indebtedness or charge agains...

...Notwithstanding any retail installment contract to the contrary, any retail buyer may satisfy in full at any time before maturity the debt of any retail installment contract and in so satisfying such debt shall receive a refund credit thereon for such anticipation of payments. The amount of such refund shall represent at least as great a proportion of the total finance charge, less an acquisition cost of ten dollars,...