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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="12-1008" title_number="12" title_name="Credit Regulations" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Credit Grantor Closed End Credit Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>If the agreement governing a loan permits, a credit grantor may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>For a nonconsumer borrower, charge a higher periodic percentage rate or rates of interest on the amount of outstanding unpaid payments or portions of payments under the loan which are in default; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>For any borrower, impose:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A late or delinquency charge on payment or portions of payments; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If payment is made with a check that is dishonored on the second presentment, a charge not to exceed $15.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In the case of a loan to a consumer borrower, no late or delinquency charge may be charged unless the agreement, note, or other evidence of the loan permits. No more than 1 late or delinquency charge may be imposed for any single payment or portion of payment, regardless of the period during which it remains in default.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>For the purposes of subsection (b) of this section, all payments by the borrower shall be applied to satisfaction of scheduled payments in the order in which they become due.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Charges permitted under this section may not be considered interest or finance charges under the agreement.</text>
  </level>
</section>
