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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="12-1106" title_number="12" title_name="Credit Regulations" subtitle_number="11" subtitle_name="Maryland Rental-Purchase Agreement Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A consumer who fails to make a timely rental payment may reinstate the rental-purchase agreement, without losing any rights or options that exist under the rental-purchase agreement, if within 5 days of the renewal date, for a consumer who renews on a monthly basis, or within 2 days of the renewal date, for a consumer who renews on a weekly basis, the consumer pays:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>All past due rental charges;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the rental property has been picked up or repossessed, the reasonable costs of pickup and redelivery; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Any applicable reinstatement fee, which may not exceed $5.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A consumer who has paid less than two-thirds of the total of payments necessary to acquire ownership of the rental property and who has returned or voluntarily surrendered the rental property without judicial process during the applicable reinstatement period under subsection (a) of this section or who has made the property available for pickup at the request of the lessor, whichever occurs last, may reinstate the rental-purchase agreement prior to a date not less than 21 days after the date of the return of the rental property.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A consumer who has paid two-thirds or more of the total of payments necessary to acquire ownership of the rental property and who has returned or voluntarily surrendered the rental property without judicial process during the applicable period set forth in subsection (a) of this section or who has made the property available for pickup at the request of the lessor, whichever occurs last, may reinstate the rental-purchase agreement prior to a date not less than 45 days after the date of the return of the rental property.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Nothing in this section shall prevent a lessor from repossessing the property during the reinstatement period, but a repossession may not affect the consumer’s right to reinstate. After reinstatement, the lessor shall provide the consumer with the same rental property or a substitute property of comparable quality and condition.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A lessor may repossess property under a rental-purchase agreement if the consumer is in default of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Any sum due under the agreement; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The performance of any promise the breach of which is expressly made a ground for repossessing the property.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A lessor may repossess property only by legal process or self-help without the use of force. Nothing in this section authorizes a violation of criminal law.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>At the time of repossession of the property, the lessor shall deliver to the consumer a written notice which states the right of the buyer to reinstate the rental-purchase agreement, the last date by which the consumer may reinstate the agreement, and the amount payable for reinstatement.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The consumer may reinstate the rental-purchase agreement within 15 days after the date of repossession by paying:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>All past due rental charges;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The reasonable costs of pickup and redelivery; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>A reinstatement fee of $5.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
