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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="12-1108" title_number="12" title_name="Credit Regulations" subtitle_number="11" subtitle_name="Maryland Rental-Purchase Agreement Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>When a rental-purchase agreement is satisfied and replaced by a new rental-purchase agreement between the lessor and consumer, the lessor and consumer shall negotiate a new rental-purchase agreement requiring new disclosures.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The following do not require the negotiation of a new rental-purchase agreement:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The addition or return of rental property under a multiple-item agreement or the substitution of the rental property, if in either case the average payment allocable to a payment period is not changed by more than 25 percent;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A deferral or extension of 1 or more rental payments, or portions of a rental payment;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A reduction in charges in the rental-purchase agreement; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A rental-purchase agreement involved in a court proceeding.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
