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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="12-505.1" title_number="12" title_name="Credit Regulations" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Retail Credit Accounts">
  <text>Any closed end account made prior to July 1, 1982 which is refinanced at a higher rate pursuant to § 12–505(a)(3) of this subtitle must comply with the following requirements:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>The holder must give the following disclosure in writing to the buyer prior to the execution by the buyer of the new retail credit account agreement:</text>
    <text>If you do agree to consolidate your existing account, you will be paying an annual percentage rate of ..... on the existing net balance of $........, instead of the rate of ....... which you are now paying.</text>
    <text>Schedule of Monthly Payments</text>
    <text>Separate Account Agreements              Consolidated Account Agreement</text>
    <text>$....... per month for                   $....... per month for </text>
    <text>the next ....... months                  the next ....... months    </text>
    <text>then</text>
    <text>$....... per month for</text>
    <text>....... months after that</text>
    <text>Total of Payments</text>
    <text>Separate Account Agreements              Consolidated Account Agreement </text>
    <text>$....... total of                      $....... total of</text>
    <text>payments for your                     payments  for your</text>
    <text>existing account                     consolidated account </text>
    <text>....... total of payments</text>
    <text>for your new account </text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>The holder must allow the buyer the choice of repaying his existing account balance at the originally agreed upon rate and obtaining any additional extension of credit as a separate account, notwithstanding any law which limits the holder’s ability to establish more than 1 account for the same buyer;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>An account may be refinanced only upon the buyer’s request;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>The holder must refund or credit to the buyer’s account any unearned finance charge and any returned insurance premiums upon the cancellation of insurance sold in connection with the obligation;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>The holder must allow the buyer the right to cancel the consolidated purchase agreement within 3 business days and to elect the separate account option pursuant to subsection (2). The holder shall provide to the buyer conspicuous notice of the provisions of this subsection; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="6">
    <text>Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit the receipt of goods or services by the buyer at the time the consolidated purchase agreement is made.</text>
  </level>
</section>
