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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="12-610.1" title_number="12" title_name="Credit Regulations" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Retail Installment Sales">
  <text>Any agreement made before July 1, 1982, which is refinanced at a higher rate allowed by § 12–609(f) or § 12–610(3) of this subtitle must comply with the following requirements:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>The holder must give the following disclosures in writing to the buyer prior to the execution by the buyer of the new agreement:</text>
    <text>If you do agree to consolidate your existing obligation, you will be paying an annual percentage rate of  . . . .% on the existing net balance of $. . . . . ., instead of the rate of  . . . . .% which you are now paying.</text>
    <text>Schedule of Monthly Payments</text>
    <text>Separate Purchase Agreements             Consolidated Purchase Agreement</text>
    <text>$ . . . . 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 Agreements                 Consolidated Agreement</text>
    <text>$ . . . . total of                      $ . . . . total of payments</text>
    <text>payments for your                      for your consolidated</text>
    <text>existing purchases                      purchases</text>
    <text>. . . . total of payments</text>
    <text>for your new purchases</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>The holder must allow the buyer the choice of repaying his existing purchase balance at the originally agreed upon rate and obtaining any additional extension of credit as a separate agreement, notwithstanding any law which limits the holder’s ability to have more than 1 agreement with the same buyer;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>An existing balance 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 purchases;</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>
