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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="14-2009" title_number="14" title_name="Miscellaneous Consumer Protection Provisions" subtitle_number="20" subtitle_name="Consumer Motor Vehicle Leasing Contracts">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section applies if the lease provides that the motor vehicle is to be sold after repossession and the lessee is to be responsible for any deficiency arising from the sale of the motor vehicle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The lessor shall sell the motor vehicle that was repossessed at:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Subject to subsection (c) of this section, a private sale; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A public auction.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>At least 10 days before the sale, the lessor shall notify the lessee in writing of the time and place of the sale, by certified mail, return receipt requested, sent to the lessee’s last known address.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Any sale of a repossessed motor vehicle must be accomplished in a commercially reasonable manner.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>In all cases of a private sale of a repossessed motor vehicle under this section, a full accounting shall be made to the lessee in writing. This accounting shall contain the following information:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The unpaid balance at the time the motor vehicle was repossessed;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The refund credit of unearned insurance premiums, if any;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The remaining net balance;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The proceeds of the sale of the motor vehicle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The remaining deficiency balance, if any, or the amount due to the lessee; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>All expenses incurred as a result of the sale.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Commissioner of Financial Regulation may make a determination concerning any private sale that the sale was not accomplished in a commercially reasonable manner. Upon that determination, the Commissioner may enter an order disallowing any claim for a deficiency balance.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The proceeds of a sale to which this section applies shall be applied, in the following order, to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The actual and reasonable costs of the sale;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The actual and reasonable costs of retaking and storing the property; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The unpaid balance owing under the lease agreement at the time the property was repossessed.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The lessor shall furnish to the lessee a written statement which shows the distribution of the proceeds.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If the provisions of this subtitle, including the requirement of furnishing a notice following repossession, are not followed, the lessor shall not be entitled to any deficiency judgment to which it would be entitled under the lease agreement.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
