Terms Used In Iowa Code 537.2308

  • Amount financed: means :
     a. See Iowa Code 537.1301
  • Credit: means the right granted by a person extending credit to a person to defer payment of debt, to incur debt and defer its payment, or to purchase property or services and defer payment therefor. See Iowa Code 537.1301
  • Lender: means a person who makes a loan or, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a person who takes an assignment of a lender's right to payment, but use of the term does not in itself impose on an assignee any obligation of the lender. See Iowa Code 537.1301
  • Loan: means any of the following, except as provided in paragraph "b":
     (1) The creation of debt by the lender's payment of or agreement to pay money to the debtor or to a third person for the account of the debtor. See Iowa Code 537.1301
  • Organization: means a corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, trust, estate, cooperative, or association. See Iowa Code 537.1301
 Supervised loans, not made pursuant to open-end credit and in which the amount financed is one thousand dollars or less, shall be scheduled to be payable in substantially equal installments at substantially equal periodic intervals except to the extent that the schedule of payments is adjusted to the seasonal or irregular income of the debtor, and over a period of not more than thirty-seven months if the amount financed is more than three hundred dollars, or over a period of not more than twenty-five months if the amount financed is three hundred dollars or less. However, a lender may make a loan not pursuant to open-end credit that is repayable in a single payment if the amount financed does not exceed one thousand dollars and if the finance charge does not exceed the rate permitted by section 537.2401, subsection 1, to be charged by a supervised financial organization.
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