RS 9:3563 Applicability - Louisiana Statutes

PART XI.  NOTIFICATION AND FEES

§3563.  Applicability

This Part applies to a person engaged in this state in making consumer credit sales or consumer loans and to a person who takes assignments of and undertakes direct collection of payments from or enforcement of rights against debtors arising from these sales or loans.  This Part shall not apply to a licensed lender or to any person whose only act of extending credit is the making of a sale to a consumer by honoring a credit card issued by a supervised financial organization subject to regulation, supervision, or auditing by any state or federal agency, and where such seller receives payment for the sale from the credit card issuer and retains neither an interest in the extension of the credit nor a right of recourse against the buyer in the event of nonpayment of the account.

Added by Acts 1972, No. 454, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1973.  Amended by Acts 1974, No. 466, §1; Acts 1985, No. 808, §2, eff. July 22, 1985; Acts 1985, No. 592, §2, eff. July 13, 1985; Acts 1986, No. 584, §1, eff. July 2, 1986; Acts 1992, No. 366, §1.