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S.C. Code Ann. § 37-2-701

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Known as the South Carolina Consumer Protection Code

The act spans §§ 37–37 (347 sections).

Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs v. Rent-a-Center, Inc. (2001)

Most recently applied in Silva v. Rent-A-Center, Inc. (September 2009)

1985 Act No. 121, SECTION 6.

How often courts cite this section

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citing decisions per year

Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

In this Part:

(1) "Advertisement" means a commercial message in any medium that promotes, directly or indirectly, a consumer rental-purchase agreement.

(2) "Consummation" means the time a lessee becomes contractually obligated on a consumer rental-purchase agreement.

(3) "Lessee" means a natural person who rents personal property under a consumer rental-purchase agreement.

(4) "Lessor" means a person who regularly provides the use of property through consumer rental-purchase agreements and to whom the obligation is initially payable on its face.

(5) "Personal property" means any property that is not real property under the laws of the state where it is located when it is made available for a consumer rental-purchase agreement.

(6) "Consumer rental-purchase agreement" means an agreement for the use of personal property by an individual primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, for an initial period of four months or less (whether or not there is any obligation beyond the initial period) that is automatically renewable with each payment and that permits the consumer to become the owner of the property. The term does not include a consumer credit sale as defined in Section 37-2-104, or a consumer loan as defined in Section 37-3-104, or a refinancing or consolidation thereof, or a consumer lease as defined in Section 37-2-106.

Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.