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S.C. Code Ann. § 37-2-703

Renegotiation; extension of agreement

Known as the South Carolina Consumer Protection Code

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

1985 Act No. 121, SECTION 6.

(a) A renegotiation occurs when an existing consumer rental-purchase agreement is satisfied and replaced by a new consumer rental-purchase agreement undertaken by the same lessor and lessee. A renegotiation is a new lease requiring new disclosures. However, the following events are not treated as renegotiations:

(1) the addition or return of property in a multiple-item agreement or the substitution of the leased property, if in either case the average payment allocable to a payment period is not changed by more than twenty-five percent;

(2) a deferral or extension of one or more periodic payments, or portions of a periodic payment;

(3) a reduction in charges in the agreement;

(4) a lease or agreement involved in a court proceeding;

(b) No disclosures are required for any extension of a consumer rental-purchase agreement.

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