15-8-10 - Renegotiations and extensions.
15-8-10. Renegotiations and extensions.
(1) A renegotiation shall occur when an existing rental purchase agreement is satisfiedand replaced by a new agreement entered into by the same lessor and consumer. A renegotiationshall be considered a new agreement requiring new disclosures. However, events such as thefollowing may not be treated as renegotiations:
(a) the addition or return of property in a multiple item agreement or the substitution ofthe rental property, if in either case the previous periodic payment allocable to a rental perioddoes not change by more than 25%;
(b) a deferral or extension of one or more periodic payments, or any portion of a periodicpayment;
(c) a reduction in charges in the agreement; or
(d) any court proceedings involving an agreement.
(2) Disclosures are not required for any extension of a rental purchase agreement.
Enacted by Chapter 251, 1993 General Session