Bill Text: MI SB0269 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Occupations: pawnbrokers; allowable rate of interest charged by pawnbrokers; increase, and provide civil fines. Amends title & secs. 8, 9 & 18 of 1917 PA 273 (MCL 446.208 et seq.).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-04-19 - Referred To Committee On Regulatory Affairs [SB0269 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-SB0269-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL NO. 269
A bill to amend 1917 PA 273, entitled
"An act to regulate and license pawnbrokers that conduct business in this state; to provide for the disposition of allegedly misappropriated property in the possession of pawnbrokers; to provide remedies and prescribe penalties; and to provide for the powers and duties of certain local governmental units and state agencies,"
by amending the title and sections 8, 9, and 18 (MCL 446.208, 446.209, and 446.218), the title and section 9 as amended by 2018 PA 345 and section 8 as amended by 2002 PA 469.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
An act to regulate and license pawnbrokers that conduct business in this state; to provide for the disposition of allegedly misappropriated property in the possession of pawnbrokers; to provide remedies and prescribe penalties; to prescribe civil sanctions; and to provide for the powers and duties of certain local governmental units and state agencies.
Sec. 8. A pawnbroker, at the time of a loan, shall deliver to the person pawning or pledging any article a memorandum or note signed by him or her, containing the pawnbroker that contains the substance of the entry required to be made by him or her the pawnbroker in his or her the pawnbroker's book by that is required under section 6. A The pawnbroker shall not make or receive a charge shall not be made or received by the pawnbroker for the entry, memorandum, or note. The memorandum or note shall must be consecutively numbered and upon the following must be printed on its back shall be printed in English in 12-point type: the following: "If interest or charges in excess of 3% 5% per month, plus storage charges provided in this document, are asked or received, this loan is void and of no effect, ; and the borrower cannot be made to pay back the money loaned, any interest on the loan, or any charges or any part of the charges, and the pawnbroker loses all right to the possession of the goods, article, or thing pawned , and shall surrender the item to the borrower or pawner upon due demand for the item.".
Sec. 9. (1) A licensed pawnbroker may charge on any loan a rate of interest that does not exceed 3% 5% per month and is not required to accept any interest less than 50 cents on a single loan. A pawnbroker may also charge $3.00 per month or fraction of a month for the storage of unencumbered personal property under any single pledge or pawn.
(2) A pawnbroker or the pawnbroker's agent or employee shall not charge or receive interest on a loan that exceeds the amounts established in this act.
(3) Interest on a loan is not payable in advance and shall must be computed on unpaid monthly balances without compounding.
(4) A pawnbroker is not entitled to any examination fee and shall not make any charge that exceeds the amounts established in this act.
Sec. 18. (1) Any Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), a person who shall violate any of the provisions of violates this act, whether as owner, or as clerk, agent, servant or employe, shall be employee, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction be fined not less than 25 dollars nor more than 100 dollars, or punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than 10 days nor and not more than 3 months, a fine of not less than $250.00 and not more than $1,000.00, or by both. such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
(2) A person who violates section 9 by charging on any loan a rate of interest more than the rate prescribed in that section is subject to a civil fine of not more than $5,000.00. The prosecutor of the county in which the violation occurred or the attorney general may bring an action to collect the fine.
