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2025 Delaware Code
Title 5 - Banking
Chapter 22. LICENSED LENDERS
Subchapter IV. Prohibitions and Penalties
§ 2242. Salary orders, warrants or assignments as security for loans, confessions of judgment, acceleration; penalties for violations.
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§ 2242. Salary orders, warrants or assignments as security for loans, confessions of judgment, acceleration; penalties for violations.
(a) No order, warrant or claim of any kind, from any employee upon the employee's employer, for any salary or part thereof due or to become due to such employee from such employer, shall be taken, accepted or agreed to be taken or accepted, as security for money loaned or to be loaned.
(b) No loan shall be declared due and payable unless the borrower shall be in default of an expressed term or condition of the instrument.
(c) Whoever violates this section shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500, or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both.
66 Del. Laws, c. 22, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 84 Del. Laws, c. 42, § 1;
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