2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 37 - Consumer Protection Code
CHAPTER 2 - CREDIT SALES
Section 37-2-309. Manufactured home credit disclosure; material terms.

(A) An estimate of the disclosures required by Section 37-2-301 is required in connection with a credit sale of a purchaser-occupied manufactured home not less than two days before the consummation of the transaction as defined in 12 C.F.R. Section 226.2(a)(13). The estimated disclosure must be accompanied by the itemization of the amount financed. With respect to a credit sale that is secured by real property, the disclosures required by the Federal Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act are applicable.

(B) If the seller turns down the applicant for the credit sale before making the disclosures, the disclosures as provided in subsection (A) are not required. With respect to a credit sale that is secured by real property, the disclosures required by the Federal Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act are applicable.

(C)(1) If the seller determines that a material term of the credit sale must change, then the seller shall redisclose the estimated disclosures to conform to the changed terms and the transaction must not be consummated until one day after the redisclosure.

(2) A material term of the credit sale includes:

(a) the number of payments of the transaction;

(b) a feature of the transaction causing it to be an alternative mortgage transaction as defined in 12 U.S. Code Section 3802(1) when the transaction as previously disclosed was not an alternative mortgage transaction;

(c) a term or fee in the transaction or combination of terms or fees causing the annual percentage rate to vary more than one quarter of one percent of the annual percentage rate previously disclosed; or

(d) any insurance premiums, prepaid finance charges, third-party fees, or preparation charges that vary from the previously disclosed insurance premiums, prepaid finance charges, third-party fees, or preparation charges by the lesser of five hundred dollars in the aggregate or one percent of the estimated amount disclosed pursuant to subsection (A).

HISTORY: 2003 Act No. 42, Section 3.A, eff Jan. 1, 2004, and applying to loans for which the loan applications were taken on or after that date.