§ 38.2-4706 Default charge; bad check charge
A. If any installment under a premium finance agreement is not paid in full within seven days after it is due, Sundays and holidays included, the insurance premium finance company may charge and collect a default charge not to exceed five percent of the installment. The default charge shall be collected only once on any installment.
B. An insurance premium finance company may charge and collect a fee, not in excess of twenty dollars, for each check returned to the insurance premium finance company because the drawer had no account or insufficient funds in the payor bank.
History
This law was first created in 1981. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 107 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1981 “Acts” aren’t available online. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1986, chapter 562; in 1994, chapter 123.
1981, c. 107, § 38.1-740.2; 1986, c. 562; 1994, c. 123.