Source: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1679a?quicktabs_8=0
Timestamp: 2014-11-25 01:56:40
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1679', '§ 1679', '§ 1679', '§ 403', '§ 2451', '§ 1100']

15 U.S. Code § 1679a - Definitions | LII / Legal Information Institute
U.S. Code › Title 15 › Chapter 41 › Subchapter II-A › § 1679a 15 U.S. Code § 1679a - Definitions
Consumer The term “consumer” means an individual.
Consumer credit transaction The term “consumer credit transaction” means any transaction in which credit is offered or extended to an individual for personal, family, or household purposes.
Credit repair organization The term “credit repair organization”—
means any person who uses any instrumentality of interstate commerce or the mails to sell, provide, or perform (or represent that such person can or will sell, provide, or perform) any service, in return for the payment of money or other valuable consideration, for the express or implied purpose of—
any nonprofit organization which is exempt from taxation under section 501
(c)(3) of title 26;
any depository institution (as that term is defined in section 1813 of title 12) or any Federal or State credit union (as those terms are defined in section 1752 of title 12), or any affiliate or subsidiary of such a depository institution or credit union.
Credit The term “credit” has the meaning given to such term in section 1602
(Pub. L. 90–321, title IV, § 403, as added Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title II, § 2451,Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–455.)
(e) of this title, referred to in par. (4), was redesignated section 1602
(f) of this title by Pub. L. 111–203, title X, § 1100A(1)(A),July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 2107.
For a prior section 403 ofPub. L. 90–321, see note set out under section 1679 of this title.