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Code · Iowa · Chapter 537 — Consumer Credit Code

537.3301 Security in consumer credit transactions.

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1. With respect to a consumer credit sale, a seller may take a security interest in the property sold. In addition, a seller may take a security interest in goods upon which services are performed or in which goods sold are installed or to which they are annexed, or in land to which the goods are affixed or which is maintained, repaired or improved as a result of the sale of the goods or services, if in the case of a security interest in land the amount financed is one thousand dollars or more, or in the case of a security interest in goods if either the amount financed is three hundred dollars or more, or if the goods are household goods, or motor vehicles used by a consumer, the consumer’s dependents, or the family with which the consumer resides, as transportation to and from a place of employment, one hundred dollars or more.
Except as provided with respect to cross-collateral under section 537.3302, a seller may not otherwise take a security interest in property to secure the debt arising from a consumer credit sale.
2. With respect to a consumer lease, a lessor may not take a security interest in property to secure the debt arising from the lease. This subsection does not apply to a security deposit for a consumer lease or a consumer rental purchase agreement.
3. With respect to a supervised loan, a lender may not take a security interest, other than a purchase money security interest, in the clothing, one dining table and set of chairs, one refrigerator, one heating stove, one cooking stove, one radio, beds and bedding, one couch, two living room chairs, cooking utensils, or kitchenware used by the consumer, the consumer’s dependents, or the family with whom the consumer resides.
4. A security interest taken in violation of this section is void.
[C75, 77, 79, 81, §537.3301]
Referred to in §537.3302, 537.5201
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