Missouri Statutes

§ 408.140 — Additional charges or fees prohibited, exceptions — no finance charges if purchases are paid for within certain time limit, exception.

Missouri § 408.140
JurisdictionMissouri
Title XXVITRADE AND COMMERCE
Ch. 408Legal Tender and Interest

This text of Missouri § 408.140 (Additional charges or fees prohibited, exceptions — no finance charges if purchases are paid for within certain time limit, exception.) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Missouri primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 408.140 (2026).

Text

1.  No further or other charge or amount whatsoever shall be directly or indirectly charged, contracted for or received for interest, service charges or other fees as an incident to any such extension of credit except as provided and regulated by sections 367.100 to 367.200 and except:

(1)On loans for thirty days or longer which are other than open-end credit as such term is defined in the federal Consumer Credit Protection Act and regulations thereunder, a fee, not to exceed ten percent of the principal amount loaned not to exceed one hundred dollars may be charged by the lender; however, no such fee shall be permitted on any extension, refinance, restructure or renewal of any such loan, unless any investigation is made on the application to extend, refinance, restructure or renew the

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Legislative History

(L. 1951 p. 875 § 408.032 (c), A.L. 1979 S.B. 305, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1195, A.L. 1981 S.B. 5 Revision, S.B. 326, A.L. 1984 S.B. 686, A.L. 1986 H.B. 1207, A.L. 1989 H.B. 386 merged with H.B. 615 & 563 merged with S.B. 192, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1630 merged with S.B. 768, A.L. 1992 S.B. 705 merged with S.B. 688, A.L. 1994 H.B. 1312, A.L. 1996 S.B. 683, A.L. 1998 S.B. 792, A.L. 2001 H.B. 738 merged with S.B. 186, A.L. 2002 S.B. 895, A.L. 2003 S.B. 346, A.L. 2004 H.B. 959 merged with S.B. 1233, et al., A.L. 2011 S.B. 83, A.L. 2013 H.B. 329 merged with S.B. 254, A.L. 2015 S.B. 345, A.L. 2017 H.B. 292, A.L. 2021 S.B. 106, A.L. 2024 S.B. 1359)

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