422.306

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422.306 Receipts; accounting; evidence of payment.

422.306(1)

(1) The creditor shall furnish the customer, without request, a written receipt for each payment made in cash, or any other time the method of payment does not itself provide evidence of payment.

422.306(2)

(2) At any time after consummation of a consumer credit transaction other than one pursuant to an open-end credit plan, the creditor, upon written request by the customer, shall furnish to the customer a written statement of the amounts and specifying the dates of payments received and charges imposed, together with the unpaid balance at the time of the statement. With respect to transactions secured by a first lien mortgage, or equivalent security interest, on real property such statement need specify only the dates and amounts of payments received and charges imposed during the previous 12 months, and the unpaid balance remaining at the time of the statement. The customer shall be entitled to one such statement free of charge once every 12 months. Additional statements shall be furnished if the customer pays the creditor’s reasonable costs of preparing and furnishing the statement.

422.306(3)

(3) With respect to an open-end credit plan, the creditor shall at any time upon written request by the customer, furnish to the customer a written statement, which may consist of copies of the periodic statements furnished to the customer under the plan, specifying the dates and amounts of purchases or loan credit extended and payments received during the previous 12 months, and the unpaid balance remaining at the time of the statement. The customer shall be entitled to one such statement at a charge not in excess of $1 once every 12 months. Additional statements shall be furnished if the customer pays the creditor’s reasonable costs of preparing and furnishing the statement.

422.306(4)

(4) Within 45 days after payment by the customer of all sums for which the customer is obligated under a consumer credit transaction other than one pursuant to an open-end credit plan, the creditor shall give or forward to the customer instruments which acknowledge payment in full, and release of any security interest when there is no outstanding secured obligation, and furnish to the customer or the customer’s designee evidence of the release or assignment to such designee of any recorded lien on real estate and termination of any filed financing statement which perfected such security interest.