TITLE 6
Commercial Law General Regulatory Provisions
CHAPTER 6-44
Rental Purchase Agreements
SECTION 6-44-9
§ 6-44-9 Enforcement.
(a) A lessee who has suffered a loss due to a violation of this chapter by a
lessor is entitled to recover from the lessor actual damages, reasonable
attorney's fees, and court costs.
(b) A lessor shall not be held liable in any action brought
under this section if he or she shows by a preponderance of the evidence that
the violation was not intentional and resulted from a bona fide error,
notwithstanding the maintenance of procedures reasonably adopted to avoid any
error. A bona fide error shall include, but shall not be limited to, clerical,
calculation, computer malfunction, and programming and printing errors;
provided that an error of legal judgment with respect to a person's obligations
under this chapter shall not be a bona fide error.
(c) A lessor shall not be deemed liable under this chapter
for a violation of the provisions of § 6-44-3 if, within sixty (60) days
after discovering the error and before an action is filed in accordance with
the provisions of this section or written notice of the error is received from
the consumer, the lessor notifies the consumer of the error and makes whatever
adjustments in the account necessary to assure that the consumer shall not be
required to pay an amount in excess of the amounts actually disclosed. This
provision shall apply whether the discovery of the error was made through the
lessor's own procedures or otherwise.
(d) An action shall not be brought under this chapter more
than one year after the occurrence of the act, method, or practice that is the
subject of the action, or more than one year after the last payment in a
transaction involving the method, act, or practice that is the subject of the
action, whichever is later.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1989, ch. 481, § 1; P.L. 2014, ch. 528, § 31.)
