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title: "15 U.S.C. § 1666e"
description: "Notification of credit card issuer by seller of return of goods, etc., by obligor; credit for account of obligor"
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title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
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chapter_name: "CONSUMER CREDIT PROTECTION"
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# 15 U.S.C. § 1666e - Notification of credit card issuer by seller of return of goods, etc., by obligor; credit for account of obligor

## Text

With respect to any sales transaction where a credit card has been used to obtain credit, where the seller is a person other than the card issuer, and where the seller accepts or allows a return of the goods or forgiveness of a debit for services which were the subject of such sale, the seller shall promptly transmit to the credit card issuer, a credit statement with respect thereto and the credit card issuer shall credit the account of the obligor for the amount of the transaction.

(Pub. L. 90–321, title I, § 166, as added Pub. L. 93–495, title III, § 306, Oct. 28, 1974, 88 Stat. 1514.)