If any credit card is issued to a person who has not requested or accepted by use the issuance of such credit card, the issuer shall be liable to the person whose name appears on the credit card for any damages or expenses, or both, including attorney's fees, which the person incurs due to the use of such credit card without permission of the person to whom it is issued by any person other than the person to whom it is issued or members of his immediate family. Any person who shall willfully collect finance charges under a revolving charge agreement in excess of the maximum permitted under Section 75-17-19 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, may be fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). Each account on which such excess finance charges shall be collected shall constitute a separate offense.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments
Chapter 17 - Interest, Finance Charges, and Other Charges
§ 75-17-3. Evasion of six percent interest law; interest forfeited if higher rate secretly exacted
§ 75-17-5. Discount, interest, bank issues
§ 75-17-7. Interest on judgments and decrees
§ 75-17-9. Partial payments applied
§ 75-17-17. Law governing loans made or credit extended prior to July 1, 1974
§ 75-17-23. Maximum finance charges in connection with sales of factory manufactured moveable homes
§ 75-17-27. Late payment charges
§ 75-17-29. Prohibition against use of multiple agreements to obtain excessive finance charge
§ 75-17-31. Limitations on prepayment penalties with respect to loans for certain real estate
§ 75-17-35. Computation of interest on refunds of excess rates by public utilities