25A-40. Form of agreement or offer; statement of buyer's rights.
(a) In a home-solicitation sale the seller must present to the buyer and obtain his signature to a fully completed written agreement or offer to purchase which is in the same language as that principally used in the oral sales presentation and which designates as the date of the transaction the date on which the buyer actually signs and which contains the name and address of the seller, and which contains in immediate proximity to the space reserved for the signature of the buyer in bold face type of a minimum size of 10 points, a statement in substantially the following form:
(b) The seller must, in addition to furnishing the buyer with a copy of the contract or offer to purchase, furnish to the buyer at the time he signs the home-solicitation sale contract or otherwise agrees to buy consumer goods or services from the seller, a completed form in duplicate, captioned "Notice of Cancellation," which shall be attached to the contract and easily detachable, and which shall contain in 10 point bold face type the following information and statements in the same language as that used in the contract:
"Notice of Cancellation
(name of seller)
at______________________________,
(address of seller's place of business)
not later than midnight of __________________
I hereby cancel this transaction.
______________________
_____________________
(Buyer's Signature)"
(1971, c. 796, s. 1; 1975, c. 805, s. 2.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 25A - Retail Installment Sales Act
§ 25A-2 - "Consumer credit sale" defined.
§ 25A-3 - "Payable in installments" defined.
§ 25A-7 - "Cash price" defined.
§ 25A-8 - "Finance charge" defined.
§ 25A-9 - "Amount financed" defined.
§ 25A-10 - "Official fees" defined.
§ 25A-11 - "Revolving charge account contract" defined.
§ 25A-12 - "Consumer credit installment sale contract" defined.
§ 25A-13 - "Consumer Credit Protection Act" defined.
§ 25A-14 - Finance charge rates and service charge for revolving charge account contracts.
§ 25A-15 - Finance charge rates for consumer credit installment sale contracts.
§ 25A-16 - Transfer of equity.
§ 25A-17 - Additional charges for insurance.
§ 25A-18 - Confession of judgment.
§ 25A-20 - Disclaimer of warranty.
§ 25A-22 - Receipts for payments; return of title documents upon full payment.
§ 25A-23 - Collateral taken by the seller.
§ 25A-24 - Identification of instruments of indebtedness.
§ 25A-25 - Preservation of consumers' claims and defenses.
§ 25A-26 - Substitution of collateral.
§ 25A-27 - Application of payments.
§ 25A-28 - Form of consumer credit installment sale contract.
§ 25A-31 - Consolidation and refinancing.
§ 25A-32 - Rebates on prepayment.
§ 25A-35 - Statement of account.
§ 25A-36 - Certificates of insurance and rebates.
§ 25A-38 - "Home-solicitation sale" defined.
§ 25A-39 - Buyer's right to cancel.
§ 25A-40 - Form of agreement or offer; statement of buyer's rights.
§ 25A-41 - Restoration of down payment; retention of goods.