Delaware § 7612 - Receipts; acknowledgement of payment in full for ownership.
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§ 7612. Receipts; acknowledgement of payment in full for ownership.
(a) If a lessee so requests, the lessor must give or forward to the lessee a receipt for any payment made in cash. The lessor must also furnish, upon the lessee’s request, an accounting of all charges, payments and their dates in connection with a lease-purchase agreement. A charge of $5.00 may be imposed upon the lessee by the lessor for the second and each subsequent accounting request by the lessee in a 12-month period.
(b) After all lease payments necessary to acquire ownership have been made by a lessee or the lessee has exercised an early purchase option pursuant to § 7603(a)(8) of this title, and upon demand by the lessee, the lessor shall deliver, or mail to the lessee’s last known address, such 1 or more good and sufficient instruments as shall be necessary to acknowledge the lessee’s full ownership in the property to which the lessee acquired ownership pursuant to the lease-purchase agreement.
68 Del. Laws, c. 59, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1;Source: official Delaware text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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