North Carolina § 75-50 - Definitions.
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§ 75-50. Definitions.
The following words and terms as used in this Article shall be construed as follows: "Consumer" means any natural person who has incurred a debt or alleged debt for personal, family, household or agricultural purposes. "Debt" means any obligation owed or due or alleged to be owed or due from a consumer. "Debt collector" means any person engaging, directly or indirectly, in debt collection from a consumer except those persons subject to the provisions of Article 70, Chapter 58 of the General Statutes. "Location information" means information about a consumer's place of abode, any telephone numbers used by the consumer, and information about the consumer's place of employment. History (1977, c. 747, s. 4; 1989, c. 770, s. 15; 2015-177, s. 1.) Editor's Note. - Session Laws 1989, c. 770, s. 15, effective August 12, 1989, substituted "Article 9C" for "Article 9" in subdivision (3). "Article 70, Chapter 58 " has been substituted for "Article 9C, Chapter 66 " at the direction of the Revisor of Statutes in view of the recodification of Article 9C of Chapter 66 in Chapter 58 . Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2015-177, s. 1, effective August 5, 2015, added subdivision (4). Legal Periodicals. - For comment on this article, see 56 N.C.L. Rev. 547 (1978). For comment, "As If We Had Enough to Worry About ... Attorneys and the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: Supreme Court Rules on Former Attorney Exemption," see 18 Campbell L. Rev. 165 (1996).
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