Tex. Finance Code § 371.173

This is the official text of Tex. Finance Code § 371.173, part of Texas’s Finance Code — regulates banks and other financial institutions.

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§ 371.173. INSURANCE CHARGE LIMITED.

Official statutory text

A pawnbroker may not impose a charge for insurance in connection with a pawn transaction, except that a pawnbroker may impose a charge in the amount of the actual cost to insure pledged goods being shipped to a pledgor who redeemed the goods by mail.

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