38 Ill. Adm. Code 110.80
Interest-Bearing Loans
Section 110.80 Interest-Bearing
Loans
a) No payment shall be accepted on the principal balance unless
interest is paid to date or is agreed to by the licensee, except a payment may
be credited to principal if the amount of the payment is not sufficient to pay
the interest due for one day.
b) A calendar month is the period from a given date in one month
to the same numbered date in the following month, and if there is no same
numbered date in the following month, to the last day of the following month.
c) Interest shall be computed on the basis of one month's
interest for each calendar month and 1/30
th
of a month's interest
for each day in a fraction of a month or, alternatively, 1/365
th
of
the agreed annual rate for each day actually elapsed.
d) When an interest-bearing loan contract is refinanced, accrued
but uncollected interest may be included in the principal amount of the new
loan contract.
e) Loans must be fully amortizing and repayable in substantially
equal and consecutive weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, or monthly installments. The
first installment period shall be deemed to begin on the day that interest
begins to accrue. No charge may be made for any days between the date of the
loan and the beginning of the first installment period. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the days between the date of the loan and the commencement of the
first installment period may exceed one weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, or
monthly period by no more than the following:
1) For weekly payments, by 4 days;
2) For biweekly and semimonthly payments, by 7 days;
3) For monthly payments, by 15 days.