Legal Opinion
Greenleaf Finance Co. v. SMALL LOANS REGULATORY BOARD
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 12, 1979PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
The Small Loans Regulatory Board (Board), consisting of the Board of Bank Incorporation (the Commissioner of Banks, the Commissioner of Revenue, and the State Treasurer 2 ) and two persons appointed by the Governor (see G. L. c. 26, § 5A), is charged by G. L. c. 140, § 100, with establishing a “maximum rate of charge” for small loans, i.e., loans of $3,000 or less. Such a rate of charge — actually, as permitted by the statute, graduated charges — was set in 1960 by a predecessor Board and, with a change introduced by St. 1962, c. 795, § 1, remained in force for more than a decade. The…
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