Section 625. Assignment of contracts for services  


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  • 1. No assignee who takes
      a note or other obligation as consideration for  a  contract  containing
      the  disclosure  requirements of section six hundred twenty-four of this
      article shall fail to honor the  consumer's  right  of  cancellation  as
      provided in this article.
        2. No creditor holding a note or other obligation, to which a consumer
      has  obligated  himself  in  order  to purchase a contract shall fail to
      honor the consumer's right of cancellation under this article if:
        (a) the creditor is a person related to the seller of services; or
        (b) the seller prepares documents used in connection with the loan; or
        (c) the creditor supplies forms to the seller used by the consumer  in
      obtaining the loan; or
        (d)  the creditor makes twenty or more loans in any calendar year, the
      proceeds of which are used in transactions with the same seller or  with
      a person related to the same seller; or
        (e) the consumer is referred to the creditor by the seller; or
        (f)  the  creditor,  directly  or  indirectly,  pays  the  seller  any
      consideration whether or not it is in  connection  with  the  particular
      transactions; or
        (g) the creditor participated in or was connected with the sale.
        3.  No  assignee  of  a  contract  shall  fail  to  give notice of the
      assignment to the consumer. A notice of assignment shall be  in  writing
      addressed to the consumer at the address shown on the contract and shall
      identify the contract.