---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 141.49"
title: "25"
number: "141.49"
heading: "Usury prohibited."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/141.49"
---

# §141.49. Usury prohibited.


No reservation business may take or receive money, goods, or other things of value for a loan or forbearance on a debt that exceeds in value the principal plus twenty-four percent (24 percent) per annum finance charge. Any reservation business contracting for, reserving, or receiving directly or indirectly, any greater amount shall forfeit the finance charge.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 25 U.S.C. 2 and 9; and Sec. 701, Pub. L. 114-74, 129 Stat. 599, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 40 FR 39835, Aug. 29, 1975, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 47 FR 13327, Mar. 30, 1982.