Section 537.7102 - DefinitionsAs used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
1."Administrator" means the person designated in section 537.6103.2."Creditor", for the purposes of this article, means the person to whom a debtor is obligated, either directly or indirectly, on a debt.3."Debt" means an actual or alleged obligation arising out of a consumer credit transaction, consumer rental purchase agreement, or a transaction which would have been a consumer credit transaction either if a finance charge was made, if the obligation was not payable in installments, if a lease was for a term of four months or less, or if a lease was of an interest in land. A debt includes a check as defined in section 554.3104 given in a transaction in connection with a consumer rental purchase agreement, in a transaction which was a consumer credit sale or in a transaction which would have been a consumer credit sale if credit was granted and if a finance charge was made, or in a transaction regulated under chapter 533D.4."Debt collection" means an action, conduct or practice in soliciting debts for collection or in the collection or attempted collection of a debt.5."Debt collector" means a person engaging, directly or indirectly, in debt collection, whether for the person, the person's employer, or others, and includes a person who sells, or offers to sell, forms represented to be a collection system, device, or scheme, intended to be used to collect debts.6."Debtor", for the purposes of this article, means the person obligated.C75, 77, 79, 81, § 537.7102 87 Acts, ch 137, §3; 89 Acts, ch 128, §4; 95 Acts, ch 139, §17Referred to in §80A.1, 85.27, 537.1303, 537.6201, 715C.1