{"data":{"id":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-45-601","jurisdiction":"us-ne","citation":"Neb. Rev. Stat. § 45-601","heading":"Neb. Rev. Stat. § 45-601","body":"Sections 45-601 to 45-622 shall be known and may be cited as the Collection Agency Act.\n\nNo person, firm, corporation, or association shall conduct or operate a collection agency or do a collection agency business as defined in the act until he, she, or it has secured a license as provided in the act. Any person, firm, corporation, or association conducting or operating such a collection agency or doing such a collection agency business without a license shall be guilty of a Class III misdemeanor for each day that such unlawful business is conducted. Any officer or agent of a firm, corporation, or association who personally participates in any violation of the act shall be guilty of a Class III misdemeanor.\n\nNothing contained in this section shall be construed to require a regular employee of a collection agency duly licensed as such in this state to procure a collection agency license.\n\nNothing in the act shall be construed to prohibit a person, firm, corporation, or association regulated as a collection agency in another state and residing in another state from communicating with a debtor in this state.","path":["NE Code","Chapter 45"],"source_url":"https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=45-601","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:21Z","sha256":"fbbf8445321223fafc9926b15d60c1a46d6828ca43abe011c668ac77a96a3e06","source_id":"us-ne","stale":false,"prev":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-45-380","next":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-45-602"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}