Reasonable cause for emergency cash loans protected genuine acceptance and repayment transactions from statutory penalties.

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....Penalty for cash loan acceptance and repayment is not automatic where a bona fide reasonable cause exists. The notes state that emergency funding needs justified genuine cash loans because the lenders' identity and creditworthiness were undisputed, with no finding of unaccounted income or tax evasion. In the absence of deliberate disregard of law, contumacious conduct, or intent to defeat the restriction, the acceptance penalty was deleted. The same accepted explanation and reasonable-cause protection applied to cash repayment of those loans, resulting in deletion of the repayment penalty as well.....