Terms Used In Michigan Laws 493.61

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of the office of financial and insurance regulation of the department of energy, labor, and economic growth or his or her authorized representatives. See Michigan Laws 493.51
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Employee: means an individual who meets both of the following:
    (i) Has an employment relationship acknowledged by that individual and the licensee or registrant that engages that individual to originate secondary mortgage loans. See Michigan Laws 493.51
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q
  • Licensee: means a person licensed or required to be licensed under this act. See Michigan Laws 493.51
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 493.51
  • Registrant: means a person that is registered or required to register as a broker, lender, or servicer under this act. See Michigan Laws 493.51
  • Service: means the collection or remittance for a lender, noteowner, or noteholder or a licensee's own account of 4 or more installment payments of the principal of, interest of, or an amount placed in escrow under a secondary mortgage loan, mortgage servicing agreement, or an agreement with a mortgagor. See Michigan Laws 493.51
  •     (1) The commissioner shall give notice to a licensee, registrant, or applicant of the commissioner’s intention to enter an order to suspend or revoke a license or registration or to refuse to issue a license or registration. The notice shall be in writing and served personally or sent by certified mail to the licensee, registrant, or applicant.
        (2) A licensee, registrant, or applicant may request a hearing to contest the intention to enter an order or refusal under subsection (1) within 20 days after service of the notice. If a hearing regarding suspension, revocation, or refusal to issue a license or registration is not requested, the commissioner shall enter a final order regarding the suspension, revocation, or refusal to issue a license or registration. The hearing shall be conducted under the provisions of the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328. The commissioner may suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue or renew a license or registration if he or she finds that the licensee or registrant or an owner, director, officer, member, partner, stockholder, employee, or agent of a licensee or registrant has done any of the following:
        (a) Made a material misstatement in an application.
        (b) Engaged in fraud, deceit, or material misrepresentation in connection with any transaction subject to this act.
        (c) Failed after 10 days’ written notice of default, to pay an annual operating fee, to maintain in effect a bond as required by the commissioner, or to comply with a demand, ruling, or requirement of the commissioner lawfully made under this act.
        (d) Either knowingly or without the exercise of due care to prevent it, violated this act or a rule promulgated under this act.
        (3) The commissioner may suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew a license or registration upon a finding of a fact or condition that, if the fact or condition had existed at the time of the original application for the license or registration, clearly would have warranted the commissioner to refuse to issue the license or registration originally.
        (4) A licensee or registrant may surrender a license or registration by delivering to the commissioner the license or registration with written notice that the licensee or registrant surrenders the license or registration. The surrender, suspension, or revocation of a license or registration under this act shall not affect the licensee’s or registrant’s civil or criminal liability for acts committed in violation of this act. The surrender of a license or registration does not affect a proceeding to suspend or revoke a license or registration.
        (5) Except as otherwise provided by law, a surrender, suspension, or revocation of a license or registration does not impair or affect the obligation of a preexisting contract between the licensee or registrant and another person.
        (6) A licensee or registrant whose license or registration certificate has been destroyed or lost may comply with this section by submitting to the commissioner a notarized affidavit of the loss accompanied by written notice that the licensee or registrant surrenders the license or registration.