New Jersey Statutes 17:12B-158. Definitions as used in sections 159 through 164 (C. 17:12B-159 through C. 17:12B-164) of this act
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 17:12B-158
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
(1) “Property improvement loan” means a loan, secured or unsecured, the purpose of which, as represented to the association by the borrower, is to enable the borrower to pay the cost in whole or in part of repairing, altering, improving, constructing, adding to, modernizing, equipping or rehabilitating real estate used wholly or partially for dwelling purposes and in connection with which the borrower files with the association, at the time when the loan is made, a statement, that the proceeds of the loan will be used to pay the cost, in whole or in part, of modernizing, rehabilitating, altering, constructing, adding to, repairing, equipping or improving such real property, as the case may be.
(2) (Deleted by amendment.)
(3) “Net proceeds” means the difference between the face amount of the note evidencing such loan and that part of such face amount which represents precomputed interest.
(4) “Loan for equipping” means a loan, the proceeds of which are used to finance those items usually and customarily used by the borrower in connection with a residential dwelling, whether or not affixed to the realty. The Commissioner of Banking shall in relation to a “loan for equipping,” adopt, amend, alter or rescind regulations, the requirements of which, in his judgment, are necessary to establish appropriate safeguards. The commissioner, when issuing such regulations, shall, to the extent feasible and after giving consideration to the financial and economic circumstances and the public welfare, endeavor to promulgate such rules and regulations in substantial conformity with similar rules and regulations of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board as applied to Federal associations.
(5) “Precomputed interest” means an amount equal to the whole amount of the interest payable on a loan as defined in this section for the period from the making of the loan to the date scheduled by the terms of the loan for the payment of the final installment.
(6) “Person” means an individual, a partnership, a business, a corporation and an association.
(7) “Actuarial method” means the method of applying payments made on a debt between principal and interest pursuant to which a payment is applied first to accumulated interest on the principal amount of the loan and the remainder is applied to the unpaid principal balance of the loan in reduction thereof.
(8) “Precomputed loan” means an installment loan which is evidenced by a note the face amount of which consists of the aggregate of the principal amount of the loan so evidenced, and the precomputed interest thereon.
(9) “Nonprecomputed loan” means an installment loan which is evidenced by a note the face amount of which consists solely of the principal amount of the loan so evidenced.
L.1963, c. 144, s. 158. Amended by L.1975, c. 313, s. 3, eff. Feb. 19, 1976; L.1981, c. 101, s. 14, eff. March 31, 1981.