Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 17:46B-30.1

  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. Source: OCC
  • person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
1. Except for a State or federally chartered bank, savings bank, savings and loan association or its subsidiary or any officer or employee of any of the foregoing, no other lending institution, mortgage service, mortgage brokerage or mortgage guaranty company or service company or any person licensed pursuant to the “New Jersey Residential Mortgage Lending Act,” sections 1 through 39 of P.L.2009, c.53 (C. 17:11C-51 through C. 17C:11C-89) shall be licensed as or permitted to act as an insurance producer for a title insurance company. No bank, trust company, bank and trust company, or other lending institution, mortgage service, mortgage brokerage or mortgage guaranty company, or any service company of or for any lending institution shall make the selection of a particular title insurance company or insurance producer a condition precedent to the granting of any mortgage loan.

L.1991, c.18, s.1; amended 2000, c.140, s.1; 2018, c.108, s.14.