New Mexico Statutes 58-18-6. Loans to mortgage lenders
A. The authority may make and contract to make loans to mortgage lenders on terms and conditions as it determines, and all mortgage lenders are authorized to borrow from the authority in accordance with the provisions of this section and the rules and regulations of the authority.
Terms Used In New Mexico Statutes 58-18-6
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- 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
- 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.
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
B. The authority shall require that each mortgage lender receiving a loan pursuant to this section shall issue and deliver to the authority an evidence of its indebtedness to the authority that shall constitute either a general or limited obligation of the mortgage lender, as determined by the authority, and shall bear such date or dates, shall mature at such time or times, shall be subject to prepayment and shall contain such other provisions consistent with this section as the authority determines.
C. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section to the contrary, the interest rate or rates and other terms of loans to mortgage lenders made from the proceeds of any issue of bonds or notes of the authority shall be at least sufficient to assure the payment of the bonds or notes and the interest thereon as they become due.
D. The authority shall require that loans to mortgage lenders made pursuant to this section shall be secured as to payment of both principal and interest by a pledge of collateral security in such amounts as the authority determines to be necessary to assure the payment of the loans and the interest thereon as they become due.
E. The authority may require that collateral for loans be deposited with a bank, trust company or other financial institution acceptable to the authority and designated by the authority as custodian. In the absence of this requirement, each mortgage lender shall enter into an agreement with the authority containing such provisions as the authority deems necessary to:
(1) adequately identify and maintain the collateral; (2) service the collateral; and
(3) require the mortgage lender to hold the collateral as an agent for the authority and be accountable to the authority as the trustee of an express trust for the application and disposition thereof and the income therefrom.
The authority may also establish such additional requirements as it deems necessary with respect to the pledging, assigning, setting aside or holding of collateral and the making of substitutions therefor or additions thereto and the disposition of income and receipts therefrom.
F. The authority shall require as a condition of each single-family loan to a mortgage lender that the mortgage lender, within a period that the authority may prescribe, shall have entered into written commitments to make and, within a period that the authority may prescribe, shall have disbursed the loan proceeds in new single-family mortgage loans to persons of low or moderate income in an aggregate principal amount equal to the amount of the loan. The new single-family mortgage loans shall have terms and conditions as the authority may prescribe.
G. The authority shall require the submission to it by each mortgage lender to which the authority has made a single-family mortgage loan evidence satisfactory to the authority of the making of new single-family mortgage loans to persons of low or moderate income as required by this section and in connection therewith may, through its members, employees or agents, inspect the books and records of any such mortgage lender.
H. The authority may require as a condition of any loans to mortgage lenders such representations and warranties as it determines to be necessary to secure the loans and carry out the purposes of this section.
I. Compliance by any mortgage lender with the terms of its agreement with or undertaking to the authority with respect to the making or servicing of any new mortgage loans may be enforced by decree of any court of competent jurisdiction. The authority may require as a condition of any loan to any national banking association the consent of the association to the jurisdiction of courts of the state over any such proceeding. The authority may also require, as a condition of any loan to a mortgage lender, agreement by the mortgage lender to the payment of penalties to the authority for violation by the mortgage lender of its undertakings to the authority.
J. To the extent that any provisions of this section may be inconsistent with any provision of law of the state governing the affairs of mortgage lenders, which other provision of law does not by its terms expressly amend the Mortgage Finance Authority Act, the provisions of this section shall control.