(a) The agency is authorized, subject to this chapter, to make commitments to insure mortgage loans and to contract to insure mortgage loans eligible for insurance hereunder, upon such terms and conditions as the agency may prescribe, provided:

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 13-22-109

  • Agency: means the housing development agency, created pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Cost of rehabilitation: means the sum total of the costs incurred by an owner and approved by the agency as reasonable and necessary for carrying out the rehabilitation of housing accommodation or accommodations. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Housing accommodation: means any building or structure, or portion thereof, and facilities incidental thereto, which is occupied or used, or is intended to be occupied or used, as the residence or home of one (1) or more persons or families. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
  • insurable mortgage: means a mortgage loan and deed of trust, or other instrument, which constitutes a first lien on improvements and real property in this state held in fee simple or on a leasehold under a lease having a remaining term, at the time a mortgage is insured under this chapter, of at least twenty percent (20%) greater duration than the remaining term of the loan obligation secured by such mortgage deed of trust. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • 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
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Mortgagee: means the original mortgage lender under an insurable mortgage, and its successors and assigns, as approved by the agency. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
  • Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
  • Mortgagor: means the original borrower under an insurable mortgage, and such original borrower's successors and assigns, as approved by the agency. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
  • 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.
  • State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
(1) Application for mortgage insurance or for a commitment for mortgage insurance has been submitted to the agency by an approved mortgagee holding or proposing to hold, an insurable mortgage on the housing accommodation;
(2) The mortgage will have a remaining term of not more than forty (40) years from the date of the issuance of the insurance;
(3) The mortgage bears interest, exclusive of premium charges fixed by the agency, at a rate not in excess of the legal rate for such mortgages in this state and agreed upon by the mortgagor, the mortgagee, and the agency;
(4) The mortgage contains amortization provisions satisfactory to the agency, requiring periodic payments by the mortgagor not in excess of the mortgagor’s reasonable ability to pay as determined by the agency;
(5) The mortgage is in such form and contains such terms and provisions with respect to maturity, hazard and title insurance, repairs, alterations, maintenance, payment of taxes and assessments, default remedies, anticipation of maturity, additional and secondary liens, waiver of equitable and legal redemption rights and other matters as the agency may prescribe; and
(6) That such mortgage insurance is necessary to enable the mortgagor to obtain the mortgage loan upon reasonable and affordable terms and conditions.
(b) Mortgage loans insured under this chapter may be for any amount up to and including one hundred percent (100%) of the cost of rehabilitation of the housing accommodation, subject to such rules and regulations as the agency may establish. If the agency, pursuant to the terms of a contract of mortgage insurance, makes any payment upon a defaulted mortgage loan to the mortgagee thereof, the agency shall be subrogated to the rights of the mortgagee.
(c) The directors, officers and employees of the agency shall not be subject to any personal liabilities due to any obligation or debt created or incurred by the agency.
(d) This section shall not apply to graduated payment mortgage loans insured pursuant to § 13-22-115.
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