An application for an energy efficiency and sustainable technology loan must contain:

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Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 470.645

  • Applicant: means an applicant for a loan to construct a small scale local energy project. See Oregon Statutes 470.050
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Energy efficiency and sustainable technology loan: means a loan for a small scale local energy project that is repayable by means of:

    (a) A charge included with the participant's utility customer account billing; or

    (b) An alternative repayment method identified by the department and the borrower and specified in the loan agreement. See Oregon Statutes 470.050

  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Loan: includes the purchase or other acquisition of evidence of indebtedness and money used for the purchase or other acquisition of evidence of indebtedness. See Oregon Statutes 470.050
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.

(1) Information sufficient to identify real or personal property located within this state against which a fixture filing and lien may be filed under ORS § 470.680 or 470.685 to secure the loan and sufficient to allow verification that the property owner is the applicant or has consented to the fixture filing and lien;

(2) A clear and conspicuous disclosure:

(a) That a lien or other form of security for the energy efficiency and sustainable technology loan need not be paid in full upon a sale of the property, but all amounts due under the repayment plan as of the sale date must be paid before the sale closes; and

(b) That some lenders may be unwilling to make a mortgage on a property that is subject to a lien or other form of security for the energy efficiency and sustainable technology loan;

(3) The loan applicant must sign a loan contract that recites all terms and conditions required under this chapter for an energy efficiency and sustainable technology loan; and

(4) The State Department of Energy must be satisfied that all conditions required under ORS § 470.090 to support the loan have been satisfied. [2009 c.753 § 29]