California Health and Safety Code 51402 – (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the …
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the agency may establish a mortgage loan program. Under the mortgage loan program, the agency may acquire or make first or second mortgage loans for the construction, purchase, improvement, or rehabilitation of residences or multifamily rental housing.
(b) The agency may invest in, make, purchase, take assignments of, or otherwise acquire or make commitments to invest in, make, purchase, take assignments, or otherwise acquire any mortgage loan or partial interest or participation therein. The agency may sell, assign, or otherwise dispose of, or enter into commitments to sell, assign, or otherwise dispose of, any obligation, mortgage loan, or partial interest or participation therein, or create pools of obligations, mortgage loans, or partial interest or participations held by the agency, and issue and sell securities backed by pools. The agency may require the seller of obligations, residential mortgage loans, or partial interest or participations purchased by the agency, to use the proceeds of the sale for the purpose of financing mortgage loans, except when the proceeds arise from the sale of new loans, initiated for the purpose of sale to the agency or others. The agency may pledge mortgage loans, acquired pursuant to the mortgage loan program, to pay the principal, interest, and redemption premium, if any, on taxable securities issued by the agency for the mortgage loan program.
Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 51402
- 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
- Mortgage loan: means any residential mortgage loan or multifamily rental housing loan. See California Health and Safety Code 51401
- Multifamily rental housing: means any existing structure of more than four dwelling units or any work or undertaking of more than four units of new construction, improvement, or rehabilitation for the provision of housing. See California Health and Safety Code 51401
- 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.
- Taxable securities: means securities bearing interest that is otherwise taxable under the personal income tax provisions of federal tax law and which are issued to finance the purchase or making of mortgage loans pursuant to this chapter. See California Health and Safety Code 51401
(c) Any multifamily rental housing financed by the agency pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to the same occupancy standards specified in Section 51335.
(Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 904, Sec. 8. Effective September 21, 1987.)