Iowa Code 535.12 – Loans by agricultural credit corporation
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Terms Used In Iowa Code 535.12
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Livestock: includes but is not limited to an animal classified as an ostrich, rhea, or emu. See Iowa Code 4.1
- month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" and the abbreviation "A. See Iowa Code 4.1
- 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.
535.12 Loans by agricultural credit corporation.
1. An agricultural credit corporation may lend money pursuant to a written promissory
note or other writing evidencing the loan obligation, at a rate of interest which is not more than four percentage points above the lending rate in effect at the farm credit bank of Omaha, Nebraska, for the month during which the writing evidencing the loan obligation is made, provided that the loan is for an agricultural production purpose and further provided that the loan would, but for this section, be subject to the maximum rate of interest prescribed by § 535.2, subsection 3, paragraph “”a””.
2. On or prior to the first day of each calendar month following June 13, 1980, the
superintendent of banking shall determine the maximum rate of interest which may be charged pursuant to subsection 1 of this section on loans made by an agricultural credit corporation during that month, and shall cause the maximum rate to be published as soon after determination as possible, as a notice in the Iowa administrative bulletin or as a legal notice in a newspaper of general circulation published in Polk county. The maximum rate so determined shall be effective as provided in subsection 1 of this section regardless of the date of publication of the notice, except that no agricultural credit corporation shall be found in violation of this chapter solely on account of having made a loan on or prior to the day on which a notice of a maximum rate is published as provided in this subsection, if the loan would have been lawful if made during the preceding calendar month.
3. This section does not prohibit an agricultural credit corporation from lending money as otherwise permitted by law.
4. As used in this section:
a. “”Agricultural credit corporation”” means a corporation which has been designated by the farm credit bank of Omaha, Nebraska, as an agricultural credit corporation eligible to sell or discount loans to that bank pursuant to 12 U.S.C. § 2075.
b. “”Agricultural production purpose”” means a purpose related to the production of agricultural products.
c. “”Agricultural products”” includes agricultural, horticultural, viticultural, and dairy products, livestock, wildlife, poultry, bees, forest products thereof, and any and all products produced on farms.
[C81, §535.12]
89 Acts, ch 257, §26; 2014 Acts, ch 1092, §190; 2016 Acts, ch 1011, §104, 105
Referred to in §524.103
1. An agricultural credit corporation may lend money pursuant to a written promissory
note or other writing evidencing the loan obligation, at a rate of interest which is not more than four percentage points above the lending rate in effect at the farm credit bank of Omaha, Nebraska, for the month during which the writing evidencing the loan obligation is made, provided that the loan is for an agricultural production purpose and further provided that the loan would, but for this section, be subject to the maximum rate of interest prescribed by § 535.2, subsection 3, paragraph “”a””.
2. On or prior to the first day of each calendar month following June 13, 1980, the
superintendent of banking shall determine the maximum rate of interest which may be charged pursuant to subsection 1 of this section on loans made by an agricultural credit corporation during that month, and shall cause the maximum rate to be published as soon after determination as possible, as a notice in the Iowa administrative bulletin or as a legal notice in a newspaper of general circulation published in Polk county. The maximum rate so determined shall be effective as provided in subsection 1 of this section regardless of the date of publication of the notice, except that no agricultural credit corporation shall be found in violation of this chapter solely on account of having made a loan on or prior to the day on which a notice of a maximum rate is published as provided in this subsection, if the loan would have been lawful if made during the preceding calendar month.
3. This section does not prohibit an agricultural credit corporation from lending money as otherwise permitted by law.
4. As used in this section:
a. “”Agricultural credit corporation”” means a corporation which has been designated by the farm credit bank of Omaha, Nebraska, as an agricultural credit corporation eligible to sell or discount loans to that bank pursuant to 12 U.S.C. § 2075.
b. “”Agricultural production purpose”” means a purpose related to the production of agricultural products.
c. “”Agricultural products”” includes agricultural, horticultural, viticultural, and dairy products, livestock, wildlife, poultry, bees, forest products thereof, and any and all products produced on farms.
[C81, §535.12]
89 Acts, ch 257, §26; 2014 Acts, ch 1092, §190; 2016 Acts, ch 1011, §104, 105
Referred to in §524.103