In connection with any project financed in whole or in part or otherwise aided by a government, whether through a donation of money or property, a loan, the insurance or guarantee of a loan, or otherwise, the authority also has the power to mortgage all or any part of its property, real or personal, then owned or thereafter acquired and thereby to:

(1) Vest in a government the right, upon the happening of an event of default, as defined in such mortgage, foreclose such mortgage through judicial proceedings or through the exercise of a power of sale without judicial proceedings, so long as a government shall be the holder of any of the bonds secured by such mortgage;
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 13-20-604

  • Bonds: means any bonds, interim certificates, notes, debentures, or other obligations of the authority issued pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Government: includes the state and federal governments and any subdivision, agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of either of them. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgage: includes deeds of trust, mortgages, building and loan contracts or other instruments conveying real or personal property as security for bonds and conferring a right to foreclose and cause a sale thereof. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
  • obligee: includes any bondholder, trustee or trustees for any bondholders, any lessor demising property to the authority used in connection with a housing project or any assignee or assignees of the lessor's interest or any part thereof, and the United States, when it is a party to any contract with the authority. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(2) Vest in a trustee or trustees the right, upon the happening of an event of default, as defined in such mortgage, foreclose such mortgage through judicial proceedings or through the exercise of a power of sale without judicial proceedings;
(3) Vest in other obligees the right to foreclose such mortgage by judicial proceedings; and
(4) Vest in any obligee, including a government, the right, in foreclosing any mortgage as aforementioned, foreclose such mortgage as to all or such part or parts of the property covered thereby as such obligee, in its absolute discretion, shall elect; the institution, prosecution and conclusion of any such foreclosure proceedings and/or sale of any such parts of the mortgaged property shall not affect in any manner or to any extent the lien of the mortgage on the parts of the mortgaged property not included in such proceedings or not sold as aforementioned.
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