(1)(a) The
division shall establish a housing investment trust fund, referred to in this section
as the trust fund. The division shall pay into the trust fund any moneys made
available by the general assembly, all moneys collected by the division for purposes
of this section from federal grants and from other contributions, gifts, grants, and
donations received from any other organization, entity, or individual, public or
private, and from any fees or interest earned on such moneys, which moneys the
division is hereby authorized and directed to solicit, accept, expend, and disburse
for the purpose of making loans or loan guarantees and for program administration
as provided in this section. Any moneys in the trust fund at the end of any fiscal
year do not revert to the general f
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(1) (a) The
division shall establish a housing investment trust fund, referred to in this section
as the trust fund. The division shall pay into the trust fund any moneys made
available by the general assembly, all moneys collected by the division for purposes
of this section from federal grants and from other contributions, gifts, grants, and
donations received from any other organization, entity, or individual, public or
private, and from any fees or interest earned on such moneys, which moneys the
division is hereby authorized and directed to solicit, accept, expend, and disburse
for the purpose of making loans or loan guarantees and for program administration
as provided in this section. Any moneys in the trust fund at the end of any fiscal
year do not revert to the general fund. The moneys in the trust fund are hereby
continuously appropriated to the division for the purposes specified in this section.
For any given state fiscal year, no more than three percent of the moneys
appropriated from the trust fund may be expended for the administrative costs of
the division in administering the trust fund.
(b) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2014.)
(2) Subject to the requirements of this section, upon the approval of the
board, the division may make a loan from moneys in the trust fund for development
or redevelopment costs incurred prior to the completion of low- or moderate-income housing or for the rehabilitation of such housing. The interest rate on such
loan shall be determined by the board and set forth in the loan agreement signed by
the applicant. In conjunction with the making of such loan, the division shall require
the borrower to furnish collateral security in such amounts and in such form as the
division shall determine to be necessary to assure the payment of such loan and the
interest thereon as the same become due. The loan shall be subject to the terms
and conditions imposed by the division and shall be repaid within the time and in the
manner specified by the division in the loan agreement. In making loans of moneys
from the trust fund, the division shall give priority to owners of property that was
either destroyed or incurred substantial damage as a result of one or more state or
federally declared natural disasters.
(3) As principal and interest payments are received by the division from the
borrower, such moneys shall be deposited in the trust fund.
(3.5) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, on or after May 29,
2014:
(a) The division may charge the borrower an origination fee for loans made
from the trust fund. The fee must be used for direct and indirect costs associated
with the administration of the trust fund.
(b) The division shall not guarantee any loan made to a for-profit
organization or entity unless the loan is secured on a recourse basis; and
(c) The total amount of loan guarantees that may be made by the division
against the trust fund shall not exceed either two million dollars for any one project
or up to five million dollars for all such projects at any one time.
(3.7) If applications are required for loans pursuant to this section, the
application process must be in accordance with the process set forth in section 24-32-705.7.
(4) For the purposes of this section, unless the context otherwise requires,
the following definitions shall apply:
(a) Family means two or more persons related by blood, marriage, or
adoption who live or expect to live together as a single household in the same
home, a single person who is either at least sixty-two years of age or has a
disability, or a single person whom the board may by regulation determine to be
eligible for assistance under this part 7.
(b) Low- or moderate-income family means a family whose income is
insufficient to secure decent, safe, and sanitary housing provided by private
industry without public assistance and whose income is below the respective
income limits established by the board by regulation, taking into consideration such
factors as the following:
(I) The amount of the total income of such family available for housing needs;
(II) The size of the family;
(III) The cost and condition of housing facilities available;
(IV) The ability of such family to compete successfully in the private housing
market and to pay the amounts at which private enterprise is providing decent, safe,
and sanitary housing; and
(V) Standards established by various programs of the federal government
for determining eligibility based on the income of such family.
(c) Low- or moderate-income housing means a residential structure or
structures occupied by one or more low- or moderate-income families.
(5) Repealed.