§ 74-5063.4b — Small Business Credit Enhancement Program - Creation -

Oklahoma § 74-5063.4b

• Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
• Title 74: State Government

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Requirements. There is hereby created the Small Business Credit Enhancement Program. Twenty-five percent (25%) of the amount allocated to the industrial, agribusiness, and other private activity portfolio mix category pursuant to Section 9 of this act shall be used for the Small Business Credit Enhancement Program. Credit enhancements provided pursuant to this section shall be subject to the following requirements: 1. The original principal amount of credit enhancement on behalf of any borrower shall not exceed Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00); 2. The Authority may insure no more than eighty-five percent (85%) of a loan, and at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the loan proceeds shall be used for improvements and not more than twenty- five percent (25%) of the loan proceeds may be used to refinance existing obligations of a borrower; 3. The borrower: a. in the case of an existing business, at the time application is made for financing assistance, employs twenty (20) persons or less or has gross sales not exceeding One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,500,000.00) per year, or b. in the case of a new business, at the time application is made for financing assistance, projects that, during the first twelve (12) months of operation, it is reasonably expected will employ twenty (20) persons or less or have gross sales not exceeding One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,500,000.00); 4. Borrowers shall be for-profit entities; and 5. Repayment of loans of less than One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) may be secured by less than full collateral if the borrower or the principals of the borrower have good credit records as determined by the Authority.

Legislative History

Added by Laws 1990, c. 342, § 10, emerg. eff. May 30, 1990.