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Title 12, Banks and BankingRelease 119-73not60

§1715z–4 Modifications in Terms of Mortgages Covering Multifamily Projects; Requests for Extensions to Cure Defaults or for Modification of Mortgage Terms; Regulations

Title 12 › Chapter 13— NATIONAL HOUSING › Subchapter II— MORTGAGE INSURANCE › § 1715z–4

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must only agree to extra time to fix a mortgage default or to change the terms of a mortgage on multifamily housing if the Secretary follows rules the Secretary makes. Those rules must make the borrower keep any rent or other money that is not needed for running the property (including mortgage amortization) in trust and spend it only with the Secretary’s permission while the extension or change is in effect. The Secretary can waive that trust rule for particular cases or groups of cases if the Secretary decides the waiver will not harm the United States’ interests.

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Title 12, §1715z–4

Banks and Banking, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The Secretary shall not consent to any request for an extension of the time for curing a default under any mortgage covering multifamily housing, as defined in the regulations of the Secretary, or for a modification of the terms of such mortgage, except in conformity with regulations prescribed by the Secretary in accordance with the provisions of this section. Such regulations shall require, as a condition to the granting of any such request, that, during the period of such extension or modification, any part of the rents or other funds derived by the mortgagor from the property covered by the mortgage which is not required to meet actual and necessary expenses arising in connection with the operation of such property, including amortization charges under the mortgage, be held in trust by the mortgagor and distributed only with the consent of the Secretary; except that the Secretary may provide for the granting of consent to any request for an extension of the time for curing a default under any mortgage covering multifamily housing, or for a modification of the term of such mortgage, without regard to the foregoing requirement, in any case or class of cases in which an exemption from such requirement does not (as determined by the Secretary) jeopardize the interests of the United States.

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Amendments

1988—Pub. L. 100–242 struck out “insured” before “mortgages” in section catchline, and struck out subsec. (a) designation and subsec. (b) which related to violations and penalties imposed for violations of the provisions of former subsec. (a).

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12 U.S.C. § 1715z–4

Title 12, Banks and Banking

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60