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§2706 Emergency Homeowners’ Relief Fund
Title 12 › CHAPTER 28 — EMERGENCY MORTGAGE RELIEF › § 2706
Summary
The Secretary may create an Emergency Homeowners’ Relief Fund in the U.S. Treasury. The fund won’t expire each year and can be used to pay defaults on loans or advances insured under section 2704, give emergency mortgage relief under section 2705, and pay administrative costs to carry out the chapter.
Full Legal Text
Title 12, §2706
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To carry out the purposes of this chapter, the Secretary is authorized to establish in the Treasury of the United States an Emergency Homeowners’ Relief Fund (hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the “fund”) which shall be available to the Secretary without fiscal year limitation—
(1)for making payments in connection with defaulted loans or advances of credit insured under section 2704 of this title;
(2)for making emergency mortgage relief payments under section 2705 of this title;
(3)to pay such administrative expenses (or portion of such expenses) of carrying out the provisions of this chapter as the Secretary may deem necessary.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2010—Pub. L. 111–203 struck out subsec. (a) designation before “To carry out” and subsec. (b) which read as follows: “The fund shall be credited with— “(1) all amounts received by the Secretary as premium charges for insurance or as repayment for emergency mortgage relief payments under this chapter and all receipts, earnings, collections, or proceeds derived from any claim or other assets acquired by the Secretary under this Act; and “(2) such amounts as may be appropriated for the purposes of this chapter.” 1984—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98–479, § 204(m)(1)(A), (B), redesignated subsec. (a)(1) as subsec. (a) and subpars. (A), (B), and (C) as pars. (1), (2), and (3), respectively. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 98–479, § 204(m)(1)(C), (D), redesignated subsec. (a)(2) as subsec. (b) and subpars. (A) and (B) as pars. (1) and (2), respectively.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 2010 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 111–203 effective on the date on which final
Regulations
implementing that amendment take effect, or on the date that is 18 months after the designated transfer date if such
Regulations
have not been issued by that date, see section 1400(c) of Pub. L. 111–203, set out as a note under section 1601 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade. Emergency Mortgage Relief Pub. L. 111–203, title XIV, § 1496(a),
July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 2207, provided that: “Effective
October 1, 2010, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, there is hereby made available to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development such sums as are necessary to provide $1,000,000,000 in assistance through the Emergency Homeowners’ Relief Fund, which such Secretary shall establish pursuant to section 107 of the Emergency Housing Act of 1975 (12 U.S.C. 2706), as such Act is amended by this section, for use for emergency mortgage assistance in accordance with title I of such Act [12 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.].”
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Citation
12 U.S.C. § 2706
Title 12, Banks and Banking
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102