Title 15Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73not60

§642 Requirements for Loans

Title 15 › Chapter 14A— AID TO SMALL BUSINESS › § 642

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Businesses must meet three rules before the Administration gives a loan or provides equipment, facilities, or services. First, the business must tell the Administration the names of any lawyers, agents, or others it hired to speed up applications, and how much they were or will be paid. Second, the business must sign a promise that for two years after the help is given it will not hire, offer a job to, or pay for professional services from anyone who, on the day the help was given or within one year before that, was an officer, lawyer, agent, or employee of the Administration and whom the Administration says had discretion over granting help. Third, the business must give the names of lenders it applied to, with dates, amounts, terms, and proof if any refused the loan.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §642

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No loan shall be made or equipment, facilities, or services furnished by the Administration under this chapter to any business enterprise unless the owners, partners, or officers of such business enterprise (1) certify to the Administration the names of any attorneys, agents, or other persons engaged by or on behalf of such business enterprise for the purpose of expediting applications made to the Administration for assistance of any sort, and the fees paid or to be paid to any such persons; (2) execute an agreement binding any such business enterprise for a period of two years after any assistance is rendered by the Administration to such business enterprise, to refrain from employing, tendering any office or employment to, or retaining for professional services, any person who, on the date such assistance or any part thereof was rendered, or within one year prior thereto, shall have served as an officer, attorney, agent, or employee of the Administration occupying a position or engaging in activities which the Administration shall have determined involve discretion with respect to the granting of assistance under this chapter; and (3) furnish the names of lending institutions to which such business enterprise has applied for loans together with dates, amounts, terms, and proof of refusal.

Legislative History

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Prior Provisions

Prior similar provisions were contained in section 219 of act
July 30, 1953, ch. 282, title II, 67 Stat. 239, which was previously classified to section 648 of this title. The provisions of section 213 of act
July 30, 1953, formerly classified to this section, were transferred to section 2[8] of Pub. L. 85–536, and are classified to section 637(b)(6), (7) of this title. See Codification note set out under section 631 of this title.

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15 U.S.C. § 642

Title 15Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60