§1916 — Title 19 Customs Duties | U.S. Code

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Allows the Secretary of Commerce to take many actions when making or managing guarantees, deferred participation agreements, and loans under section 1914. The Secretary can require and handle collateral, sell or assign debts, contracts, claims, or other property, and collect or settle amounts owed until they are sent to the Attorney General for suit or collection. The Secretary can fix up, insure, rent, sell, or otherwise deal with real or personal property received, and can acquire, hold, transfer, release, or sign documents to convey any property or interest. The Secretary may also do other acts needed to carry out duties under section 1914. Any mortgage taken as security must be recorded according to state law.

Title 19, §1916

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(a)In making and administering guarantees, agreements for deferred participation, and loans under section 1914 11 See References in Text note below. of this title, the Secretary of Commerce may—

(1)require security for any such guarantee, agreement, or loan, and enforce, waive, or subordinate such security;

(2)assign or sell at public or private sale, or otherwise dispose of, upon such terms and conditions and for such consideration as he shall determine to be reasonable, any evidence of debt, contract, claim, personal property, or security assigned to or held by him in connection with such guarantees, agreements, or loans, and collect, compromise, and obtain deficiency judgments with respect to all obligations assigned to or held by him in connection with such guarantees, agreements, or loans until such time as such obligations may be referred to the Attorney General for suit or collection;

(3)renovate, improve, modernize, complete, insure, rent, sell, or otherwise deal with, upon such terms and conditions and for such consideration as he shall determine to be reasonable, any real or personal property conveyed to or otherwise acquired by him in connection with such guarantees, agreements, or loans;

(4)acquire, hold, transfer, release, or convey any real or personal property or any interest therein whenever deemed necessary or appropriate, and execute all legal documents for such purposes; and

(5)exercise all such other powers and take all such other acts as may be necessary or incidental to the carrying out of functions pursuant to section 1914 of this title.

(b)Any mortgage acquired as security under subsection (a) shall be recorded under applicable State law.

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section 1914 of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was repealed by Pub. L. 93–618, title VI, § 602(e), Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2072.

§1916 Administration of Financial Assistance; Recording of Mortgages

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Title 19, §1916

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