Section 1192.2 Of Article 4. Property Authorized For Excess Funds Investments From California Insurance Code >> Division 1. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 4.
1192.2
. An insurer may lend on the security of a first lien on an
unencumbered leasehold on real property if:
(a) The real property subject to the leasehold is primarily
improved by a single family residence, the term of the loan does not
exceed 30 years, and the amount of the loan plus the amount of the
liens of any public bond, assessment or tax assessed upon the
property loaned upon does not exceed 75 percent of the sound market
value of the leasehold for loan purposes as determined by appraisal;
or
(b) The real property subject to the leasehold is not primarily
improved by a single family residence, the term of the loan does not
exceed 30 years, and the amount of the loan plus the amount of the
liens of any public bond, assessment or tax assessed upon the
property loaned upon does not exceed 66 2/3 percent of the sound
market value of the leasehold for loan purposes as determined by
appraisal; or
(c) Where the loan is a building loan, the principal so loaned
plus the amount of the liens of any public bond, assessment or tax
assessed upon the property subject to said leasehold at no time
exceeds 75 percent if made upon the kind of property and improvements
referred to in (a) above or if other than referred to in (a) above,
at no time exceeds 66 2/3 percent of the sound market value of the
leasehold for loan purposes as determined by appraisal, including the
actual cost of the improvements thereon taken as security; or
(d) The loan is fully guaranteed or fully insured or covered by a
commitment to fully guarantee or fully insure by the United States,
the Federal Housing Administrator, or by any other agency of the
United States which the commissioner shall have approved for the
purposes of this subdivision as an issuer of insurance or guarantees
of loans on real property, whether the proceeds of the guarantee or
insurance is payable in cash or in obligations of the United States;
or
(e) The loan is fully guaranteed by the United States or any
agency thereof pursuant to the "Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944"
or any act of Congress supplementary or amendatory thereof, or, if a
portion of the loan is so guaranteed, then if the unguaranteed
portion of the loan does not exceed 75 percent of the sound market
value of the leasehold for loan purposes as determined by appraisal.
(f) In all cases mentioned in subsections (a), (b), (c) and (e),
the loan must be repayable in equal installments not less often than
annually in amounts sufficient to completely amortize the loan within
three-fourths of the remaining term of the leasehold including
options to renew exercisable by the lender.
A leasehold on real property is not encumbered within the meaning
of this section if subject only to one or more of the following: (a)
the lien of taxes and assessments not delinquent at the time of
investment, (b) the lien for delinquent taxes or assessments
delinquent at the time of investment, which are being contested by
any legal proceedings, provided that indemnity has been given
pursuant to the indenture under which the bonds and notes are issued,
or otherwise, for the payment of any amount which may be found to be
due upon the final adjudication of such contest, (c) the lien of
taxes and assessment becoming delinquent subsequent to the time of
investment, (d) outstanding mineral, oil or timber rights, (e)
easements or rights-of-way, (f) sewer rights, (g) rights in walls,
(h) building restrictions or other restrictive covenants, or
conditions or regulations of use, or subleases under which rents or
profits are reserved to the owner.
For the purposes of this section, delinquent taxes funded on any
deferred payment plan shall be deemed delinquent.