7 TAC § 75.301. Definitions, DIVISION 1. AUTHORIZED LOANS AND INVESTMENTS

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Texas Administrative Code › Title 7 BANKING AND SECURITIES › Part 4 DEPARTMENT OF SAVINGS AND MORTGAGE LENDING › Chapter 75 SAVINGS BANKS › 7 TAC § 75.301

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As used in this division, the following words and terms are assigned the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

(1) Commercial real estate--Land on which structures or improvements do not qualify the property as residential real estate are located.

(2) Home--A structure designed and used as a residence by one family, or a structure designed and used for occupancy for one to four family units. The term also includes common areas around town houses or condominium units which are incidental to ownership of the residence.

(3) Home improvement loan--Any loan made for the improvement, maintenance, repair, modernization, or equipment of a home.

(4) Interim construction loan--A loan made to finance the improvement of or the building of residential or commercial structures on developed building sites, and may include the acquisition of such developed building sites. This term does not include home improvement loans.

(5) Manufactured home--A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which in the traveling mode is 8 feet or more in width or and 40 feet or more in length, or when erected on site, is 400 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems.

(6) One borrower--Any person or entity that is, or that upon the making of a loan will become, obligor on a loan or guarantor of a loan; nominees of such obligor; all persons, trusts, syndicates, partnerships, and corporations of which such obligor is a nominee, a beneficiary, a member, a general partner, a limited partner owning an interest of 10% or more (based on the value of their contribution), or a record or beneficial stockholder owning 10% or more of the capital stock; and if such obligor is a trust, syndicate, partnership, or corporation, all trusts, syndicates, partnerships, and corporations of which any beneficiary, member, general partner, limited partner owning an interest of 10% or more, or record or beneficial stockholder owning 10% or more of the capital stock, is also a beneficiary, member, general partner, limited partner owning an interest of 10% of more, or record or beneficial stockholder owning 10% or more of the capital stock of such obligor. In the case of a loan that has been assumed by a third party with the consent of the lending institution, the former debtor will not be deemed an obligor.

(7) Personal property--Tangible and intangible property that is not real property, including the following items as defined in the Texas Business and Commerce Code: consumer goods, equipment, farm products, inventory, accounts, instruments, chattel paper, documents, general intangibles, cash proceeds, and non-cash proceeds.

(8) Residential real estate--Land on which a house, a home, or an apartment house is located, including combinations of farm residences and commercial farm real estate.

(9) Unimproved real estate--Land which has no substantial improvements or utilities. All other real estate will be considered either residential real estate or commercial real estate.

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