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66.1317

66.1317 Urban redevelopment; borrowing; mortgages.

66.1317(1)

(1) A redevelopment corporation may borrow funds and secure the repayment of the funds by mortgage. Every mortgage shall contain reasonable amortization provisions and may be a lien upon no other real property except that forming the whole or a part of a single development area.

66.1317(2)

(2)

66.1317(2)(a)

(a) Certificates, bonds and notes, or part interests in, or any part of an issue of, these instruments, which are issued by a redevelopment corporation and secured by a first mortgage on all or part of the real property of the redevelopment corporation are securities in which all of the following persons, partnerships or corporations and public bodies or public officers may legally invest the funds within their control:

66.1317(2)(a)1.

1. Every personal representative, trustee, guardian, committee, or other person or corporation holding trust funds or acting in a fiduciary capacity.

66.1317(2)(a)2.

2. The state, its subdivisions, cities, all other public bodies and all public officers.

66.1317(2)(a)3.

3. Persons, partnerships and corporations organized under or subject to the provisions of the banking law, including savings banks, savings and loan associations, trust companies, bankers and private banking corporations.

66.1317(2)(a)4.

4. The division of banking as conservator, liquidator or rehabilitator of any person, partnership or corporation and persons, partnerships or corporations organized under or subject to chs. 600 to 646.

66.1317(2)(a)5.

5. The commissioner of insurance as conservator, liquidator or rehabilitator of any person, partnership or corporation.

66.1317(2)(b)

(b) The principal amount of the securities described in par. (a) may not exceed the limits, if any, imposed by law for investments by the person, partnership, corporation, public body or public officer making the investment.

66.1317(3)

(3) A mortgage on the real property in a development area may create a first lien, or a 2nd or other junior lien, upon the real property.

66.1317(4)

(4) The limits as to principal amount secured by mortgage referred to in sub. (2) do not apply to certificates, bonds and notes, or part interests in, or any part of an issue of, these instruments, which are secured by first mortgage on real property in a development area, which the federal housing administrator has insured or has made a commitment to insure under the national housing act. A person, partnership, corporation, public body or public officer described in sub. (2) may receive and hold any debentures, certificates or other instruments issued or delivered by the federal housing administrator, pursuant to the national housing act, in compliance with the contract of insurance of a mortgage on all or part of real property in the development area.

66.1317 - ANNOT.

History: 1977 c. 339 s. 43; 1979 c. 89; 1995 a. 27, 225; 1999 a. 150 ss. 418, 419; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1317; 2001 a. 102.