1161.42 Student loans. - Ohio Statutes

1161.42 Student loans.

(A) A savings bank may lend, or purchase loans that have been made, on such terms as are provided by the savings bank upon obligations secured by pledge of any negotiable evidence of debt arising from loans for the payment of expenses of education. The borrower shall certify to the savings bank that the proceeds of the loan are to be used by a full-time or half-time student solely for the payment of expenses of college, university, technical, vocational, or post-secondary education. For the purpose of this section, “education” means education at an institution which has been certified eligible to participate in federal guaranteed student loan programs by the United States department of education pursuant to the “Higher Education Act of 1965,” 20 U.S.C.A. 1071 et seq., as amended. The aggregate of all loans for education shall at no time exceed five per cent of the savings bank’s assets.

(B) A savings bank may lend on such terms as are provided by the savings bank upon obligations secured by pledge of stock or deposits in the savings bank, but the loans shall not exceed the face value of the stock or deposits.

(C) A savings bank may lend on such terms as are provided by the savings bank upon obligations secured by pledge of any of the securities provided for in section 1161.54 of the Revised Code not in excess of ten per cent of the assets of the savings bank.

(D) Notwithstanding sections 1161.36 to 1161.41 and 1161.70 of the Revised Code, a savings bank may make loans to its members or others evidenced by notes secured by mortgage or representing obligations insured by the federal housing administrator or the secretary of agriculture of the United States under Title I of “The Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act,” 50 Stat. 515 (1937), 7 U.S.C. 1010, as amended, and may sell or hypothecate the notes. Savings banks may do all things necessary to obtain this insurance.

(E) A savings bank may make or acquire loans made for a project as defined in section 122.39 of the Revised Code, the payments on which are partly insured by the director of development pursuant to section 122.451 of the Revised Code.

Effective Date: 12-02-1996