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99A.010 Definitions for chapter.
As used in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Corporation" means the Kentucky Housing Corporation;
(2) "Executive director" means the executive director of the Kentucky Housing
Corporation;
(3) "Insurer" means any company qualified to write mortgage guaranty insurance in
accordance with Subtitle 23 of KRS Chapter 304;
(4) "Local government" means a county, city, consolidated local government, or urbancounty;
(5) "Mortgage" shall mean a first mortgage on real estate, in fee simple, or on a
leasehold under a lease for not less than ninety-nine (99) years which is renewable,
or under a lease having a period of not less than fifty (50) years to run from the date
the mortgage was executed;
(6) "Mortgage guaranty fund" means the fund created pursuant to KRS 99A.080;
(7) "Mortgagee" means the original lender under a mortgage and his successors and
assigns;
(8) "Mortgagor" means the original borrower under a mortgage and his successors and
assigns;
(9) "Rehabilitation" means the process of returning a structure to a state of utility
through repair or alteration which makes possible an efficient contemporary use
while preserving those portions or features of the property which are significant to
historical, architectural, and cultural values;
(10) "Rehabilitation loan" means a loan, advance of credit, or purchase of an obligation
representing a loan or advance of credit, made for the purpose of financing:
(a) The rehabilitation of an existing residential building;
(b) The rehabilitation of such a structure and the refinancing of the outstanding
indebtedness on such structure and the real property on which the structure is
located; or
(c) The rehabilitation of such a structure and the purchase of the structure and the
real property on which it is located; and
(11) "Residential building" means a building in which sleeping accommodations or
sleeping accommodations and cooking facilities as a unit are provided except when
classified as an institution under the Kentucky Building Code.
Effective: July 15, 2002
History: Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 346, sec. 132, effective July 15, 2002. -- Created
1984 Ky. Acts ch. 174, sec. 2, effective July 13, 1984.
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