2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 57 - PLANNING, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 10 - Small Business Assistance.
57-10-121 - Proceedings by lender upon default on loan; assignment of unsatisfied judgment to state.

§ 57-10-121. Proceedings by lender upon default on loan; assignment of unsatisfied judgment to state.
 

If the borrower defaults in the payment of any loan or any installments thereof, fails to follow his plan and applies any installment or installments of his loan to purposes other than those in his plan as certified by the committee, violates any of the covenants and conditions contained in the instrument securing the loan, or fails to comply with any other provision of this article, the lender shall proceed to collect the entire amount due under the loan. 
 

In the event the lender proceeds to collect the loan, he shall be required to follow the procedures as established by the committee and shall not have a claim against either the guaranty fee fund or the small businessman's loan fund in the state treasury unless or until he has first exhausted his legal rights and remedies in aid of the collection of the loan which include, but are not limited to, his rights under the following: (a) promissory note or notes and signers or endorsers thereon; (b) deeds of trust and mortgages; (c) security agreements; and (d) any set-offs or counterclaims which include the right to foreclose the deeds of trust or mortgages and to sell, or cause to be sold, the property secured thereby and obtain a judgment or decree for any balance remaining due on the loan after such foreclosures and sale of the property given as security. 
 

When the lender has obtained a judgment or decree against the borrower for any deficiency in the amount of the principal of the loan and interest not realized in the sale of the mortgaged property or otherwise, the lender must have execution issued on any such judgment or decree. If the judgment is not satisfied following execution, the lender shall then assign the judgment or decree to the State of Mississippi, using such form of assignment as may be prescribed by regulation promulgated by the committee, before either of the two (2) said funds in the state treasury may be liable in anywise for the benefit of the lender; however, the committee may determine that it is economically or legally infeasible for the lender to obtain a judgment or decree against the borrower, such determination and the reasons therefor to be reflected in the minutes of the committee. Upon the making of such a determination, the committee will succeed to whatever rights the lender may possess in place of a judgment or decree. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 8940-141; Laws,  1972, ch. 441, § 11; Laws, 1981, ch. 417, § 1, eff from and after passage (approved March 25, 1981).