2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 29 - Mortgages and Other Liens
CHAPTER 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 29-1-50. Unlawful use of dual contracts to induce loan commitment on real property.
It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly make, issue, deliver or receive dual contracts for the purchase or sale of real property. "Dual contracts", either written or oral, are two contracts concerning the same parcel of real property, one of which states the true and actual purchase price and one of which states a purchase price in excess of the true and actual purchase price and is used as an inducement for mortgage investors to make a loan commitment on such real property in reliance upon the stated inflated value.
Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or be imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 45-6; 1966 (54) 2284.
