2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 29 - Mortgages and Other Liens
CHAPTER 4 - REVERSE MORTGAGES
Section 29-4-40. Reverse mortgage loans authorized without regard to certain provisions for other types of mortgage transactions.
Reverse mortgage loans may be made or acquired without regard to the following provisions for other types of mortgage transactions:
(1) limitations on the purpose and use of future advances or any other mortgage proceeds;
(2) limitations on future advances to a term of years, or limitations on the term of credit line advances;
(3) limitations on the term during which future advances take priority over intervening advances;
(4) requirements that a maximum mortgage amount be stated in the mortgage;
(5) limitations on loan-to-value ratios;
(6) prohibitions on balloon payments;
(7) prohibitions on compounded interest and interest on interest;
(8) interest rate limits under the usury statutes; and
(9) requirements that a percentage of the loan proceeds must be advanced prior to loan assignment.
HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 376, Section 1.
