Files
republic-os/legal/us/code/title-12/chapter-13/section-1715t.md
T
Fabio 76b8ec33a7 Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)
Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code
now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 10:51:44 -04:00

44 lines
3.8 KiB
Markdown
Raw Blame History

This file contains ambiguous Unicode characters
This file contains Unicode characters that might be confused with other characters. If you think that this is intentional, you can safely ignore this warning. Use the Escape button to reveal them.
---
type: "LegalText"
title: "12 U.S.C. § 1715t"
description: "Voluntary termination of insurance"
jurisdiction: "us"
corpus: "united_states_code"
kind: "code_section"
title_number: 12
title_name: "BANKS AND BANKING"
chapter_number: "13"
chapter_name: "NATIONAL HOUSING"
section: "1715t"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 1715t"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
source: "official"
source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc12@119-100.zip"
source_identifier: "/us/usc/t12/s1715t"
source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-12/usc12.xml"
source_hash: "d3ebe13738064e29510761b777f2fd56b27b1a07a432a5ca0dd7c2b9fa397dd2"
raw_snapshot_hash: "e6b98700ef4156ac33fde5d105824845d727afa91a53f3762be2cf4d1a3b01fa"
text_hash: "88c0fb8942c8be310f1a434a0a93e77506796f102e234937e8926cae5df7e5ad"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
confidence: "official"
tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
---
# 12 U.S.C. § 1715t - Voluntary termination of insurance
## Text
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter and with respect to any loan or mortgage heretofore or hereafter insured under this chapter, except under section 1703 of this title and except as specified under section 1715z15 of this title and subtitle B of the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987,,11 So in original. the Secretary is authorized to terminate any insurance contract upon request by the borrower or mortgagor and the financial institution or mortgagee and upon payment of such termination charge as the Secretary determines to be equitable, taking into consideration the necessity of protecting the various insurance Funds. Upon such termination, borrowers and mortgagors and financial institutions and mortgagees shall be entitled to the rights, if any, to which they would be entitled under this chapter if the insurance contract were terminated by payment in full of the insured loan or mortgage.
(June 27, 1934, ch. 847, title II, § 229, as added Pub. L. 86372, title I, § 113, Sept. 23, 1959, 73 Stat. 662; amended Pub. L. 8770, title VI, § 612(l), June 30, 1961, 75 Stat. 183; Pub. L. 89117, title XI, § 1108(k), Aug. 10, 1965, 79 Stat. 505; Pub. L. 9019, § 1(a)(3), May 25, 1967, 81 Stat. 17; Pub. L. 101235, title II, § 202(d)(2), Dec. 15, 1989, 103 Stat. 2037.)
## Notes
Editorial Notes
References in TextThis chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning act June 27, 1934, ch. 847, 48 Stat. 1246, which is classified principally to this chapter (§ 1701 et seq.). For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. The Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987, referred to in text, is title II of Pub. L. 100242, Feb. 5, 1988, 101 Stat. 1877, which, as amended by Pub. L. 101625, is known as the Low-Income Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990. Subtitle B of title II, which was formerly set out as a note under section 1715l of this title and which amended section 1715z6 of this title, was amended generally by Pub. L. 101625 and is classified generally to subchapter I (§ 4101 et seq.) of chapter 42 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 4101 of this title and Tables.
Amendments1989—Pub. L. 101235 inserted “and except as specified under section 1715z15 of this title and subtitle B of the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987,” after “section 1703 of this title”. 1967—Pub. L. 9019 substituted “Secretary” for “Commissioner” wherever appearing. 1965—Pub. L. 89117 struck out “and Accounts” after “various Insurance Funds”. 1961—Pub. L. 8770 amended section generally, authorizing voluntary termination of insurance contracts with respect to loans insured under this chapter.