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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="4-709" title_number="4" title_name="Division of Development Finance" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Lead Hazard Reduction Grant Program and Lead Hazard Reduction Loan Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Lead Hazard Reduction Loan Program.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Department may make a loan to finance lead hazard reduction activity.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A loan under the Loan Program:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>may be secured by a mortgage lien or other security interest acceptable to the Department; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>may include terms that the Department considers appropriate.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>For a loan made under the Loan Program, the Department may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>defer payment of principal and interest; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>establish interest rates as low as 0%.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Each loan shall require repayment of all unpaid principal and payment of accrued interest, including deferred interest, but the loan terms may allow the Department to forgive all or part of the principal and interest.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>If a loan is in default, the Department may modify the interest rate, the time or amount of payment, or any other term to facilitate repayment and achieve the purposes of the Loan Program.</text>
  </level>
</section>
