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<chapter num="09" heading="Mortgage Loans" title_num="31" subtitle_num="05">
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" heading="Information To Be Filed.">
    <text>All companies shall have the following information filed with each mortgage, and kept ready for convenient inspection by examiners from this Administration:</text>
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>The mortgage note and deed, and all assignments of them, properly recorded;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>A detailed appraisal of the property securing the mortgage, made by a disinterested, unaffiliated appraiser, with the appraiser's qualifications attached; an appraisal made by any competent licensed real estate operator with a short statement of the licensed real estate operator's experience is sufficient; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>One of the following:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>A title insurance policy,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>An abstract of title to the property made by a qualified attorney and certified by him,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>A certificate of title from the attorney making the title examination;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="D.">
      <text>Fire insurance policies upon all improvements, with standard mortgagee clause attached; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="E.">
      <text>A record of the amount at which the property is appraised for taxation at the date of the loan and the date to which all State, county, and municipal taxes on the property have been paid.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" heading="Required Procedure.">
    <text>An insurance company that is a party to a mortgage loan participation agreement shall have the items listed in Regulation .01A and B of this chapter in its possession. The insurer may have the lending institution certify annually that the items listed in Regulation .01C, D, and E of this chapter are in force or have been paid.</text>
  </regulation>
  <annotations>
    <annotation type="Authority">Insurance Article, §§2-109 and 5-511(g), Annotated Code of Maryland</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Effective date: February 11, 1941</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Amended effective May 1, 1968</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .01 amended effective November 6, 1995 (22:22 Md. R. 1657)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .02 adopted effective June 7, 1982 (9:11 Md. R. 1126)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Chapter recodified from COMAR 09.30.15 to COMAR 31.05.09 effective September 7, 1998 (25:18 Md. R. 1439)</annotation>
  </annotations>
</chapter>