428.101 Applicability. This subchapter applies to:
(1) Loans made on or after April 6, 1980 and prior to November 1, 1981, by a creditor other than a savings and loan association to a customer and which are secured by a first lien real estate mortgage or equivalent security interest if the amount financed is $25,000 or less.
(2) Loans made prior to April 6, 1980, by a creditor other than a savings and loan association and loans made before November 1, 1981, by a savings and loan association to a customer and which are secured by a first lien real estate mortgage or equivalent security interest if the annual percentage rate does not exceed 12 percent per year and the amount financed is $25,000 or less.
(3) Loans made on or after November 1, 1981, by a creditor to a customer and which are secured by a first lien real estate mortgage or equivalent security interest if the amount financed is $25,000 or less.
History: 1973 c. 18; 1979 c. 110 s. 60 (13); 1979 c. 168; 1981 c. 45; 2003 a. 257; 2005 a. 215.
A second mortgage constitutes an equivalent security interest under this section when held by a savings and loan association that holds the first mortgage and there are no intervening liens. 63 Atty. Gen. 557.