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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Residential Mortgage License Act of 1987 is
5amended by changing Sections 1-3 and 1-4 as follows:
 
6    (205 ILCS 635/1-3)  (from Ch. 17, par. 2321-3)
7    Sec. 1-3. Necessity for license; scope of Act.
8    (a) No person, partnership, association, corporation or
9other entity shall engage in the business of brokering,
10funding, originating, servicing or purchasing of residential
11mortgage loans without first obtaining a license from the
12Secretary in accordance with the licensing procedure provided
13in this Article I and such regulations as may be promulgated by
14the Secretary. The licensing provisions of this Section shall
15not apply to any entity engaged solely in commercial mortgage
16lending or to any person, partnership association, corporation
17or other entity exempted pursuant to Section 1-4, subsection
18(d), of this Act or in accordance with regulations promulgated
19by the Secretary hereunder. No provision of this Act shall
20apply to an exempt person or entity as defined in items (1) and
21(1.5) of subsection (d) of Section 1-4 of this Act.
22Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding
23sentence, an individual acting as a mortgage loan originator

 

 

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1who is not employed by and acting for an entity described in
2item (1) of subsection (tt) of Section 1-4 of this Act shall be
3subject to the mortgage loan originator licensing requirements
4of Article VII of this Act.
5    Effective January 1, 2011, no provision of this Act shall
6apply to an exempt person or entity as defined in item (1.8) of
7subsection (d) of Section 1-4 of this Act. Notwithstanding
8anything to the contrary in the preceding sentence, an
9individual acting as a mortgage loan originator who is not
10employed by and acting for an entity described in item (1) of
11subsection (tt) of Section 1-4 of this Act shall be subject to
12the mortgage loan originator licensing requirements of Article
13VII of this Act, and provided that an individual acting as a
14mortgage loan originator under item (1.8) of subsection (d) of
15Section 1-4 of this Act shall be further subject to a
16determination by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
17Development through final rulemaking or other authorized
18agency determination under the federal Secure and Fair
19Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008.
20    (a-1) A person who is exempt from licensure pursuant to
21paragraph (ii) of item (1) of subsection (d) of Section 1-4 of
22this Act as a federally chartered savings bank that is
23registered with the Nationwide Multistate Mortgage Licensing
24System and Registry may apply to the Secretary for an exempt
25company registration for the purpose of sponsoring one or more
26individuals subject to the mortgage loan originator licensing

 

 

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1requirements of Article VII of this Act. Registration with the
2Division of Banking of the Department shall not affect the
3exempt status of the applicant.
4        (1) A mortgage loan originator eligible for licensure
5    under this subsection shall (A) be covered under an
6    exclusive written contract with, and originate residential
7    mortgage loans solely on behalf of, that exempt person; and
8    (B) hold a current, valid insurance producer license under
9    Article XXXI of the Illinois Insurance Code.
10        (2) An exempt person shall: (A) fulfill any reporting
11    requirements required by the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing
12    System and Registry or the Secretary; (B) provide a blanket
13    surety bond pursuant to Section 7-12 of this Act covering
14    the activities of all its sponsored mortgage loan
15    originators; (C) reasonably supervise the activities of
16    all its sponsored mortgage loan originators; (D) comply
17    with all rules and orders (including the averments
18    contained in Section 2-4 of this Act as applicable to a
19    non-licensed exempt entity provided for in this Section)
20    that the Secretary deems necessary to ensure compliance
21    with the federal SAFE Act; and (E) pay an annual
22    registration fee established by the Director.
23        (3) The Secretary may deny an exempt company
24    registration to an exempt person or fine, suspend, or
25    revoke an exempt company registration if the Secretary
26    finds one of the following:

 

 

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1            (A) that the exempt person is not a person of
2        honesty, truthfulness, or good character;
3            (B) that the exempt person violated any applicable
4        law, rule, or order;
5            (C) that the exempt person refused or failed to
6        furnish, within a reasonable time, any information or
7        make any report that may be required by the Secretary;
8            (D) that the exempt person had a final judgment
9        entered against him or her in a civil action on grounds
10        of fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation, and the
11        conduct on which the judgment is based indicates that
12        it would be contrary to the interest of the public to
13        permit the exempt person to manage a loan originator;
14            (E) that the exempt person had an order entered
15        against him or her involving fraud, deceit, or
16        misrepresentation by an administrative agency of this
17        State, the federal government, or any other state or
18        territory of the United States, and the facts relating
19        to the order indicate that it would be contrary to the
20        interest of the public to permit the exempt person to
21        manage a loan originator;
22            (F) that the exempt person made a material
23        misstatement or suppressed or withheld information on
24        the application for an exempt company registration or
25        any document required to be filed with the Secretary;
26        or

 

 

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1            (G) that the exempt person violated Section 4-5 of
2        this Act.
3    (a-5) An entity that is exempt from licensure pursuant to
4item (7) of subsection (d) of Section 1-4 of this Act as an
5independent loan processing entity shall annually apply to the
6Secretary through the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System
7and Registry for an exempt company registration for the purpose
8of sponsoring one or more individuals subject to the mortgage
9loan originator licensing requirements of Article VII of this
10Act. A loan processor who performs clerical or support duties
11at the direction of and subject to the supervision and
12instruction of a licensed mortgage loan originator sponsored by
13an independent loan processing entity shall be exempt from his
14or her own licensing as a mortgage loan originator. An
15independent loan processing entity shall not be subject to
16examination by the Secretary. The Secretary may adopt rules to
17implement any provisions necessary for the administration of
18this subsection.
19    (b) No person, partnership, association, corporation, or
20other entity except a licensee under this Act or an entity
21exempt from licensing pursuant to Section 1-4, subsection (d),
22of this Act shall do any business under any name or title, or
23circulate or use any advertising or make any representation or
24give any information to any person, which indicates or
25reasonably implies activity within the scope of this Act.
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1request the circuit court of either Cook or Sangamon County to
2issue an injunction to restrain any person from violating or
3continuing to violate any of the foregoing provisions of this
4Section.
5    (d) When the Secretary has reasonable cause to believe that
6any entity which has not submitted an application for licensure
7is conducting any of the activities described in subsection (a)
8hereof, the Secretary shall have the power to examine all books
9and records of the entity and any additional documentation
10necessary in order to determine whether such entity should
11become licensed under this Act.
12    (d-1) The Secretary may issue orders against any person if
13the Secretary has reasonable cause to believe that an unsafe,
14unsound, or unlawful practice has occurred, is occurring, or is
15about to occur, if any person has violated, is violating, or is
16about to violate any law, rule, or written agreement with the
17Secretary, or for the purposes of administering the provisions
18of this Act and any rule adopted in accordance with this Act.
19    (e) Any person, partnership, association, corporation or
20other entity who violates any provision of this Section commits
21a business offense and shall be fined an amount not to exceed
22$25,000. A mortgage loan brokered, funded, originated,
23serviced, or purchased by a party who is not licensed under
24this Section shall not be held to be invalid solely on the
25basis of a violation under this Section. The changes made to
26this Section by this amendatory Act of the 99th General

 

 

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1Assembly are declarative of existing law.
2    (f) Each person, partnership, association, corporation or
3other entity conducting activities regulated by this Act shall
4be issued one license. Each office, place of business or
5location at which a residential mortgage licensee conducts any
6part of his or her business must be recorded with the Secretary
7pursuant to Section 2-8 of this Act.
8    (g) Licensees under this Act shall solicit, broker, fund,
9originate, service and purchase residential mortgage loans
10only in conformity with the provisions of this Act and such
11rules and regulations as may be promulgated by the Secretary.
12    (h) This Act applies to all entities doing business in
13Illinois as residential mortgage bankers, as defined by "An Act
14to provide for the regulation of mortgage bankers", approved
15September 15, 1977, as amended, regardless of whether licensed
16under that or any prior Act. Any existing residential mortgage
17lender or residential mortgage broker in Illinois whether or
18not previously licensed, must operate in accordance with this
19Act.
20    (i) This Act is a successor Act to and a continuance of the
21regulation of residential mortgage bankers provided in, "An Act
22to provide for the regulation of mortgage bankers", approved
23September 15, 1977, as amended.
24    Entities and persons subject to the predecessor Act shall
25be subject to this Act from and after its effective date.
26(Source: P.A. 98-492, eff. 8-16-13; 99-113, eff. 7-23-15.)
 

 

 

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1    (205 ILCS 635/1-4)
2    Sec. 1-4. Definitions. The following words and phrases have
3the meanings given to them in this Section:
4        (a) "Residential real property" or "residential real
5    estate" shall mean any real property located in Illinois,
6    upon which is constructed or intended to be constructed a
7    dwelling. Those terms include a manufactured home as
8    defined in subdivision (53) of Section 9-102 of the Uniform
9    Commercial Code which is real property as defined in
10    Section 5-35 of the Conveyance and Encumbrance of
11    Manufactured Homes as Real Property and Severance Act.
12        (b) "Making a residential mortgage loan" or "funding a
13    residential mortgage loan" shall mean for compensation or
14    gain, either directly or indirectly, advancing funds or
15    making a commitment to advance funds to a loan applicant
16    for a residential mortgage loan.
17        (c) "Soliciting, processing, placing, or negotiating a
18    residential mortgage loan" shall mean for compensation or
19    gain, either directly or indirectly, accepting or offering
20    to accept an application for a residential mortgage loan,
21    assisting or offering to assist in the processing of an
22    application for a residential mortgage loan on behalf of a
23    borrower, or negotiating or offering to negotiate the terms
24    or conditions of a residential mortgage loan with a lender
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1    submission of credit packages for the approval of lenders,
2    the preparation of residential mortgage loan closing
3    documents, including a closing in the name of a broker.
4        (d) "Exempt person or entity" shall mean the following:
5            (1) (i) Any banking organization or foreign
6        banking corporation licensed by the Illinois
7        Commissioner of Banks and Real Estate or the United
8        States Comptroller of the Currency to transact
9        business in this State; (ii) any national bank,
10        federally chartered savings and loan association,
11        federal savings bank, federal credit union; (iii)
12        (blank); (iv) any bank, savings and loan association,
13        savings bank, or credit union organized under the laws
14        of this or any other state; (v) any Illinois Consumer
15        Installment Loan Act licensee; (vi) any insurance
16        company authorized to transact business in this State;
17        (vii) any entity engaged solely in commercial mortgage
18        lending; (viii) any service corporation of a savings
19        and loan association or savings bank organized under
20        the laws of this State or the service corporation of a
21        federally chartered savings and loan association or
22        savings bank having its principal place of business in
23        this State, other than a service corporation licensed
24        or entitled to reciprocity under the Real Estate
25        License Act of 2000; or (ix) any first tier subsidiary
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1        Illinois Banking Act by the Illinois Commissioner of
2        Banks and Real Estate, or the first tier subsidiary of
3        a bank chartered by the United States Comptroller of
4        the Currency and that has its principal place of
5        business in this State, provided that the first tier
6        subsidiary is regularly examined by the Illinois
7        Commissioner of Banks and Real Estate or the
8        Comptroller of the Currency, or a consumer compliance
9        examination is regularly conducted by the Federal
10        Reserve Board.
11            (1.5) Any employee of a person or entity mentioned
12        in item (1) of this subsection, when acting for such
13        person or entity, or any registered mortgage loan
14        originator when acting for an entity described in
15        subsection (tt) of this Section.
16            (1.8) Any person or entity that does not originate
17        mortgage loans in the ordinary course of business, but
18        makes or acquires residential mortgage loans with his
19        or her own funds for his or her or its own investment
20        without intent to make, acquire, or resell more than 3
21        residential mortgage loans in any one calendar year.
22            (2) (Blank).
23            (3) Any person employed by a licensee to assist in
24        the performance of the residential mortgage licensee's
25        activities regulated by this Act who is compensated in
26        any manner by only one licensee.

 

 

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1            (4) (Blank).
2            (5) Any individual, corporation, partnership, or
3        other entity that originates, services, or brokers
4        residential mortgage loans, as these activities are
5        defined in this Act, and who or which receives no
6        compensation for those activities, subject to the
7        Commissioner's regulations and the federal Secure and
8        Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 and
9        the rules promulgated under that Act with regard to the
10        nature and amount of compensation.
11            (6) (Blank).
12            (7) Any entity engaged solely in providing loan
13        processing services through the sponsoring of
14        individuals acting pursuant to subsection (d) of
15        Section 7-1A of this Act.
16        (e) "Licensee" or "residential mortgage licensee"
17    shall mean a person, partnership, association,
18    corporation, or any other entity who or which is licensed
19    pursuant to this Act to engage in the activities regulated
20    by this Act.
21        (f) "Mortgage loan" "residential mortgage loan" or
22    "home mortgage loan" shall mean any loan primarily for
23    personal, family, or household use that is secured by a
24    mortgage, deed of trust, or other equivalent consensual
25    security interest on a dwelling as defined in Section
26    103(v) of the federal Truth in Lending Act, or residential

 

 

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1    real estate upon which is constructed or intended to be
2    constructed a dwelling.
3        (g) "Lender" shall mean any person, partnership,
4    association, corporation, or any other entity who either
5    lends or invests money in residential mortgage loans.
6        (h) "Ultimate equitable owner" shall mean a person who,
7    directly or indirectly, owns or controls an ownership
8    interest in a corporation, foreign corporation, alien
9    business organization, trust, or any other form of business
10    organization regardless of whether the person owns or
11    controls the ownership interest through one or more persons
12    or one or more proxies, powers of attorney, nominees,
13    corporations, associations, partnerships, trusts, joint
14    stock companies, or other entities or devices, or any
15    combination thereof.
16        (i) "Residential mortgage financing transaction" shall
17    mean the negotiation, acquisition, sale, or arrangement
18    for or the offer to negotiate, acquire, sell, or arrange
19    for, a residential mortgage loan or residential mortgage
20    loan commitment.
21        (j) "Personal residence address" shall mean a street
22    address and shall not include a post office box number.
23        (k) "Residential mortgage loan commitment" shall mean
24    a contract for residential mortgage loan financing.
25        (l) "Party to a residential mortgage financing
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1    in a residential mortgage financing transaction.
2        (m) "Payments" shall mean payment of all or any of the
3    following: principal, interest and escrow reserves for
4    taxes, insurance and other related reserves, and
5    reimbursement for lender advances.
6        (n) "Commissioner" shall mean the Commissioner of
7    Banks and Real Estate, except that, beginning on April 6,
8    2009 (the effective date of Public Act 95-1047), all
9    references in this Act to the Commissioner of Banks and
10    Real Estate are deemed, in appropriate contexts, to be
11    references to the Secretary of Financial and Professional
12    Regulation, or his or her designee, including the Director
13    of the Division of Banking of the Department of Financial
14    and Professional Regulation.
15        (n-1) "Director" shall mean the Director of the
16    Division of Banking of the Department of Financial and
17    Professional Regulation, except that, beginning on July
18    31, 2009 (the effective date of Public Act 96-112), all
19    references in this Act to the Director are deemed, in
20    appropriate contexts, to be the Secretary of Financial and
21    Professional Regulation, or his or her designee, including
22    the Director of the Division of Banking of the Department
23    of Financial and Professional Regulation.
24        (o) "Loan brokering", "brokering", or "brokerage
25    service" shall mean the act of helping to obtain from
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1    residential real estate situated in Illinois or assisting a
2    borrower in obtaining a loan secured by residential real
3    estate situated in Illinois in return for consideration to
4    be paid by either the borrower or the lender including, but
5    not limited to, contracting for the delivery of residential
6    mortgage loans to a third party lender and soliciting,
7    processing, placing, or negotiating residential mortgage
8    loans.
9        (p) "Loan broker" or "broker" shall mean a person,
10    partnership, association, corporation, or limited
11    liability company, other than those persons, partnerships,
12    associations, corporations, or limited liability companies
13    exempted from licensing pursuant to Section 1-4,
14    subsection (d), of this Act, who performs the activities
15    described in subsections (c), (o), and (yy) of this
16    Section.
17        (q) "Servicing" shall mean the collection or
18    remittance for or the right or obligation to collect or
19    remit for any lender, noteowner, noteholder, or for a
20    licensee's own account, of payments, interests, principal,
21    and trust items such as hazard insurance and taxes on a
22    residential mortgage loan in accordance with the terms of
23    the residential mortgage loan; and includes loan payment
24    follow-up, delinquency loan follow-up, loan analysis and
25    any notifications to the borrower that are necessary to
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1    standing. "Servicing" includes management of third-party
2    entities acting on behalf of a residential mortgage
3    licensee for the collection of delinquent payments and the
4    use by such third-party entities of said licensee's
5    servicing records or information, including their use in
6    foreclosure.
7        (r) "Full service office" shall mean an office,
8    provided by the licensee and not subleased from the
9    licensee's employees, and staff in Illinois reasonably
10    adequate to handle efficiently communications, questions,
11    and other matters relating to any application for, or an
12    existing home mortgage secured by residential real estate
13    situated in Illinois with respect to which the licensee is
14    brokering, funding originating, purchasing, or servicing.
15    The management and operation of each full service office
16    must include observance of good business practices such as
17    proper signage; adequate, organized, and accurate books
18    and records; ample phone lines, hours of business, staff
19    training and supervision, and provision for a mechanism to
20    resolve consumer inquiries, complaints, and problems. The
21    Commissioner shall issue regulations with regard to these
22    requirements and shall include an evaluation of compliance
23    with this Section in his or her periodic examination of
24    each licensee.
25        (s) "Purchasing" shall mean the purchase of
26    conventional or government-insured mortgage loans secured

 

 

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1    by residential real estate situated in Illinois from either
2    the lender or from the secondary market.
3        (t) "Borrower" shall mean the person or persons who
4    seek the services of a loan broker, originator, or lender.
5        (u) "Originating" shall mean the issuing of
6    commitments for and funding of residential mortgage loans.
7        (v) "Loan brokerage agreement" shall mean a written
8    agreement in which a broker or loan broker agrees to do
9    either of the following:
10            (1) obtain a residential mortgage loan for the
11        borrower or assist the borrower in obtaining a
12        residential mortgage loan; or
13            (2) consider making a residential mortgage loan to
14        the borrower.
15        (w) "Advertisement" shall mean the attempt by
16    publication, dissemination, or circulation to induce,
17    directly or indirectly, any person to enter into a
18    residential mortgage loan agreement or residential
19    mortgage loan brokerage agreement relative to a mortgage
20    secured by residential real estate situated in Illinois.
21        (x) "Residential Mortgage Board" shall mean the
22    Residential Mortgage Board created in Section 1-5 of this
23    Act.
24        (y) "Government-insured mortgage loan" shall mean any
25    mortgage loan made on the security of residential real
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1    Development or Farmers Home Loan Administration, or
2    guaranteed by the Veterans Administration.
3        (z) "Annual audit" shall mean a certified audit of the
4    licensee's books and records and systems of internal
5    control performed by a certified public accountant in
6    accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
7    and generally accepted auditing standards.
8        (aa) "Financial institution" shall mean a savings and
9    loan association, savings bank, credit union, or a bank
10    organized under the laws of Illinois or a savings and loan
11    association, savings bank, credit union or a bank organized
12    under the laws of the United States and headquartered in
13    Illinois.
14        (bb) "Escrow agent" shall mean a third party,
15    individual or entity charged with the fiduciary obligation
16    for holding escrow funds on a residential mortgage loan
17    pending final payout of those funds in accordance with the
18    terms of the residential mortgage loan.
19        (cc) "Net worth" shall have the meaning ascribed
20    thereto in Section 3-5 of this Act.
21        (dd) "Affiliate" shall mean:
22            (1) any entity that directly controls or is
23        controlled by the licensee and any other company that
24        is directly affecting activities regulated by this Act
25        that is controlled by the company that controls the
26        licensee;

 

 

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1            (2) any entity:
2                (A) that is controlled, directly or
3            indirectly, by a trust or otherwise, by or for the
4            benefit of shareholders who beneficially or
5            otherwise control, directly or indirectly, by
6            trust or otherwise, the licensee or any company
7            that controls the licensee; or
8                (B) a majority of the directors or trustees of
9            which constitute a majority of the persons holding
10            any such office with the licensee or any company
11            that controls the licensee;
12            (3) any company, including a real estate
13        investment trust, that is sponsored and advised on a
14        contractual basis by the licensee or any subsidiary or
15        affiliate of the licensee.
16        (ee) "First tier subsidiary" shall be defined by
17    regulation incorporating the comparable definitions used
18    by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the
19    Illinois Commissioner of Banks and Real Estate.
20        (ff) "Gross delinquency rate" means the quotient
21    determined by dividing (1) the sum of (i) the number of
22    government-insured residential mortgage loans funded or
23    purchased by a licensee in the preceding calendar year that
24    are delinquent and (ii) the number of conventional
25    residential mortgage loans funded or purchased by the
26    licensee in the preceding calendar year that are delinquent

 

 

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1    by (2) the sum of (i) the number of government-insured
2    residential mortgage loans funded or purchased by the
3    licensee in the preceding calendar year and (ii) the number
4    of conventional residential mortgage loans funded or
5    purchased by the licensee in the preceding calendar year.
6        (gg) "Delinquency rate factor" means the factor set by
7    rule of the Commissioner that is multiplied by the average
8    gross delinquency rate of licensees, determined annually
9    for the immediately preceding calendar year, for the
10    purpose of determining which licensees shall be examined by
11    the Commissioner pursuant to subsection (b) of Section 4-8
12    of this Act.
13        (hh) "Loan originator" means any natural person who,
14    for compensation or in the expectation of compensation,
15    either directly or indirectly makes, offers to make,
16    solicits, places, or negotiates a residential mortgage
17    loan. This definition applies only to Section 7-1 of this
18    Act.
19        (ii) "Confidential supervisory information" means any
20    report of examination, visitation, or investigation
21    prepared by the Commissioner under this Act, any report of
22    examination visitation, or investigation prepared by the
23    state regulatory authority of another state that examines a
24    licensee, any document or record prepared or obtained in
25    connection with or relating to any examination,
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1    obtained by the Commissioner to the extent that the record
2    summarizes or contains information derived from any
3    report, document, or record described in this subsection.
4    "Confidential supervisory information" does not include
5    any information or record routinely prepared by a licensee
6    and maintained in the ordinary course of business or any
7    information or record that is required to be made publicly
8    available pursuant to State or federal law or rule.
9        (jj) "Mortgage loan originator" means an individual
10    who for compensation or gain or in the expectation of
11    compensation or gain:
12            (i) takes a residential mortgage loan application;
13        or
14            (ii) offers or negotiates terms of a residential
15        mortgage loan.
16        "Mortgage loan originator" includes an individual
17    engaged in loan modification activities as defined in
18    subsection (yy) of this Section. A mortgage loan originator
19    engaged in loan modification activities shall report those
20    activities to the Department of Financial and Professional
21    Regulation in the manner provided by the Department;
22    however, the Department shall not impose a fee for
23    reporting, nor require any additional qualifications to
24    engage in those activities beyond those provided pursuant
25    to this Act for mortgage loan originators.
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1    individual engaged solely as a loan processor or
2    underwriter except as otherwise provided in subsection (d)
3    of Section 7-1A of this Act.
4        "Mortgage loan originator" does not include a person or
5    entity that only performs real estate brokerage activities
6    and is licensed in accordance with the Real Estate License
7    Act of 2000, unless the person or entity is compensated by
8    a lender, a mortgage broker, or other mortgage loan
9    originator, or by any agent of that lender, mortgage
10    broker, or other mortgage loan originator.
11        "Mortgage loan originator" does not include a person or
12    entity solely involved in extensions of credit relating to
13    timeshare plans, as that term is defined in Section
14    101(53D) of Title 11, United States Code.
15        (kk) "Depository institution" has the same meaning as
16    in Section 3 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, and
17    includes any credit union.
18        (ll) "Dwelling" means a residential structure or
19    mobile home which contains one to 4 family housing units,
20    or individual units of condominiums or cooperatives.
21        (mm) "Immediate family member" means a spouse, child,
22    sibling, parent, grandparent, or grandchild, and includes
23    step-parents, step-children, step-siblings, or adoptive
24    relationships.
25        (nn) "Individual" means a natural person.
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1    individual who performs clerical or support duties as an
2    employee at the direction of and subject to the supervision
3    and instruction of a person licensed, or exempt from
4    licensing, under this Act. "Clerical or support duties"
5    includes subsequent to the receipt of an application:
6            (i) the receipt, collection, distribution, and
7        analysis of information common for the processing or
8        underwriting of a residential mortgage loan; and
9            (ii) communicating with a consumer to obtain the
10        information necessary for the processing or
11        underwriting of a loan, to the extent that the
12        communication does not include offering or negotiating
13        loan rates or terms, or counseling consumers about
14        residential mortgage loan rates or terms. An
15        individual engaging solely in loan processor or
16        underwriter activities shall not represent to the
17        public, through advertising or other means of
18        communicating or providing information, including the
19        use of business cards, stationery, brochures, signs,
20        rate lists, or other promotional items, that the
21        individual can or will perform any of the activities of
22        a mortgage loan originator.
23        (pp) "Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and
24    Registry" means a mortgage licensing system developed and
25    maintained by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors and
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1    Regulators for the licensing and registration of licensed
2    mortgage loan originators.
3        (qq) "Nontraditional mortgage product" means any
4    mortgage product other than a 30-year fixed rate mortgage.
5        (rr) "Person" means a natural person, corporation,
6    company, limited liability company, partnership, or
7    association.
8        (ss) "Real estate brokerage activity" means any
9    activity that involves offering or providing real estate
10    brokerage services to the public, including:
11            (1) acting as a real estate agent or real estate
12        broker for a buyer, seller, lessor, or lessee of real
13        property;
14            (2) bringing together parties interested in the
15        sale, purchase, lease, rental, or exchange of real
16        property;
17            (3) negotiating, on behalf of any party, any
18        portion of a contract relating to the sale, purchase,
19        lease, rental, or exchange of real property, other than
20        in connection with providing financing with respect to
21        any such transaction;
22            (4) engaging in any activity for which a person
23        engaged in the activity is required to be registered or
24        licensed as a real estate agent or real estate broker
25        under any applicable law; or
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1        any capacity, described in this subsection (ss).
2        (tt) "Registered mortgage loan originator" means any
3    individual that:
4            (1) meets the definition of mortgage loan
5        originator and is an employee of:
6                (A) a depository institution;
7                (B) a subsidiary that is:
8                    (i) owned and controlled by a depository
9                institution; and
10                    (ii) regulated by a federal banking
11                agency; or
12                (C) an institution regulated by the Farm
13            Credit Administration; and
14            (2) is registered with, and maintains a unique
15        identifier through, the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing
16        System and Registry.
17        (uu) "Unique identifier" means a number or other
18    identifier assigned by protocols established by the
19    Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry.
20        (vv) "Residential mortgage license" means a license
21    issued pursuant to Section 1-3, 2-2, or 2-6 of this Act.
22        (ww) "Mortgage loan originator license" means a
23    license issued pursuant to Section 7-1A, 7-3, or 7-6 of
24    this Act.
25        (xx) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Department
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1    authorized by the Secretary or by this Act to act in the
2    Secretary's stead.
3        (yy) "Loan modification" means, for compensation or
4    gain, either directly or indirectly offering or
5    negotiating on behalf of a borrower or homeowner to adjust
6    the terms of a residential mortgage loan in a manner not
7    provided for in the original or previously modified
8    mortgage loan.
9        (zz) "Short sale facilitation" means, for compensation
10    or gain, either directly or indirectly offering or
11    negotiating on behalf of a borrower or homeowner to
12    facilitate the sale of residential real estate subject to
13    one or more residential mortgage loans or debts
14    constituting liens on the property in which the proceeds
15    from selling the residential real estate will fall short of
16    the amount owed and the lien holders are contacted to agree
17    to release their lien on the residential real estate and
18    accept less than the full amount owed on the debt.
19    The Commissioner may define by rule and regulation any
20terms used in this Act for the efficient and clear
21administration of this Act.
22(Source: P.A. 98-749, eff. 7-16-14; 98-1081, eff. 1-1-15;
2399-78, eff. 7-20-15.)
 
24    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
25becoming law.