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B-183515 1 (1975-09-16)

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FILE:  B-183515


PATE:SEP   16 1975


MATTER OF: Title I Housing Act Claim


DIGEST:


Bank's claims for loss on refinanced note for term in
excess of taximum maturity allowable under title I of
National Housing Act and implcenting regulations which
was resubmaitted for payment on basis of original note
marked paid by renewal with legend stamped in error,
cannot be certified for payment since new note executed
within conteamplation of refinancing proviso of IvNational
Alousing Act and regulations necessarily operates as
discharge of original note.


     This decision to Mr. B. C. Tyner, an authorized certifying
officer of the Departant of Housing and Urban DevelopMent (HUD),
is in response to his letter dated March 24, 1975, requesting advice
as to whether a voucher enclosed therewith payable to Farmers and
Merchants Bank, Spokane, Washington, in the amount of $1,250.71 may
be certified for payment. The vouc-her covers a claim on a Federal
Housing Administration (1HA) loan maade by the bank upon the borrow-
ers' FHA Title I note, which loan was insured pursuant to title I
of the National Housing Act, as amended, 12 U.S.C. Z, 1701 tL*

     Mr. Tyner's  xplanation of the pertinent facts and circum-
stances giving rise to his question is set forth below.

     The note in question was ado pursuant to a credit application
Submitted to the bank on arch 3, 1972. The proceeds of the loan
were disbursed to the borrowers ,on March 8, 1972, and on March 8,
1972, the borrowers executed a note in the amount of $1,S65.04 rep-
resenting an amount financed of 11,000, and a finance charge of
$265.04, with an annual percentage rate of 10.25 percent. The
borrowere subsequently encountered difficulties and the obligation
of March 8, 1972, was refinanced by another note on October 26, 1972,
for a term of 110 Months.

     At the time of the foregoing transactions, section 2(b) of the
National Housing Act, as amended, 12 U.S.C. 1 1703(b) (1970) pro-
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