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PUBLIC LAW 87-70-JUNE 30, 1961

ards, (2) the utilization and testing of the advanced technology or experimental property standards involved will provide data or experience which the Commissioner deems to be significant in reducing housing costs or improving housing standards, quality, livability, or durability, or improving neighborhood design, and (3) the mortgages are eligible for insurance under the provisions of this section and under any further terms and conditions which may be prescribed by the Commissioner to establish the acceptability of the mortgages for insurance. "(b) To be eligible for insurance under this section a mortgage shall— "(1) meet the requirements of section 203(b), except that the maximum principal obligation of the mortgage as computed under clauses (i), (ii), and (iii) of section 203(b)(2) shall be determined on the basis of the Commissioner's estimate of the cost of replacing the property using comparable conventional design, materials, and construction rather than value, and the proviso in section 203(b)(8) shall not be applicable to mortgages insured under this section; or "(2) meet the requirements of section 207(b) and section 207 (c), except that the maximum principal obligation of the mortgage as computed under section 207(c)(2) shall be determined on the basis of the Commissioner's estimate of the cost of replacing the property using comparable conventional design, materials, and construction rather than value. "(c) The Commissioner may enter into such contracts, agreements, and financial undertakings with the mortgagor and others as he deems necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of this section, and may expend available funds for such purposes, including the correction (when he determines it necessary to protect the occupants), at any time subsequent to insurance of a mortgage, of defects or failures in the dwellings which the Commissioner finds are caused by or related to the advanced housing technology utilized in their design or construction or experimental property standards. " (d) The Commissioner may make such investigations and analyses of data, and publish and distribute such reports, as he determines to be necessary or desirable to assure the most beneficial use of the data and information to be acquired as a result of this section. "(e) Any mortgagee under a mortgage insured under subsection (b)(1) of this section shall be entitled to the benefits of the insurance as provided in section 204(a) with respect to mortgages insured under section 203, and the provisions of subsections (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), is)i Wi (1)5 ^i^d (k) of section 204 shall apply to the mortgages insured under subsection (b)(1), except that as applied to those mortgages (1) all references therein to the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund or the Fund shall be construed to refer to the Experimental Housing Insurance Fund, and (2) all references therein to section 203 shall be construed to refer to this section. "(f) Any mortgagee under a mortgage insured under subsection (b)(2) of this section shall be entitled to the benefits of the insurance as provided in section 207(g) with respect to mortgages insured under section 207, and the provisions of subsections (d), (e), (h), (i), (j), (k), (1), (m), (n), and (p) of section 207 shall apply to the mortgages insured under subsection (b)(2) of this section, except that as applied to those mortgages (1) all references therein to the Housing Insurance Fund, the Housing Fund, or the Fund shall be construed to refer to the Experimental Housing Insurance Fund, and (2) all references therein to 'this section' shall be construed to refer to this section 233.

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Eligibility. 12 USC 1709.

12 USC 1713.

12 USC 1710

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