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Title 7. BANKING AND FINANCE · Chapter 6A. GEORGIA FAIR LENDING ACT

7-6A-9. Failure to comply by creditors, servicers, or insurers providing insurance through premiums financed by creditor.

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  1. A creditor or servicer or an insurer providing insurance through premiums financed by a creditor of a home loan who, when acting in good faith, fails to comply with the provisions of this chapter will not be deemed to have violated this chapter if the creditor or servicer or insurer providing insurance through premiums financed by a creditor establishes that either:

  2. (1)

    Within 90 days of the loan closing and prior to receiving any notice from the borrower of the compliance failure, (A) the creditor or servicer has offered appropriate restitution to the borrower and appropriate adjustments are made to the loan or (B) to correct a compliance failure of paragraph (1) of Code Section 7-6A-3, an insurer providing insurance through premiums financed by a creditor may provide appropriate restitution to the borrower by returning premiums paid plus interest charged on the premiums to the borrower upon receipt of notice of the compliance failure; or#

  3. (2)

    Within 90 days of discovering a compliance failure and prior to receiving any notice of the compliance failure and the compliance failure was not intentional and resulted from a bona fide error notwithstanding the maintenance of procedures reasonably adapted to avoid such errors, the borrower is notified of the compliance failure, appropriate restitution is offered to the borrower, and appropriate adjustments are made to the loan. Examples of a bona fide error include clerical, calculation, computer malfunction and programming, and printing errors. An error of legal judgment with respect to a person’s obligations under this chapter is not a bona fide error.#

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History

Code 1981, § 7-6A-9, enacted by Ga. L. 2002, p. 455, § 1; Ga. L. 2003, p. 1, § 1.

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