OAR 123-018-0065: Loan Eligibility

A Participating Financial Institution may determine that a Qualified Loan is eligible for the Department to enroll in the Program if the Participating Financial Institution determines the Qualified Loan meets the following conditions: (1) The Qualified Loan is not for a business enterprise in which a person described in section (2) of this section has a shared ownership, investment or other significant pecuniary interest; and (2) The Qualified Loan is provided to a Borrower, who is not an executive officer, director or principal shareholder of the Participating Financial Institution, or person with comparable official capacity with or significant ownership in the Participating Financial Institution, or a member of the immediate family of such a person. (3) The Borrower may not be: (a) A business engaged in speculative activities that develop profits from fluctuations in price rather than through normal course of trade unless those activities are incidental to the regular activities of the business and part of a legitimate risk management strategy to guard against price fluctuations related to the regular activities of the business; or (b) A business that earn more than half of its annual net revenue from lending activities; or (c) A business engaged in pyramid sales, where a participant’s primary incentive is based on the sales made by an ever-increasing number of participants; or (d) A business engaged in activities that are prohibited by federal law or applicable law in the jurisdiction where the business is located or conducted; or (E) A business engaged in gambling enterprises, unless the business earns less than 33% of its annual net revenue from lottery sales.