On May 20, 2019 the South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs announced (in Release # 19-09) that their headquarters are moving from their current location on Devine Street to a new address on Greystone Boulevard, in Columbia, South Carolina. The Department will open for operation at the new address starting May 24th….
Even though four states refer to themselves as commonwealths (Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia), none of these states use the word “commonwealth” in their respective statutory notarial certificate examples. These notarial certificate examples show the word “state” instead.
In an effort to streamline notarial certificates to be more uniform and compliant,…
On May 7, 2019 Gov. Tim Walz (DFL) signed into law MN HF 1840 (2019) which removes references to “subprime” in several sections of Minnesota’s Statutes (see https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF1840&ssn=0&y=2019), including references in Minn. Stat. Ann. § 58.13(1)(a)(18), which requires certain disclosures for loans with a lower investment grade….
As previously announced, the Government of Utah repealed the provisions formerly found in Utah Code Ann. § 17-21-18.5(4)(b) which required documents for loans subject to RESPA to contain the caption “RESPA” before they are recorded.
Pursuant to this repeal,…
On May 6, 2019 Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) signed into law IN HB 1136 (2019), which (inter alia) amends Ind. Code Ann. § 34-4.5-3-203.5 to establish a tiered late payment charge restriction structure based on the frequency of when installment payments become due (e.g.…
On May 1, 2019 Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) signed into law IN HB 1487 (2019) which, inter alia, amends Ind. Code Ann. § 26-1-9.1-521 to permit the use of either the Indiana Secretary of State’s version of the Uniform Commercial Code (“UCC”) forms (e.g.…
On May 1, 2019 Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) signed into law IN HB 1440 (2019), which repeals Chapter 5, Article 2, Title 23 of Indiana’s Code (concerning loan brokers) and substantively replaces it with new Article 2.5, Title 23 (see http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2019/bills/house/1440)….
It has come to our attention that the Office of Recorder of Deeds for Washington County, Pennsylvania will only accept documents which have a font size of 12 or larger on all pages submitted for recording.
Consequently, we are increasing the font size to 12 point for the following Washington County,…
On April 25, 2019 Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) signed into law CO HB 19-1172 (2019), which concerns “an organizational recodification of Title 12 of the Colorado Revised Statutes” (see https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1172).
We are currently reviewing this change to determine any impact to our document library and/or systems and evaluating any necessary changes….
By: Timothy A. Raty; Sr. Regulatory Compliance Specialist
“This thing is like an onion. The more layers you peel, the more it stinks.” (George Costanza, Seinfeld, Season 8: The Soul Mate)
One of the more intriguing conundrums of TRID (particularly TRID 2.0) is 12 CFR § 1026.38(j)(1)(v),…
