Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, an industrial loan company may make a loan or acquire an obligation that is repayable in unequal periodic payments during its term and that is secured by either real property or personal property. In order to ensure the safety and soundness of industrial loan companies and to avoid an unreasonable concentration of loans and obligations that could result in balloon payments, all these loans and obligations with a term in excess of 10 years shall be repaid in substantially equal weekly, semimonthly, monthly, or quarterly installments during the term. For purposes of this section, “real property” means real property other than home loans and other residential real property loans subject to Title VIII (Alternative Mortgage Transaction Parity Act of 1982) of the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982, as those terms are defined in Part 541 of Title 12 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as amended. For purposes of this section, the term of a nonconsumer loan or a nonconsumer obligation secured solely or primarily by personal property shall not exceed 15 years and 30 days from the date the loan is made or obligation is acquired by the industrial loan company. For purposes of this section, the term of a nonconsumer loan or a nonconsumer obligation secured primarily by real property shall be as set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 18210.

(Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 201, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1998.)