11-11-102. Contracts--Mortgage loans--Foreclosure. The authority, to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this chapter, may:

(1) Contract for services with architects, engineers, attorneys, accountants, housing construction and financial experts, and other advisers, consultants, and agents and to fix their compensation;

(2) Renegotiate, refinance or foreclose, or contract for the foreclosure of, any mortgage in default; waive any default or consent to the modification of the terms of any mortgage; commence any action to protect or enforce any right conferred upon the authority by any law, mortgage, contract, or other agreement, and bid for and purchase such property at any foreclosure or at any other sale, or acquire or take possession of any such property; operate, manage, lease, dispose of, and otherwise deal with such property, in such manner as may be necessary to protect the interests of the authority and the holders of its bonds;

(3) Make and execute contracts with mortgage bankers, other financial institutions, or government agencies in this state, or outside this state if none which are qualified are located within this state, for the servicing of mortgages acquired by the authority pursuant to this chapter, and pay the reasonable value of services rendered to the authority pursuant to those contracts;

(4) Consent to any modification with respect to rate of interest, time and payment of any installment of principal or interest, security, or any other term of any contract, mortgage, mortgage loan, mortgage loan commitment, contract, or agreement of any kind to which the authority is a party, subject to any agreement with bondholders;

(5) Insure or guarantee mortgage loans made by federally or state chartered banks or savings and loan associations or other mortgage lenders approved by the authority to eligible housing sponsors upon such terms and conditions as the authority deems necessary, including without limitation the maximum amount which may be insured or guaranteed, maximum interest rates, down payment requirements, refinancing terms, insurance or guaranty premium requirements, and remedies on default or foreclosure;

(6) Procure insurance against any loss in connection with the authority's property and other assets, including mortgages and mortgage loans, in such amounts and from such insurers as the authority deems desirable;

(7) Make and undertake to make any and all contracts and agreements, including the payment of fees, with mortgage bankers and other financial institutions in this state for assistance rendered the authority in the location of eligible mortgagees and other sponsors of housing developments;

(8) Make, undertake commitments to make, and participate in the making of mortgage loans, including without limitation federally insured mortgage loans and to make temporary mortgage loans and advances in anticipation of permanent mortgage loans to be made by the authority or other mortgage lenders to housing sponsors; and

(9) Make, undertake commitments to make, and participate in the making of mortgage loans to persons who may purchase residential housing, including without limitation persons and families who are eligible or potentially eligible for federally insured mortgaged loans or federal mortgage loans. The loans shall be made only after a determination by the authority that mortgage loans are not otherwise available, wholly or in part, from private lenders upon reasonably equivalent terms and conditions. However, such determination does not require that persons or families receiving such loans have been refused a loan by a private mortgage lender.Source: SL 1973, ch 180, § 12 (15); SDCL Supp, § 28-19-93; SL 2012, ch 78, § 63; SL 2014, ch 44, § 4.