KRS 40.650: Veterans' Personal Loan Program.

(1) As used in this section:

(a) "Department" means the Department of Veterans' Affairs; and

(b) "Veteran" means a person who served in the active Armed Forces of the

United States, including the Coast Guard of the United States, and was

released, separated, discharged, or retired therefr om under honorable or

general conditions.

(2) A veterans' personal loan program trust fund is established to oversee and

administer funds under the Veterans' Personal Loan Program.

(3) (a) To be eligible for a loan under the Veterans' Personal Loan Program , an

applicant shall be a resident of, and living in, the Commonwealth on the date

of the application.

(b) 1. As used in this paragraph, "qualified" means having met loan conditions

established by an administrative regulation promulgated by the

department. However, the term of a loan shall not exceed ten (10) years.

2. The department shall cause the veterans' personal loan program trust

fund to lend a qualified veteran or deceased veteran's unremarried

spouse not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or a lesser amount

established by an administrative regulation promulgated by the

department, for:

a. The purchase of a home, business, or business property;

b. The education of the loan applicant or the loan applicant's spouse;

c. The payment of family medical or funeral expenses; or

d. The consolidation of debt.

3. The department shall cause the veterans' personal loan trust fund to lend

a qualified child of a veteran or parent or guardian of that child not more

than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or a lesser amount established by an

administrative regulation promulgated by the department, for the

education of that child, who is under the age of twenty -seven (27), at a

university, junior college, vocational training institute, or n onpublic

school admitting children in preschool through grade twelve (12).

(c) No person shall receive a loan under this section in an amount that, when

added to the balance of the person's existing loan or loans under this section,

would result in a total indebtedness to the veterans' personal loan program

trust fund of more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or a lesser amount

established by an administrative regulation promulgated by the department.

(4) (a) The veterans' personal loan program trust fund shall:

1. Execute necessary instruments; and

2. Collect principal and interest.

(b) The veterans' personal loan program trust fund may:

1. Compromise indebtedness;

2. Sue and be sued;

3. Post bonds;

4. Write off indebtedness that it considers uncollectible;

5. Exercise the rights of an owner and mortgagee if a loan provided under

this section is secured by a real estate mortgage;

6. Charge to a loan applicant loan expenses incurred under this section; and

7. a. Receive state appropriations, gifts, grants, federal funds, and any

other funds both public and private.

b. Funds received, which are not necessary for the operation of the

veterans' personal loan program trust fund, shall remain with the

department to finance other department operations.

(5) The department shall promulgate administrative regulations necessary to carry out

the provisions of this section.