Sec. 5. (a) If the payment in full of two (2) or more pending valid claims that have been filed by aggrieved persons against a single licensee would exceed the fifty thousand dollar ($50,000) limit set forth in section 4 of this chapter, the fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) shall be distributed among the aggrieved persons in the ratio that their respective claims bear to the aggregate of all valid claims or in any other manner that the commission may determine equitable. This money shall be distributed among the persons entitled to share in it without regard to the order of priority in which their respective judgments have been obtained or their claims have been filed.
(b) The commission shall consider pending applications filed by all claimants and prospective claimants against one (1) licensee jointly to the end that the respective rights of all the claimants to the commission may be equitably adjudicated and settled.
(c) On June 30 and December 31 of each year, the real estate commission shall identify each claim that the commission orders to be paid during the six (6) month period that ended on that day. The commission shall pay the part of each claim that is so identified within fifteen (15) days after the end of the six (6) month period in which the claim is ordered paid. However, if the balance in the fund is insufficient to pay the full payable amount of each claim that is ordered to be paid during a six (6) month period, the commission shall pay a prorated portion of each claim that is ordered to be paid during the period. Any part of the payable amount of a claim left unpaid due to the prorating of payments under this subsection must be paid (subject to the fifty thousand dollar ($50,000) limit described in section 4 of this chapter) before the payment of claims ordered to be paid during the following six (6) month period.
As added by P.L.255-1987, SEC.6. Amended by P.L.134-2013, SEC.18.
Structure Indiana Code
Title 25. Professions and Occupations
Article 34.1. Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons
Chapter 7. Real Estate Recovery Fund
25-34.1-7-1. Establishment of Fund; Administration; Investments
25-34.1-7-2. Surcharge; Formula; Assessment; Application of Section
25-34.1-7-2.1. Reversion of Excess Funds
25-34.1-7-3. Interest on Investments; Payment of Expenses
25-34.1-7-6. Agent for Service of Process
25-34.1-7-7. Limitation of Actions; Notice of Commencement of Action
25-34.1-7-8. Commission as Defendant; Hearings; Orders Directing Payment
25-34.1-7-9. Payment of Claims
25-34.1-7-10. Suspension of Judgment Debtor's License; Repayment of Fund; Interest