Effective - 08 Jul 2009
443.869. Powers and duties of director — rulemaking authority. — 1. The functions, powers and duties of the director shall include the following:
(1) To issue or refuse to issue any license as provided in sections 443.701 to 443.893;
(2) To revoke or suspend for cause any license issued pursuant to sections 443.701 to 443.893;
(3) To keep records of all licenses issued pursuant to sections 443.701 to 443.893;
(4) To receive, consider, investigate and act upon complaints made by any person in connection with any residential mortgage loan broker or mortgage loan originator in this state;
(5) To consider and act upon any recommendations from the residential mortgage board;
(6) To prescribe the forms for and receive:
(a) Applications for licenses; and
(b) All reports and all books and records required to be made by any residential mortgage loan broker pursuant to the provisions of sections 443.701 to 443.893, including annual audited financial statements;
(7) To adopt rules necessary and proper for the administration of sections 443.701 to 443.893;
(8) To subpoena documents and witnesses and compel their attendance and production, to administer oaths and to require the production of any books, papers or other material relevant to any inquiry authorized by sections 443.701 to 443.893;
(9) To require information with regard to any applicant as the director may deem desirable, with due regard to the paramount interests of the public, about the experience, background, honesty, truthfulness, integrity and competency of the applicant concerning financial transactions involving primary or subordinate mortgage financing and where the applicant is a person other than an individual, as to the honesty, truthfulness, integrity and competency of any officer or director of the corporation, association or other person or the members of a partnership;
(10) To examine the books and records of every residential mortgage loan broker at intervals as provided by sections 443.701 to 443.893 and the rules promulgated thereunder;
(11) To enforce the provisions of sections 443.701 to 443.893;
(12) To levy fees and charges for services performed in administering the provisions of sections 443.701 to 443.893. The aggregate of all fees collected by the director shall be deposited promptly after receipt and accompanied by a detailed statement of such receipts in the residential mortgage licensing fund; provided that fees may also be collected under the requirements of the NMLSR;
(13) To appoint a staff which may include an executive director, examiners, supervisors, experts, special assistants and any necessary support staff as needed to effectively and efficiently administer the provisions of sections 443.701 to 443.893;
(14) To conduct hearings for such purposes as the director deems appropriate; and
(15) To enter into agreements or contracts with authorized representatives of the NMLSR as appropriate to implement the NMLSR in Missouri.
2. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028. This section and chapter 536 are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2001, shall be invalid and void.
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(L. 1994 S.B. 718 § 25, A.L. 1995 H.B. 63, et al., A.L. 2001 S.B. 538, A.L. 2009 H.B. 382)
Effective 7-08-09
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property
Chapter 443 - Mortgages, Deeds of Trust and Mortgage Brokers
Section 443.005 - Security instrument defined.
Section 443.020 - Claim of such extension barred, when.
Section 443.030 - Prior acknowledgment of deed of trust deemed valid.
Section 443.060 - Acknowledgment of satisfaction and release, how made.
Section 443.070 - Affidavit required with deed of release, when — penalty for failure.
Section 443.090 - Part of property may be released, how.
Section 443.120 - Penalty for making false affidavit.
Section 443.130 - Liability for failing to satisfy — demand by certified mail required.
Section 443.140 - Attorney in fact may enter satisfaction.
Section 443.150 - Acknowledgment and satisfaction — how made by a corporation.
Section 443.160 - Personal representative may satisfy and deliver deed or release.
Section 443.170 - Penalty for failing to acknowledge satisfaction and deliver deed of release.
Section 443.180 - Sections 443.160 and 443.170 construed.
Section 443.185 - Releases of mortgages or deeds of trust defective — deemed valid, when.
Section 443.190 - Petition to foreclose, where filed.
Section 443.200 - Petition, where filed.
Section 443.210 - Proceedings to be as in civil actions.
Section 443.220 - Who may be made parties.
Section 443.230 - Judgment on constructive notice.
Section 443.240 - Judgment on personal service.
Section 443.250 - Proceedings where mortgagee, secured party, mortgagor or debtor dies.
Section 443.260 - Judgment when personal representative is party defendant.
Section 443.270 - Execution to be a special fieri facias.
Section 443.280 - Title which purchaser acquires.
Section 443.290 - Mortgages and security agreements with power of sale.
Section 443.300 - Death of debtor, foreclosure stayed.
Section 443.310 - Sales, where made — number of days' notice.
Section 443.320 - Notice, contents — how published.
Section 443.330 - Trustee failing to execute trust, parties interested may proceed, how.
Section 443.355 - Continuance of sale by trustee without readvertisement, manner — restrictions.
Section 443.360 - Compensation of trustees under trust deeds.
Section 443.370 - Penalty for overcharging.
Section 443.380 - Recitals in deed prima facie evidence.
Section 443.400 - Redemption before sale.
Section 443.410 - Foreclosures by trustee's sale — how made — redemption.
Section 443.415 - Mortgage may be insured for certain buyers, amount, requirements.
Section 443.420 - Notice of redemption — how given, rights.
Section 443.430 - Motion for approval of bond for redemption — hearing — receiver — additional bond.
Section 443.440 - Certificate of sale — upon failure to redeem, deed to be executed.
Section 443.453 - Financial institutions to pay property tax, how.
Section 443.454 - Enforcement and servicing of real estate loans, federal and state law preemption.
Section 443.701 - Citation of law.
Section 443.703 - Definitions.
Section 443.706 - Licensure required, when — effective date — exemptions.
Section 443.707 - Loan processors and underwriters, license required.
Section 443.709 - Rulemaking authority — expedited review and licensing procedures permitted, when.
Section 443.713 - Findings required for licensure.
Section 443.717 - Prelicensing education requirements.
Section 443.719 - Written test required, test measures — minimum competency requirements.
Section 443.721 - Renewal of licensure, minimum standards.
Section 443.723 - Continuing education requirements.
Section 443.725 - Duties of director — rule requirements authorized.
Section 443.727 - Challenge of information in NMLSR.
Section 443.729 - Supervision and enforcement — civil penalty.
Section 443.731 - Surety bond requirements.
Section 443.733 - Supervisory information sharing — confidentiality requirements.
Section 443.735 - Investigations and examinations, authority of director.
Section 443.739 - Reports of condition required.
Section 443.741 - Violations, director required to report.
Section 443.745 - Unique identifier to be shown on applications, solicitations, or advertisements.
Section 443.747 - Severability clause — rulemaking authority.
Section 443.805 - License required to broker residential mortgage.
Section 443.807 - Director, power to request injunction, when.
Section 443.809 - Examination, powers of director to inspect records of licensed persons.
Section 443.810 - Penalty for violations.
Section 443.823 - Licenses to be issued in duplicate, effective when.
Section 443.825 - Application content, oath and form — fingerprinting, when.
Section 443.830 - License refused — grounds.
Section 443.841 - License to be displayed.
Section 443.849 - Bonding requirements.
Section 443.855 - Advertising of mortgage loans, rulemaking authority.
Section 443.863 - Unlawful discrimination for refusal to loan or vary terms of the loan.
Section 443.865 - Escrow accounts, placement by brokers — authority for rules.
Section 443.867 - Disclosure statement required of brokers, content — fee — compensation.
Section 443.869 - Powers and duties of director — rulemaking authority.
Section 443.875 - Bond may be required, conditioned on compliance with subpoena, when.
Section 443.877 - Writ of attachment authorized on failure to comply with subpoena.
Section 443.879 - Reports required, failure to comply, penalty.
Section 443.881 - Suspension or revocation of license, grounds — procedure, penalties.
Section 443.885 - Report to be filed with director annually, contents.
Section 443.887 - General rulemaking powers of director.
Section 443.893 - Receiver or conservator to be appointed by court, when — attorney general's duty.
Section 443.901 - Reverse mortgage act — definitions.
Section 443.903 - Reverse mortgage regulations.
Section 443.906 - Reverse mortgage may be made regardless of certain other transactions.
Section 443.909 - Treatment of payments for certain purposes.
Section 443.912 - Statement regarding counseling services on reverse mortgages.
Section 443.930 - Prohibited acts — constitutes mortgage fraud — no private right of action created.
Section 443.1001 - Citation of law.
Section 443.1003 - Definitions.
Section 443.1006 - Annual reporting, forms — rulemaking authority.
Section 443.1007 - Financial institutions, actions not responsible or liable for.