Sec. 3502.004.  AUTHORIZED REAL ESTATE SECURITY DEFINED.  (a)  In this chapter, "authorized real estate security" means:
(1)  a proprietary lease and a stock membership certificate issued to a tenant stockholder or resident member of a fee simple cooperative housing corporation as defined in Section 216, Internal Revenue Code of 1986; or
(2)  a mortgage, deed of trust, wraparound mortgage, or other instrument that constitutes a first lien or charge on real estate or is considered to be the equivalent of a first lien or charge on real estate by the Federal National Mortgage Association, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, the Federal Housing Finance Board, a successor of one of those entities, an agency of this state, or a federal agency, provided:
(A)  the improvement on the real estate is a building or buildings designed to be occupied as specified by Section 3502.003(1); and
(B)  the real estate loan is a type of loan that is:
(i)  authorized to be made by a bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or insurer that is supervised and regulated by a department of this state or a federal agency;
(ii)  authorized to be made by a mortgage banker that is an approved seller-servicer of the Federal National Mortgage Association, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, or a successor of one of those entities; or
(iii)  approved by the federal secretary of housing and urban development for participation in a mortgage insurance program.
(b)  The lien on real estate described by Subsection (a)(2) may be subject and subordinate to:
(1)  the lien of a public bond, assessment, or tax if there is not a delinquent installment, call, or payment of or under the bond, assessment, or tax;
(2)  an outstanding mineral, oil, or timber right, right-of-way, easement or right-of-way support, sewer right, building restriction, other restriction or covenant, or other condition or regulation of use; or
(3)  an outstanding lease on the real estate under which rents or profits are reserved to the owner.
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 727 (H.B. 2017), Sec. 3, eff. April 1, 2007.