[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 34, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 34CFR682.212]

[Page 690-691]
 
                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION
 
                         DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 
PART 682--FEDERAL FAMILY EDUCATION LOAN (FFEL) PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart B--General Provisions
 
Sec. 682.212  Prohibited transactions.

    (a) No points, premiums, payments, or additional interest of any 
kind may be paid or otherwise extended to any eligible lender or other 
party in order to--
    (1) Secure funds for making loans; or
    (2) Induce a lender to make loans to either the students or the 
parents of students of a particular school or particular category of 
students or their parents.

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    (b) The following are examples of transactions that, if entered into 
for the purposes described in paragraph (a) of this section, are 
prohibited:
    (1) Cash payments by or on behalf of a school made to a lender or 
other party.
    (2) The maintaining of a compensating balance by or on behalf of a 
school with a lender.
    (3) Payments by or on behalf of a school to a lender of servicing 
costs on loans that the school does not own.
    (4) Payments by or on behalf of a school to a lender of unreasonably 
high servicing costs on loans that the school does own.
    (5) Purchase by or on behalf of a school of stock of the lender.
    (6) Payments ostensibly made for other purposes.
    (c) Except when purchased by the Student Loan Marketing Association, 
an agency of any State functioning as a secondary market or in any other 
circumstances approved by the Secretary, notes, or any interest in 
notes, may not be sold or otherwise transferred at discount if the 
underlying loans were made--
    (1) By a school; or
    (2) To students or parents of students attending a school by a 
lender having common ownership with that school.
    (d) Except to secure a loan from the Student Loan Marketing 
Association or an agency of a State functioning as a secondary market or 
in other circumstances approved by the Secretary, a school or lender 
(with respect to a loan made to a student, or a parent of a student, 
attending a school having common ownership with that lender), may not 
use a loan made under the FFEL programs as collateral for any loan 
bearing aggregate interest and other charges in excess of the sum of the 
interest rate applicable to the loan plus the rate of the most recently 
prescribed special allowance under Sec. 682.302.
    (e) The prohibitions described in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), and (d) 
of this section apply to any school, lender, or other party that would 
participate in a proscribed transaction.
    (f) This section does not preclude a buyer of loans made by a school 
from obtaining from the loan seller a warranty that--
    (1) Covers future reductions by the Secretary or a guaranty agency 
in computing the amount of loss payable on default claims filed on the 
loans, if the reductions are attributable to an act, or failure to act, 
on the part of the seller or previous holder; and
    (2) Does not cover matters for which a purchaser is charged with 
responsibility under this part, such as due diligence in collecting 
loans.
    (g) Section 490(c) of the Act provides that any person who knowingly 
and willfully makes an unlawful payment to an eligible lender as an 
inducement to make, or to acquire by assignment, a FFEL loan shall, upon 
conviction thereof, be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not 
more than one year, or both.

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1077, 1078, 1078-1, 1078-2, 1078-3, 1082, 1097)