13 C.F.R. § 123.404 When is your business ineligible to apply for a pre-disaster mitigation loan?
Title 13 - Business Credit and Assistance
Your business is ineligible to apply for a pre-disaster mitigation loan if your business (including its affiliates) satisfies any of the following conditions: (a) Any of your business' principal owners is presently incarcerated, or on probation or parole following conviction of a serious criminal offense, or has been indicted for a felony or a crime of moral turpitude; (b) Your business' only interest in the business property is in the form of a security interest, mortgage, or deed of trust; (c) The building, which is the subject of the mitigation measure, was newly constructed or substantially improved on or after February 9, 1989, and (without significant business justification) is located seaward of mean high tide or entirely in or over water; (d) Your business is an agricultural enterprise. Agricultural enterprise means a business primarily engaged (see §121.107 of this chapter) in the production of food and fiber, ranching and raising of livestock, aquaculture and all other farming and agriculture-related industries. Sometimes a business is engaged in both agricultural and non-agricultural business activities. If the primary business activity of your business is not an agricultural enterprise, it may apply for a pre-disaster mitigation loan, but loan proceeds may not be used, directly or indirectly, for the benefit of the agricultural activities; (e) Your business is engaged in any illegal activity; (f) Your business is a government owned entity (except for a business owned or controlled by a Native American tribe); (g) Your business presents live performances of a prurient sexual nature or derives directly or indirectly more than de minimis gross revenue through the sale of products or services, or the presentation of any depictions or displays, of a prurient sexual nature; (h) Your business engages in lending, multi-level sales distribution, speculation, or investment (except for real estate investment with property held for commercial rental); (i) Your business is a non-profit or charitable concern; (j) Your business is a consumer or marketing cooperative; (k) Your business derives more than one-third of its gross annual revenue from legal gambling activities; (l) Your business is a loan packager that earns more than one-third of its gross annual revenue from packaging SBA loans; (m) Your business principally engages in teaching, instructing, counseling, or indoctrinating religion or religious beliefs, whether in a religious or secular setting; or (n) Your business is primarily engaged in political or lobbying activities.
Title 13: Business Credit and Assistance
PART 123—DISASTER LOAN PROGRAM
Subpart E—Pre-Disaster Mitigation Loans
§ 123.404 When is your business ineligible to apply for a pre-disaster mitigation loan?
