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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71049</law_id><section_number>6.2-329</section_number><catch_line>Loans insured or guaranteed by certain governmental agencies</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="6.2">Financial Institutions and Services</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">General Provisions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Interest and Usury</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="4">Loans Exempt From Limit on Contract Rate of Interest</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> No <span class="dictionary">person</span> shall, by way of defense or otherwise, avail himself of any of the provisions of this chapter or any other law relating to usury or any statutory or <span class="dictionary">case law</span> relating to compounding of interest to avoid or defeat the payment of any interest or any other sum which he has contracted to pay on any <span class="dictionary">loan</span>: <a id="paragraph-256161" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-329/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Insured by the Federal Housing Administration, pursuant to the provisions of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. &#xA7; 1701 et seq.); <a id="paragraph-256162" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-329/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Guaranteed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, pursuant to Title 38 of the United States Code; or <a id="paragraph-256163" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-329/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Insured or guaranteed by any similar federal governmental agency or organization, or made directly or indirectly by the Virginia Housing Development Authority pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 1.2 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Short title" href="/36-55.24/">36-55.24</a> et seq.) of Title 36. <a id="paragraph-256164" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-329/#A3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to prevent the recovery of such interest or any other sum from any <span class="dictionary">person</span> who has contracted to pay the same in connection with any <span class="dictionary">loan</span> described in this section. <a id="paragraph-256165" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-329/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1987, c. 622, &#xA7; 6.1-330.74; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
