38:23B-8 - Application for loan;  time limit;  minor veterans eligible for loans

38:23B-8.  Application for loan;  time limit;  minor veterans eligible for loans
    A veteran, as defined herein, who has served in the active military or naval  service of the United States at any time after September sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and forty, and prior to December thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six, may apply to any bank for a loan under the  provisions of this act not later than June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred  and fifty-one.  A veteran, as defined herein, who has or shall have served in  the active military or naval service of the United States at any time after  June twenty-third, one thousand nine hundred and fifty, and prior to December  sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and fifty, or during a period of national  emergency as herein defined, may apply to any bank for a loan under the  provisions of this act not later than two years after his discharge or release  from such active service. Any veteran otherwise eligible for a loan pursuant  to the provisions of this act, who is under the age of twenty-one years, is  hereby empowered to enter into and contract for a loan or loans subject to the  provisions of this act;  provided, however, and notwithstanding any contrary  provisions of law, such veteran shall not void such contract because of his  age, nor shall such veteran hereafter interpose the defense that he is, or was  at the time he entered into such contract, a minor in any action or proceeding arising out of any loan pursuant to the provisions of this act.

     L.1944, c. 126, p. 346, s. 8.  Amended by L.1945, c. 185, p. 626, s. 3; L.1946, c. 121, p. 563, s. 6;  L.1950, c. 216, p. 540, s. 1;  L.1951, c. 89, p. 485, s. 2.