[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 42CFR57.202]

[Page 258-259]
 
                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                                SERVICES
 
PART 57--GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF TEACHING FACILITIES, EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENTS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND STUDENT LOANS--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart C--Health Professions Student Loans
 
Sec. 57.202  Definitions.

    As used in this subpart:
    Act means the Public Health Service Act, as amended.
    Date upon which a student ceases to be a full-time student means the 
first day of the month which is nearest to the date upon which an 
individual ceases to be a full-time student as defined in this section.
    Default means the failure of a borrower of a loan made under this 
subpart to make an installment payment when due, or comply with any 
other term of the promissory note for such loan, except that a loan made 
under this subpart shall not be considered to be in default if the loan 
is discharged in bankruptcy, the borrower's repayment schedule has been 
renegotiated and the borrower is complying with the renegotiated 
schedule, or the loan is in forbearance.
    Federal capital loan means a loan made by the Secretary to a school 
under section 744(a) of the Act, as in effect prior to October 1, 1977, 
the proceeds of which are to be returned to the Secretary.
    Full-time student means a student who is enrolled in a health 
professions school and pursuing a course of study which is a full-time 
academic workload, as determined by the school, leading to a degree 
specified in section 722(b) of the Act.
    Grace period means the period of 1 year beginning on the date upon 
which a student ceases to be a full-time student at a school of 
medicine, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, podiatric medicine, 
optometry, or veterinary medicine.
    Health professions school or school, for purposes of this subpart, 
means a public or private nonprofit school of medicine, school of 
dentistry, school of osteopathic medicine, school of pharmacy, school of 
podiatric medicine, school of optometry, or school of veterinary 
medicine as defined in section 799(1)(A) of the Act.
    Health professions student loan means the amount of money advanced 
to a student by a school from a health professions student loan fund 
under a properly executed promissory note.
    Institutional capital contribution means the money provided by a 
school, in an amount not less than one-ninth of the federal capital 
contribution, and deposited in a health professions student loan fund.
    National of the United States means: (1) A citizen of the United 
States, or (2) a person who, though not a citizen of the United States, 
owes permanent allegiance to the United States, as defined in the 
Immigration and Nationality Act, at 8 U.S.C. section 1101(a)(22).
    School year means the traditional approximately 9-month September to 
June annual session. For the purpose of computing school year 
equivalents for students who, during a 12-month period, attend for a 
longer period than the traditional school year, the school year will be 
considered to be 9 months in length.
    Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services and any

[[Page 259]]

other officer or employee of the Department of Health and Human Services 
to whom the authority involved has been delegated.
    State means, in addition to the several States, the District of 
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the 
Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the 
Federated States of Micronesia.

[44 FR 29055, May 18, 1979, as amended at 52 FR 20987, June 3, 1987; 53 
FR 46549, Nov. 17, 1988; 56 FR 19293, Apr. 26, 1991; 56 FR 25446, June 
4, 1991; 61 FR 6123, Feb. 16, 1996]