(1) As used in this section:
(a) “Buyer” means a person who buys or agrees to buy a manufactured dwelling from a manufactured dwelling dealer.
(b) “Cash sale price” means the price for which a manufactured dwelling dealer would sell to a buyer, and the buyer would buy from a dealer, a manufactured dwelling that is covered by a purchase agreement, if the sale were a sale for cash instead of a retail installment sale.
(c) “Manufactured dwelling” has the meaning given that term in ORS 446.003.
(d) “Manufactured dwelling dealer” means a person licensed under ORS 446.691 or 446.696 or a temporary manufactured structure dealer licensee under ORS 446.701.
(e) “Retail installment sale” has the meaning given that term in ORS 83.510.
(2) A manufactured dwelling dealer engages in an unlawful practice when, in a sale of a manufactured dwelling, the dealer does any of the following:
(a) Misrepresents to a buyer that, as a condition of financing, the buyer must purchase:
(A) Credit life insurance;
(B) Credit disability insurance;
(C) Credit unemployment insurance;
(D) Credit property insurance;
(E) Health insurance;
(F) Life insurance; or
(G) An extended warranty.
(b) In close connection with the sale, misrepresents to a lender:
(A) The cash sale price;
(B) The amount of the buyer’s down payment; or
(C) The buyer’s credit or employment history. [2001 c.917 §1; 2003 c.655 §82]
Note: Sections 2 and 14, chapter 658, Oregon Laws 2003, provide:
Sec. 2. (1) As used in this section, “facility,” “floating home,” “landlord,” “manufactured dwelling” and “tenant” have the meanings given those terms in ORS 90.100.
(2) A facility landlord engages in an unlawful trade practice when the landlord violates ORS 90.680 (6) in a sale of a manufactured dwelling or floating home by a tenant to a prospective purchaser who desires to leave the dwelling or home on the rented space and become a tenant.
(3) Notwithstanding ORS 646.638, only a prosecuting attorney may bring an action under ORS 646.605 to 646.652 for a violation described in this section. [2003 c.658 §2]
Sec. 14. Section 2, chapter 658, Oregon Laws 2003, is repealed January 2, 2012. [2003 c.658 §14; 2007 c.906 §42]
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