Unlawful practice by manufactured dwelling dealer.

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(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]


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