(2) Except as provided in ORS 86A.095 to 86A.198, nothing in subsection (1) of this section grants the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services the authority to regulate the servicing or collection of a mortgage banking loan or mortgage loan by a mortgage banker or mortgage broker.
(3) As used in this section:
(a) "Mortgage banker" has the meaning given that term in ORS 86A.100 (3)(a) but also includes a person exempted from the definition of mortgage banker in ORS 86A.100 (3)(b).
(b) "Mortgage banking loan" has the meaning given that term in ORS 86A.100.
(c) "Mortgage broker" has the meaning given that term in ORS 86A.100.
(d) "Mortgage loan" has the meaning given that term in ORS 86A.100.
(e) "Service or collect any mortgage banking loan or mortgage loan" includes but is not limited to:
(A) Holding documents or written instruments and receiving and disbursing payments according to the instructions of the parties to the documents or written instruments;
(B) Collecting or remitting, or having the right or obligation to collect or remit, for a lender, note owner, note holder or other holder of an interest in a note or for a mortgage banker’s or mortgage broker’s own account, payments, interest, principal and trust items, including but not limited to hazard insurance and taxes, on a mortgage banking loan or mortgage loan in accordance with the terms of the loan, and includes loan payment follow-up, delinquency loan follow-up, loan analysis and notifications to the borrower that are necessary to enable the borrower to keep the loan current and in good standing; and
(C) Bringing and maintaining a suit or action to collect amounts owed on a mortgage banking loan or mortgage loan, including but not limited to exercising contractual, statutory or common law remedies such as injunction, specific performance, judicial or nonjudicial foreclosure or receivership. [Formerly 59.962]
Note: 86A.175 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 86A or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.