A person who is required to be licensed under this chapter and a person who is licensed under Alaska Stat. Chapter 06.20 may not, in connection with a mortgage loan transaction,

(1) misrepresent or conceal a material fact or make a false promise likely to influence, persuade, or induce an applicant for a mortgage loan or a borrower to enter into a mortgage loan transaction;
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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 06.60.340

  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • borrower: means an individual who receives a mortgage loan. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. Source: OCC
  • department: means the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • knowingly: has the meaning given in Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
  • license: means a license issued under this chapter. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
  • licensee: means a person who holds a license issued under this chapter. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. Source: OCC
  • mortgage loan: means a residential mortgage loan. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
  • person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • property: includes real and personal property. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • registry: means the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
  • state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
(2) pursue a course of misrepresentation through an agent;
(3) directly or indirectly employ any scheme, device, or artifice to defraud or mislead a borrower or lender or to defraud a person;
(4) engage in any unfair or deceptive act or practice toward any person;
(5) obtain property by fraud or misrepresentation;
(6) solicit or enter into a contract with a borrower that provides, in substance, that the person subject to this chapter may earn a fee or commission through using the person’s best efforts to obtain a loan, even though a loan is not actually obtained for the borrower;
(7) solicit, advertise, or enter into a contract for specific interest rates, points, or other financing terms unless the terms are actually available at the time of soliciting, advertising, or contracting;
(8) conduct a business covered by this chapter without holding a valid license as required under this chapter, or assist a person in the conduct of business under this chapter without a valid license as required under this chapter;
(9) fail to make disclosures as required by this chapter or by another applicable state or federal statute, including regulations adopted under the statute;
(10) fail to comply with this chapter or regulations adopted under this chapter or fail to comply with another state or federal statute, including regulations adopted under the statute, applicable to a business authorized or conducted under this chapter;
(11) make, in any manner, false or deceptive statements or representations, including statements or representations about rates, points, or other financing terms or conditions, or engage in bait and switch advertising;
(12) negligently make a false statement or knowingly omit a material fact in connection with information or reports filed with the department or the registry or in connection with an investigation conducted by the department;
(13) make a payment, threat, or promise, directly or indirectly, to a person for the purposes of influencing the independent judgment of the person in connection with a mortgage loan, or make a payment, threat, or promise, directly or indirectly, to an appraiser of a property, for the purpose of influencing the independent judgment of the appraiser with respect to the value of the property;
(14) collect, charge, attempt to collect, attempt to charge, or use or propose an agreement purporting to collect or charge a fee prohibited by this chapter;
(15) cause or require a borrower to obtain property insurance coverage in an amount that exceeds the replacement cost, as established by the property insurer, of the improvements;
(16) improperly refuse to issue a satisfaction of a mortgage loan;
(17) fail to account for or deliver to a person money, a document, or another thing of value obtained in connection with a mortgage loan, including money provided for a real estate appraisal or a credit report, if the person is not entitled to retain the money under the circumstances;
(18) pay, receive, or collect, in whole or in part, a commission, fee, or other compensation for brokering a mortgage loan in violation of this chapter, including a mortgage loan brokered by an unlicensed person;
(19) fail to disburse money in accordance with a written commitment or agreement to make a mortgage loan;
(20) engage in a transaction, practice, or course of business that is not engaged in by the person in good faith or fair dealing or that constitutes a fraud on a person in connection with the brokering, making, purchase, or sale of a mortgage loan;
(21) influence or attempt to influence, through coercion, extortion, or bribery, the development, reporting, result, or review of a real estate appraisal sought in connection with a mortgage loan; this paragraph does not prohibit a person from asking an appraiser to

(A) consider additional appropriate property information;
(B) provide further detail, substantiation, or explanation for the appraiser’s value determination; or
(C) correct errors in the appraisal report;
(22) make a false or misleading statement in a mortgage loan commitment or prequalification letter, or omit material information necessary to make the statements made not misleading, if the person knew or reasonably should have known the statement was false or misleading or the omission consisted of material information necessary to make the statements made not misleading;
(23) engage in a practice or course of business in which the ultimate rates, terms, or costs of mortgage loans are materially worse for the borrower than they are represented to be in the first good faith estimates the person provides to the borrower, unless

(A) the person’s generally published or advertised rates, terms, or costs, if any, change for a borrower’s loan program; or
(B) new or changed information from the borrower makes it necessary to change the loan program offered to the borrower;
(24) represent that the person has a license, registration, title, certification, sponsorship, approval, status, affiliation, or connection that the person does not have;
(25) engage in unfair, deceptive, or fraudulent advertising; or
(26) authorize, direct, plan, or aid in the publishing, distribution, or circulation of a materially false statement or a material misrepresentation concerning the licensee‘s business or concerning mortgage loans originated in the course of the licensee’s business in this or another state.
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