(1) As used in this section:

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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]

[1999 c.400 2,3; renumbered 646A.800 in 2013]

[Repealed by 1953 c.391 § 2]

[1999 c.875 § 2; renumbered 646A.803 in 2013]