(1) A person may not personally or otherwise offer, promise, allow, give, set off, pay or receive, directly or indirectly, any rebate of or rebate of part of the premium payable on an insurance policy or the insurance producer’s commission on an insurance policy, or earnings, profit, dividends or other benefit founded, arising, accruing or to accrue on or from the policy, or any other valuable consideration or inducement to or for insurance on any domestic risk, which is not specified in the policy.

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(2) A premium discount or rebate is not prohibited by this section if the discount or rebate is:

(a) Offered in connection with a program of health promotion or disease prevention, as described in 42 U.S.C. §§ 300gg-4;

(b) Paid for participation in a program to promote healthy behaviors under ORS § 743.824; or

(c) Offered in connection with a wellness program defined by the Department of Consumer and Business Services by rule.

(3) This section does not prohibit giving, as a form of advertising, as a promotional program or as promotional material, a prize, goods, wares, merchandise, articles or property with an aggregate value of not more than $100 in a calendar year to a person other than a person to whom an insurer issues health insurance, as defined in ORS § 731.162, or a health benefit plan, as defined in ORS § 743B.005. [1967 c.359 § 571; 2003 c.364 § 135; 2013 c.681 § 35a; 2017 c.327 § 1]

[Amended by 1961 c.256 § 4; repealed by 1967 c.359 § 704]