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 Oklahoma Statutes (Last Updated: September 18, 2014)
 Title 59. PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

  § 59-2095.20. Oklahoma Mortgage Broker and Mortgage Loan Originator Recovery Fund - Reimbursement and payments.  

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  • A.  1.  There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund for the Commission on Consumer Credit to be designated the "Oklahoma Mortgage Broker and Mortgage Loan Originator Recovery Fund".  The fund shall consist of fees received by the Administrator of Consumer Credit as required by paragraph 6 of subsection M of Section 2095.6 of this title to be paid into the fund.

    2.  The revolving fund shall be a continuing fund not subject to fiscal year limitations and shall be under the administrative direction of the Administrator.  Monies accruing to the credit of this fund are hereby appropriated and may be budgeted and expended by the Commission, pursuant to rules promulgated by the Commission, for the purposes specified in subsection B of this section.  The provisions of this paragraph shall have retroactive and prospective application.

    3.  Expenditures from the fund shall be made upon warrants issued by the State Treasurer against claims filed as prescribed by law with the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services for approval and payment.

    B.  1.  Subject to the limitations of this subsection, monies in the fund shall be used to reimburse any entity or individual in an amount not to exceed Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) who has been adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to have suffered monetary damages by an entity or individual required to have a license under the Oklahoma Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act in any transaction or series of transactions for which a license is required under the Oklahoma Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act because of the acquisition of money or property by fraud, misrepresentation, deceit, false pretenses, artifice, trickery, or by any other act which would constitute a violation of the Oklahoma Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act.

    2.  Payments for claims based on judgments against any one person required to have a license under this act shall not exceed in the aggregate Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000.00).

    3.  Payments for claims may only be made for a cause of action which has accrued on or after November 1, 1997, and which has accrued not more than two (2) years prior to filing the action in district court.

Added by Laws 2009, c. 190, § 23, eff. July 1, 2009.  Amended by Laws 2012, c. 304, § 292.