ORS § 731.450

Current through 2024 Regular Session legislation
Section 731.450 - Unrelated business prohibited; exceptions; title insurer as escrow agent

Except as authorized by the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (P.L. 106-102), an insurer may not engage in any business except the making of insurance or a kind of business related to the insurance business. However, a foreign or alien insurer may engage, outside this state, in any business permitted by its articles of incorporation and the laws of the state of its domicile; and a title insurer also may engage in business as an escrow agent; provided, however, that a title insurer engaging in business as an escrow agent shall be subject to the provisions of ORS 696.505 to 696.590 in respect to its escrow activities.

ORS 731.450

1967 c.359 §97; 1971 c.398 §5; 1977 c.351 §13; 2001 c.377 §57