Section 523C.17. Lending institutions, service companies, and insurance companies.

  A bank, savings association, insurance company, or other lending institution shall not require the purchase of a residential service contract as a condition of a loan. A service company or an insurer, either directly or indirectly, as a part of any real property transaction in which a residential service contract will be issued, purchased, or acquired, shall not require that a residential service contract be issued, purchased, or acquired in conjunction with or as a condition precedent to the issuance, purchase, or acquisition, by any person, of a policy of insurance. A lending institution shall not sell a residential service contract to a borrower unless the borrower signs an affidavit acknowledging that the purchase is not required. Violation of this section is punishable as provided in section 523C.13.

83 Acts, ch 87, §18

; 93 Acts, ch 60, §10

; 2012 Acts, ch 1017, §102