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Oklahoma mortgage advertising rules
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Regulating agency
Oklahoma Department of Consumer Credit
Oklahoma Department of Consumer Credit (Administrator of Consumer Credit). Not the Oklahoma State Banking Department. this is a common misattribution. Confirmed by the administrative code title: O.A.C. Title 160. Department of Consumer Credit, Chapter 55. Mortgage Brokers and Mortgage Loan Originators.
NMLS and license display: Conjunctive and disjunctive elements.
Governing statute and administrative code
- STATUTE. Oklahoma Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act, 59 O.S. §§ 2095.1 et seq. Key sections: § 2095.4 (Unique identifier required on documents), § 2095.18 (Specific violations), § 2095.19 (Fines).
- REGULATION. O.A.C. Title 160, Chapter 55 (Mortgage Brokers and Mortgage Loan Originators). Subchapters: 1 (General Provisions), 3 (Licensing), 5 (Advisory Committee [Revoked]), 7 (Records), 9 (Enforcement).
Two regimes? Oklahoma's consumer-credit regime is the Uniform Consumer Credit Code (14A O.S.), also administered by the Department of Consumer Credit. not examined here. For residential mortgage, the SAFE Act (59 O.S. § 2095.x) is the operative regime and covers mortgage brokers, mortgage lenders and MLOs.
License and NMLS ID display
VerifiedSTATUTE. 59 O.S. § 2095.4, "Unique identifier required on documents" (full text, verified verbatim against the official Oklahoma Senate statute publication):
"The unique identifier of any licensed mortgage broker, mortgage lender or licensed mortgage loan originator shall be clearly shown on all residential mortgage loan application forms, solicitations or advertisements, including business cards or websites, and any other documents as established by rule."
Conjunctive or disjunctive: Conjunctive as to media, single-element as to content. The identifier must appear on all enumerated media; only the unique identifier is required. No company name, state license number, address, or NMLS Consumer Access link is mandated. Note the requirement attaches to each of the three licensee types named. so an ad naming both the company and an individual originator implicates both identifiers.
Prohibited claims
Verified- § 2095.18(9). prohibited to "Make, in any manner, any false or deceptive statement or representation, including, with regard to the rates, points, or other financing terms or conditions for a residential mortgage loan or engage in bait and switch advertising." *Attaches to: rates, points, financing terms. and bait-and-switch as a named practice.*
- § 2095.18(5). see §5 below.
- The section also prohibits soliciting or contracting to earn a fee through "best efforts" where no loan is actually obtained or modified.
No express Oklahoma ban on "lowest," "best," "cheapest," "guaranteed," "pre-approved," "free," "no cost," or "government" was found, and no superlative prohibition. Searched the full SAFE Act text (59 O.S. §§ 2095.1–2095.26) for every occurrence of "advertis"; the only advertising-relevant hits are § 2095.4, § 2095.18(5), § 2095.18(9), and the loan-processor/underwriter holding-out prohibition in the § 2095.2 definitions.
Rate advertising
Verified"Solicit, advertise or enter into a contract for specific interest rates, points or other financing terms unless the terms are actually available at the time of soliciting, advertising or contracting"
*Attaches to: specific interest rates, points, and other financing terms.* Actual-availability standard, as in North Dakota and Rhode Island.
No Oklahoma-specific APR, rate-lock, or "rates subject to change" advertising requirement beyond federal Reg Z was located.
Ad filing, prior approval, retention
None foundNo filing or prior approval requirement found. Advertising retention: NOT VERIFIED. O.A.C. 160:55 contains a Subchapter 7. Records (§ 160:55-7-1), but the text of that rule could not be retrieved (the Cornell LII URL for it did not resolve, and the official Oklahoma administrative rules site was not reachable in this session). Whether Oklahoma requires retention of advertising samples, and for how long, is unresolved.
Social media and character-limited media
None foundNOT VERIFIED. "Websites" is named in § 2095.4. No Oklahoma guidance addressing social media, texting, or abbreviated disclosures for character-limited media was located.
Anything unusual
- Agency misattribution risk. Mortgage advertising in Oklahoma is policed by the Department of Consumer Credit, not the Banking Department. Licensing correspondence, complaints and examination authority all run through Consumer Credit.
- Oklahoma has no advertising regulation at all. O.A.C. 160:55 was enumerated at the subchapter level and contains no advertising subchapter (General Provisions / Licensing / Advisory Committee [Revoked] / Records / Enforcement). All Oklahoma mortgage advertising law is statutory and is essentially three sentences.
- The penalty structure is inverted relative to peers. see §9. Oklahoma's statutory fine is *low* ($1,000) but is a criminal misdemeanor conviction, not a civil money penalty, which creates a different kind of exposure (and a different disclosure obligation on future NMLS filings) than a larger civil fine elsewhere.
Penalties
VerifiedSTATUTE. 59 O.S. § 2095.19(A): an unlicensed person engaging in the business, "or who willingly and knowingly violates any provision of the Oklahoma Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor which shall be punishable by a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each violation. Each violation shall be a separate offense under this section."
§ 2095.19(B): the Administrator of Consumer Credit, the Attorney General, or a district attorney may seek injunctive relief in district court, "without bond."
Note the criminal fine requires willful and knowing violation. Administrative penalty authority also exists at § 2095.17 (Penalties authorized. Cease and desist orders), the text of which was not retrieved. civil administrative penalty amounts: NOT VERIFIED.
Sources
- https://oksenate.gov/sites/default/files/2019-12/os59.pdfofficial 59 O.S. § 2095.4 and §§ 2095.18–2095.19, full statutory text (OFFICIAL — Oklahoma State Senate statute publication, Title 59; § 2095.4 at internal p. 1233):
- https://law.justia.com/codes/oklahoma/title-59/section-59-2095-4/reproduction 59 O.S. § 2095.4 (**SECONDARY**, Justia — used first, then confirmed verbatim against the official Senate publication above):
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/oklahoma/title-160/chapter-55reproduction O.A.C. Title 160, Chapter 55 subchapter list (**SECONDARY**, Cornell LII):