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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="12-1206" title_number="12" title_name="Credit Regulations" subtitle_number="12" subtitle_name="Reverse Mortgage Loans Act">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, a lender or an arranger of financing may not require a borrower to purchase an annuity, a long–term care policy, or other financial or insurance product as a condition to obtaining a reverse mortgage loan.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A lender or an arranger of financing may require a borrower to purchase title insurance, hazard, flood, or other peril insurance, and any other financial or insurance product that is required for reverse mortgage loans insured under 12 U.S.C. § 1715z–20.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A lender or an arranger of financing may not refer a borrower to any person for the purchase of an annuity or any other financial or insurance product before the later of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The closing of the reverse mortgage loan; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The expiration of the borrower’s right to rescind the reverse mortgage loan agreement.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>This section does not prohibit a lender or an arranger of financing from offering to a borrower, or referring a borrower to a person for the purchase of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Title insurance;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Hazard, flood, or other peril insurance; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Other products that are customary under a reverse mortgage loan.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
