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Insurance of mortgaged property.
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124.—(1) Any insurance which a mortgage lender may require a borrower to effect and keep effected on property mortgaged to the lender may be effected by the borrower with any insurer and through any intermediary.
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(2) When the mortgage lender requires a borrower to effect such insurance for the first time as respects a mortgaged property, he shall, at the same time, notify him in writing that the insurance may be so effected and of the nature and extent of the required insurance.
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(3) A mortgage lender shall not impose a requirement in regard to the nature and extent of insurance on mortgaged property which differentiates as between insurance effected through the agency of the mortgage lender and insurance otherwise effected.
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(4) A mortgage lender shall not impose a condition on a borrower in relation to insurance on mortgaged property which would require the borrower to pay a fee to the mortgage lender or to incur a cost which, in either case, would not be paid or incurred by a borrower effecting insurance through the agency of the mortgage lender.
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