2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 697 - Collection Agencies; Check-Cashing Businesses; Debt Management Service Providers
Section 697.031 - Registration procedure; bond or letter of credit; fees; procedures for out-of-state collection agencies; rules.


(b) The director, consistent with the requirements of ORS 697.005 to 697.095, may issue and renew registrations under this section by means of an agreement with the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System and may, by rule, conform the practices, procedures and information that the department uses to issue or renew a registration to the requirements of the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System.
(c) The department may require any information necessary to carry out a program under this subsection, including but not limited to:
(A) The name and address of the applicant or registrant.
(B) Any assumed names or business names the applicant or registrant uses.
(C) Names of persons who perform the solicitation or collection of claims or who perform the solicitation of the right to repossess or the repossession of collateral security for the applicant or registrant.
(D) Names of persons who are agents of the applicant or registrant for purposes of service of legal process.
(E) Fingerprints for any of the applicant’s executive officers, and officers and managers with supervisory responsibility over the applicant’s activities, with which the director may conduct a criminal records check that the director may process through the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System.
(2)(a) The director shall require any person who applies for registration as a collection agency, other than an out-of-state collection agency, to file with the director a bond or an irrevocable letter of credit in the sum of $10,000 executed by the applicant as obligor, together with one or more corporate sureties or financial institutions authorized to do business in this state. The bond or an irrevocable letter of credit must be executed to the State of Oregon and for the use of the state and of any person who may have a cause of action against the obligor of the bond or an irrevocable letter of credit under ORS 697.005 to 697.095. The bond or irrevocable letter of credit must be conditioned to require the applicant to faithfully conform to and abide by the provisions of ORS 697.005 to 697.095 and all rules the director adopts under ORS 697.005 to 697.095, and will pay to the state and to any such person any and all moneys that may become due or owing to the state or to such person from the obligor under and by virtue of the provisions of ORS 697.005 to 697.095.
(b) A person that obtains a judgment against a registrant for violating ORS 697.005 to 697.095 or a rule that the director adopts under ORS 697.005 to 697.095, or for other misconduct, may bring in a circuit court of this state an action against the bond or irrevocable letter of credit described in this subsection for any amount the person does not obtain by executing the judgment against the registrant.
(c) The bond or an irrevocable letter of credit required by this subsection must be continuously maintained in the amount required by this subsection. The aggregate liability of the surety under the bond for claims against the bond may not exceed the penal sum of the bond no matter how many years the bond is in force. An extension by continuation certificate, reinstatement, reissue or renewal of the bond does not increase the liability of the surety.
(3) The director may, in the program for registration established under this section:
(a) Require any filings with the department that the director determines are necessary to maintain current the information required for registration. Filings required under this subsection may include renewal of registration at reasonable intervals, filings within a reasonable time after changes in a collection agency or other filings the director determines are necessary. In requiring filings under this subsection, the director shall attempt to minimize burdens the filings might place on persons required to file.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section, establish and require persons filing with the department under this section to pay fees for any registration or filing made with the department. The director may not establish fees for more than an amount necessary to cover the administrative costs of the filing or registration.
(c) Establish the program in any division of the department the director determines is best able to administer the program.
(d) Issue, but not require, certificates of registration or other indicia of registration that the director determines will assist a registrant to establish that the registrant is registered with the department.
(4) An out-of-state collection agency is exempt from the registration fee under this section if the out-of-state collection agency is registered in another state and the other state does not require payment of an initial fee by a person who collects debts in the other state only by means of interstate communications from the person’s location in another state.
(5) The director shall charge an out-of-state collection agency a fee to register in this state that is not less than the fee the other state would charge a collection agency that collects debts solely by means of interstate communications from a location outside the other state, unless the out-of-state collection agency is exempt from paying a registration fee under this section.
(6) If another state exempts a collection agency that is located and registered in this state from a requirement to register in the other state, the director shall exempt a collection agency that is located and, if necessary, registered in the other state from the requirement to register in this state under ORS 697.005 to 697.095.
(7) The department shall maintain current records of the information required for registration under this section. [1981 c.85 §5; 1983 c.69 §1; 1991 c.627 §1; 1995 c.622 §3; 1997 c.249 §211; 2019 c.106 §2]

Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

Volume : 17 - Occupations

Chapter 697 - Collection Agencies; Check-Cashing Businesses; Debt Management Service Providers

Section 697.005 - Definitions for ORS 697.005 to 697.095.

Section 697.031 - Registration procedure; bond or letter of credit; fees; procedures for out-of-state collection agencies; rules.

Section 697.039 - Revocation, suspension or refusal to issue or renew registration.

Section 697.045 - Status of accounts and claims assigned to agency; rights of assignor; appearance in small claims or justice court; registration as condition of access to courts.

Section 697.058 - Agency records; business office; trust accounts; reporting requirements; audit of trust accounts; cost of audit; exemptions.

Section 697.063 - Status of business records and bank accounts following revocation of registration; liquidation; expenses and attorney fees.

Section 697.086 - Rules for collection of child support payments.

Section 697.087 - Injunction; damages; attorney fees; limitation on actions.

Section 697.091 - Fees or compensation received in violation of law; disposition.

Section 697.093 - Enforcement.

Section 697.094 - Orders issued under ORS 697.093.

Section 697.095 - Civil penalties.

Section 697.105 - Fee for collection of debt owed public body; notice to debtor; amount.

Section 697.107 - Prohibition on use of public agency or public official seal or letterhead.

Section 697.115 - Fee for collection of commercial debt; amount; limit.

Section 697.500 - Definitions for ORS 697.500 to 697.555.

Section 697.502 - Exemptions from licensing and record-keeping requirements.

Section 697.510 - License application form and contents; waiver; rules.

Section 697.512 - Application fee and investigation fee; rules.

Section 697.514 - Application review and license issuance; expiration and renewal; grounds for denial; rules.

Section 697.520 - Prohibited practices; effect on charges for dishonored payment instruments.

Section 697.522 - Receipt; contents.

Section 697.524 - Endorsement and deposit of payment instruments.

Section 697.528 - Records; retention; examination costs; rules.

Section 697.530 - Prohibited conduct.

Section 697.540 - Suspension or revocation of license; grounds; notice and hearing.

Section 697.542 - Powers of director; cease and desist order.

Section 697.555 - Civil penalties; restitution.

Section 697.602 - Definitions for ORS 697.602 to 697.842.

Section 697.612 - Registration requirement; exceptions.

Section 697.632 - Registration procedure; fees; rules.

Section 697.642 - Bond requirement.

Section 697.652 - Written agreement and budget analysis requirement; contents and form of agreement; waiver of requirements void.

Section 697.662 - Prohibited practices.

Section 697.672 - Requirement to make, keep and maintain records; rules.

Section 697.682 - Trust accounts for client funds; statements.

Section 697.692 - Fees; circumstances in which consumer may void contract; prohibition of waiver; rules.

Section 697.702 - Interference with records of debt management service provider.

Section 697.707 - Required disclosures.

Section 697.718 - Liability for consumer’s ascertainable loss; limitation on time to commence action.

Section 697.732 - Examinations; investigations; costs; access; public disclosure requirements and exemptions.

Section 697.752 - Grounds for denial, revocation or suspension of registration.

Section 697.762 - Enjoining violations; attorney fees; damages.

Section 697.822 - Remedy not exclusive.

Section 697.825 - Enforcement; orders.

Section 697.832 - Civil penalties.

Section 697.990 - Penalties.