(a) Purpose. This section clarifies and establishes requirements related to the Commissioner's authority to make inspections of a wrap lender required to register as a residential mortgage loan servicer under Finance Code Chapter 158, as provided by Finance Code §159.252.

(b) Notice of Examination. Except when the Department determines that giving advance notice would impair the examination, the Department will give the primary contact person of the wrap lender registrant listed in NMLS, or a person designated by the primary contact person, advance notice of each examination. Such notice will be sent to the primary contact person's or designated person's mailing address or email address of record with NMLS and will specify the date on which the Department's examiners are scheduled to begin the examination. Failure to actually receive the notice will not be grounds for delay or postponement of the examination. The notice will include a list of the documents and records that must be produced or made available to facilitate the examination.

(c) Scope. Examinations will be conducted to determine compliance with Finance Code Chapter 159, and this chapter, and will specifically address whether:

(1) all required books and records are being maintained in accordance with §78.401 of this title (relating to Required Books and Records by a Wrap Lender Registrant);

(2) all legal and regulatory requirements applicable to the wrap lender registrant are being properly followed; and

(3) other matters as the Commissioner may deem necessary or advisable to carry out the purposes of Finance Code Chapter 159.

(d) The examiners will review a sample of wrap mortgage loan files identified by the examiners and randomly selected from the wrap lender registrant's wrap mortgage servicing log. The examiner may expand the number of files to be reviewed if, in his or her discretion, conditions warrant.

(e) The examiners may require a wrap lender registrant, at its own cost, to make copies of loan files or such other books and records as the examiners deem appropriate for the preparation of or inclusion in the examination report.

(f) Confidentiality. The work papers, compilations, findings, reports, summaries, and other materials, in whatever form, relating to an examination conducted under this section, will be maintained as confidential except as permitted or required by law.

(g) Reimbursement for Costs. When the Department must travel outside of Texas to conduct an examination of a wrap lender registrant because the required records are maintained at a location outside of Texas, the Department will require reimbursement for the actual costs incurred by the Department in connection with such travel, including, but not limited to, transportation, lodging, meals, communications, courier service, and any other reasonably related costs.

Source Note: The provisions of this §78.402 adopted to be effective January 8, 2022, 46 TexReg 9238