Authority Of State Mutual Associations To Make Real Estate Loans -- Borrower Insurance Requirements

(1) A state mutual association has the same authority to make loans on real estate that is given by acts of congress or the federal reserve system to federal savings associations. (2) A mutual association that is subject to this section may not require a borrower, as a condition of obtaining or maintaining a loan secured by real property, to provide insurance on improvements to real property in an amount that exceeds the reasonable replacement value of the improvements.