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Oklahoma regulates home warranties, auto warranties, and theft-deterrent products under three separate laws

Our Georgia page covers a state that splits home and auto service contracts into different backing requirements inside one Insurance Code section. Oklahoma splits further still: three adjacent product categories, three separate statutory schemes, spread across two different Titles of the Oklahoma Statutes — all enforced by the same Insurance Commissioner.

Home warranties: their own Act, and declared not to be insurance at all

The Oklahoma Home Service Contract Act, 36 O.S. §§ 6750–6755, states its own purpose directly at § 6751: to create an independent legal framework in which home service contracts and home warranties are defined, sold, and regulated — and to declare them not insurance and not otherwise subject to the Insurance Code. Registration, not licensure, is what the Act actually requires, and registering properly under it exempts a provider from Oklahoma's separate Service Warranty Act described below.

A three-way menu for proving a home warranty provider can pay claims

Section 6753(C) gives a provider three distinct ways to satisfy the Act's financial-assurance requirement, and a provider only has to meet one: (1) a funded reserve account of at least 40 percent of gross consideration received, less claims paid, on all in-force contracts, plus a security deposit filed in trust with the Commissioner of at least 5 percent of that same gross consideration (never less than $25,000); (2) net worth or stockholders' equity, alone or combined with a parent company's, of at least $25,000,000 — excluding goodwill, intangible assets, customer lists, and affiliated receivables — evidenced by an SEC Form 10-K or 20-F, or GAAP financial statements, on request; or (3) an insurance policy backing the provider's obligations, with the contract itself required to state that it's "insured under a service contract reimbursement insurance policy." A provider using that third option can also elect a flat $3,000 annual administrative fee instead of the standard 2 percent fee — a small but real incentive toward the insured route.

A different law, in a different Title, for everything else with "warranty" in the name

Extended, retail, and automobile service warranty agreements that don't fit the Home Service Contract Act's own definition fall instead under Oklahoma's Service Warranty Act — codified not in Title 36 (Insurance) but in Title 15 (Contracts), at 15 O.S. §§ 141.2 through roughly § 150, even though the Insurance Commissioner is still the one who administers and enforces it. This is a genuinely different financial-backing structure from the home warranty menu above, not just a smaller version of it: § 141.5 makes filing the Act's required bond a condition of licensure itself, and § 141.6 layers a funded, unearned reserve account of at least 25 percent of gross written provider fees on in-force contracts on top of a separate surety bond of at least 5 percent of gross provider fees received (never less than $25,000) — reserve and bond together, not either-or. The one way around both pieces: an association that instead buys an insurance policy covering 100 percent of its claim exposure is excused from the reserve and net-asset-ratio requirement specifically.

A third law again for a product that only looks like a warranty

A "vehicle protection product" — a theft-deterrent device, system, or service like an alarm, window etching, a steering-wheel or ignition lock, a kill switch, or a GPS/radio tracking device, sold with a written promise to pay specified costs if it fails to prevent a theft — is neither a home warranty nor a service warranty under Oklahoma law. It gets its own statute again: 36 O.S. §§ 6650–6661. A warrantor has to register (§ 6653) but doesn't need an insurance license, and can't use words like "insurance," "casualty," or "surety" in its name or materials unless it actually holds one (§ 6657) — the same section that separately bars a seller from making a vehicle protection product a condition of financing the vehicle itself. Our vehicle protection products guide covers why this category exists as its own thing in several states, not just Oklahoma.