Bill Text: NY A03253 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Expands new car lemon law protection to include motor vehicles used for commercial or business purposes.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-24 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A03253 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A03253-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3253
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 24, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. RABBITT, CASTRO, CROUCH, MALLIOTAKIS, TITONE --
read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and
Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to including motor
vehicles used for commercial or business use under the protection of
the new car lemon law
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 198-a of the
2 general business law, as amended by chapter 530 of the laws of 1990, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (1) "Consumer" means the purchaser, lessee or transferee, other than
5 for purposes of resale, of a motor vehicle which is used [primarily]
6 EITHER for personal, family or household purposes OR COMMERCIAL OR BUSI-
7 NESS PURPOSES and any other person entitled by the terms of the manufac-
8 turer's warranty to enforce the obligations of such warranty;
9 S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
10 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05403-01-3
