Bill Text: NY A03686 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to broadening the definition of a consumer.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A03686 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03686-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3686
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the  definition
          of a consumer
          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 for
     6  personal,  family  or  household  purposes  or  commercial  or  business
     7  purposes  and  any other person entitled by the terms of the manufactur-
     8  er's warranty to enforce the obligations of such warranty;
     9    § 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision a of  section  198-b  of  the  general
    10  business  law, as amended by chapter 530 of the laws of 1990, is amended
    11  to read as follows:
    12    1. "Consumer" means the purchaser, or lessee, other than for  purposes
    13  of  resale, of a used motor vehicle primarily used for personal, family,
    14  or household purposes or commercial or business purposes and subject  to
    15  a  warranty,  and  the spouse or child of the purchaser or the lessee if
    16  either such motor vehicle or the lease of such motor vehicle  is  trans-
    17  ferred to the spouse or child during the duration of any warranty appli-
    18  cable  to such motor vehicle, and any other person entitled by the terms
    19  of such warranty to enforce the obligations of the warranty;
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    21  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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