Bill Text: NY A02235 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Expands new car lemon law protection to include motor vehicles used for commercial or business purposes.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-16 - held for consideration in consumer affairs and protection [A02235 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A02235-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2235
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 14, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. RABBITT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee 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.
LBD03904-01-1
