Bill Text: NY S04427 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Provides certain warranties and protections for purchasers of new and used motor vehicles; includes commercial and business purchasers under the Lemon law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S04427 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S04427-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Provides certain warranties and protections for purchasers of new and used motor vehicles; includes commercial and business purchasers under the Lemon law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S04427 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S04427-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4427 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 11, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer 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. LBD00481-01-9