Assembly Bill A4081

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires motor vehicle repair shops to give fair and legal estimates

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A4081 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §399-hh, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A6112
2011-2012: A5231
2013-2014: A1954
2015-2016: A5686

2017-A4081 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires motor vehicle repair shops to give fair and legal estimates; provides a civil penalty of not more than three hundred dollars.

2017-A4081 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4081
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. HOOPER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. WEPRIN
   -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Consumer  Affairs  and
   Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring motor
   vehicle shops to give fair and legal estimates for car repairs

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 399-hh to read as follows:
   § 399-HH. MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR SHOPS; FAIR AND LEGAL ESTIMATE.  1. ALL
 MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR SHOPS SHALL GIVE A FAIR AND LEGAL ESTIMATE FOR  ANY
 REPAIRS  NECESSARY  ON A MOTOR VEHICLE. SUCH ESTIMATE SHALL BE PROJECTED
 TO THE BEST OF SUCH MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR SHOP'S EMPLOYEE'S  ABILITY  AND
 SHALL DELINEATE AND OUTLINE THE PRICES OF NECESSARY PARTS AND LABOR.
   2.  A  VIOLATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE PUNISHABLE
 BY A CIVIL PENALTY OF NOT MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS RECOVERABLE IN
 AN ACTION BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
 OR BY THE CORPORATION COUNSEL FOR ANY CITY OR BY THE APPROPRIATE  ATTOR-
 NEY  OF  ANY  OTHER  POLITICAL SUBDIVISION AS SHALL BE DESIGNATED BY THE
 GOVERNING BODY OF SUCH POLITICAL SUBDIVISION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08743-01-7

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