S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2017-2018 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 9, 2017
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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:
Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 198-a of the
general business law, as amended by chapter 530 of the laws of 1990, is
amended to read as follows:
(1) "Consumer" means the purchaser, lessee or transferee, other than
for purposes of resale, of a motor vehicle which is used primarily for
personal, family or household purposes OR COMMERCIAL OR BUSINESS
PURPOSES and any other person entitled by the terms of the manufactur-
er's warranty to enforce the obligations of such warranty;
§ 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision a of section 198-b of the general
business law, as amended by chapter 530 of the laws of 1990, is amended
to read as follows:
1. "Consumer" means the purchaser, or lessee, other than for purposes
of resale, of a used motor vehicle primarily used for personal, family,
or household purposes OR COMMERCIAL OR BUSINESS PURPOSES and subject to
a warranty, and the spouse or child of the purchaser or the lessee if
either such motor vehicle or the lease of such motor vehicle is trans-
ferred to the spouse or child during the duration of any warranty appli-
cable to such motor vehicle, and any other person entitled by the terms
of such warranty to enforce the obligations of the warranty;
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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