Assembly Bill A3911

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires dealers to disclose information regarding fees for updating maps on global positioning systems installed in motor vehicles

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  • 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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2019-A3911 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §396-qq, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A7231
2017-2018: A3092

2019-A3911 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires dealers to disclose information regarding fees for updating maps on global positioning systems installed in motor vehicles.

2019-A3911 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3911
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DenDEKKER  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring deal-
   ers to disclose information regarding fees for updating maps on global
   positioning systems installed in motor vehicles

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of section 396-qq of the general business
 law, as added by chapter 553 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read  as
 follows:
   3.  WHENEVER  A  DEALER  SELLS OR LEASES A MOTOR VEHICLE WITH A GLOBAL
 POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS) INSTALLED IN SUCH  MOTOR  VEHICLE,  THE  DEALER
 SHALL  INFORM THE PURCHASER OR LESSEE OF THE NEED TO PERIODICALLY UPDATE
 THE MAPS OF THE GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM AND THE DEALER  SHALL  PROVIDE
 EITHER THE CURRENT AMOUNT IT WILL COST THE PURCHASER OR LESSEE TO UPDATE
 THE  MAPS,  OR  A GOOD FAITH ESTIMATE OF THE AMOUNT OF SUCH CHARGES. THE
 DEALER SHALL SET FORTH ON SUCH SALES CONTRACT OR LEASE AGREEMENT OR ON A
 SEPARATE DOCUMENT TO  BE  INITIALLED  BY  THE  PURCHASER  OR  LESSEE  IN
 CONSPICUOUS  BOLDFACE  TYPE, THE FOLLOWING DISCLOSURE: "THE AMOUNT INDI-
 CATED ON THIS SALES CONTRACT OR LEASE AGREEMENT FOR UPDATED GLOBAL POSI-
 TIONING SYSTEM MAP FEES IS  THE  CURRENT  COST  FOR  UPDATE  ON  DAY  OF
 SALE/LEASE OR AN ESTIMATE OF FUTURE COST."
   4.  Where a violation of this section is alleged to have occurred, the
 attorney general may apply in the name of the people of the state of New
 York to the supreme court of the state of New York within  the  judicial
 district  in which such violation is alleged to have occurred, on notice
 of five days, for an order enjoining or restraining the  continuance  of
 such  violation.  In  any  such  proceeding the court may impose a civil
 penalty in an amount not to exceed five hundred dollars and order resti-
 tution to aggrieved consumers.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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