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A01954 Summary:

BILL NO	A01954
SAME AS	No same as
SPONSOR	Hooper (MS)
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR	Rivera, Weprin
Add S399-j, Gen Bus L
Requires motor vehicle repair shops to give fair and legal estimates; provides a civil penalty of not more than three hundred dollars.

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A01954 Actions:

BILL NO	A01954
01/09/2013	referred to consumer affairs and protection
01/08/2014	referred to consumer affairs and protection

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A01954 Floor Votes:

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A01954 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1954
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 9, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. HOOPER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. RIVERA,
          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:
 
     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  399-j to read as follows:
     3    § 399-j. Motor vehicle repair shops; fair and legal estimate.  1.  All
     4  motor  vehicle repair shops shall give a fair and legal estimate for any
     5  repairs necessary on a motor vehicle. Such estimate shall  be  projected
     6  to  the  best of such motor vehicle repair shop's employee's ability and
     7  shall delineate and outline the prices of necessary parts and labor.
     8    2. A violation of the provisions of this section shall  be  punishable
     9  by a civil penalty of not more than three hundred dollars recoverable in

    10  an action by the attorney general in the name of the people of the state
    11  or  by the corporation counsel for any city or by the appropriate attor-
    12  ney of any other political subdivision as shall  be  designated  by  the
    13  governing body of such political subdivision.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05687-01-3

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