Requires that motor vehicle repair shop invoices provide certain information regarding work guarantees stating the terms and time limits of any guarantee for repair work performed; also requires that if no guarantee is provided, the invoice must state such fact.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2168
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. MILLMAN, ORTIZ, COOK, CASTRO -- Multi-Sponsored
by -- M. of A. BARRON, BOYLAND, GALEF, GOTTFRIED, JEFFRIES, McENENY,
PHEFFER, REILLY, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to repair work
guarantees
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 398-d of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
3 8. (a) The invoice provided by the motor vehicle repair shop in
4 accordance with subdivision one of this section shall conspicuously set
5 forth the terms and time limit of any guarantee for the repair work
6 performed. Where no guarantee is given, the invoice shall so state.
7 (b) The invoice shall further contain a statement to the effect that
8 complaints regarding the functional adequacy of the repair work
9 performed may be directed to the department, but in no event later than
10 ninety days or three thousand miles of the repair, whichever comes
11 first.
12 (c) The provisions of this subdivision shall not be construed to limit
13 or abridge any statutory or other right or remedy of a consumer at law
14 or in equity.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
16 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04937-01-1
