Provides that where a person engaged in the business of repairing household appliances identifies a part which will be necessary for repair, it is deemed warranted for the benefit of the consumer, and he shall be entitled to a refund if such part does not in fact repair such appliance.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2286
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to home or busi-
ness visits to repair appliances or equipment
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
2 395-c to read as follows:
3 § 395-c. Reliance upon the advice of an appliance repair business. In
4 any case where a consumer is charged for a written estimate wherein a
5 person engaged in the business of repairing household appliances
6 provides a detailed statement estimating the parts and costs necessary
7 to repair such an appliance, and relying upon such estimate the consumer
8 purchases such parts, such consumer shall be entitled to a full and
9 complete refund of the estimate charge in the event the part removed
10 from the appliance was, in fact, in good working condition. Any such
11 repair business shall be deemed to have warranted such estimate and
12 recommendations, and shall be liable for any actual and consequential
13 damages incurred by a consumer who relied upon such estimate.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
15 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.
LBD05642-01-9
