STATE OF NEW YORK
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3686
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2019
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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:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 198-a of the
2 general business law, as amended by chapter 530 of the laws of 1990, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (1) "Consumer" means the purchaser, lessee or transferee, other than
5 for purposes of resale, of a motor vehicle which is used primarily for
6 personal, family or household purposes or commercial or business
7 purposes and any other person entitled by the terms of the manufactur-
8 er's warranty to enforce the obligations of such warranty;
9 § 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision a of section 198-b of the general
10 business law, as amended by chapter 530 of the laws of 1990, is amended
11 to read as follows:
12 1. "Consumer" means the purchaser, or lessee, other than for purposes
13 of resale, of a used motor vehicle primarily used for personal, family,
14 or household purposes or commercial or business purposes and subject to
15 a warranty, and the spouse or child of the purchaser or the lessee if
16 either such motor vehicle or the lease of such motor vehicle is trans-
17 ferred to the spouse or child during the duration of any warranty appli-
18 cable to such motor vehicle, and any other person entitled by the terms
19 of such warranty to enforce the obligations of the warranty;
20 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
21 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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