STATE OF NEW YORK
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3911
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2019
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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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 396-qq of the general business
2 law, as added by chapter 553 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. Whenever a dealer sells or leases a motor vehicle with a global
5 positioning system (GPS) installed in such motor vehicle, the dealer
6 shall inform the purchaser or lessee of the need to periodically update
7 the maps of the global positioning system and the dealer shall provide
8 either the current amount it will cost the purchaser or lessee to update
9 the maps, or a good faith estimate of the amount of such charges. The
10 dealer shall set forth on such sales contract or lease agreement or on a
11 separate document to be initialled by the purchaser or lessee in
12 conspicuous boldface type, the following disclosure: "THE AMOUNT INDI-
13 CATED ON THIS SALES CONTRACT OR LEASE AGREEMENT FOR UPDATED GLOBAL POSI-
14 TIONING SYSTEM MAP FEES IS THE CURRENT COST FOR UPDATE ON DAY OF
15 SALE/LEASE OR AN ESTIMATE OF FUTURE COST."
16 4. Where a violation of this section is alleged to have occurred, the
17 attorney general may apply in the name of the people of the state of New
18 York to the supreme court of the state of New York within the judicial
19 district in which such violation is alleged to have occurred, on notice
20 of five days, for an order enjoining or restraining the continuance of
21 such violation. In any such proceeding the court may impose a civil
22 penalty in an amount not to exceed five hundred dollars and order resti-
23 tution to aggrieved consumers.
24 § 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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