{"id":4428,"date":"2011-04-21T09:37:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T15:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2013-03-11T14:54:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T20:54:44","slug":"bill-clarifying-motor-vehicle-manufacturerdealer-agreements-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=4428","title":{"rendered":"Bill clarifying motor vehicle manufacturer\/dealer agreements passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 20 affecting agreements between motor vehicle manufacturers and dealers.<\/p>\n<p>LB477, introduced by Valentine Sen. Deb Fischer, prohibits motor vehicle manufacturers from requiring new motor vehicle dealers in the state to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>retain parts or accessories that were not obtained through a specific order and not sold within 12 months;<\/li>\n<li>maintain exclusive sales facilities or display space, personnel, service, parts or administrative facilities for a line-make, unless it is justified by reasonable business considerations; or<\/li>\n<li>enter into any agreement with a manufacturer, factory branch, distributor, distributor branch or one of its affiliates that gives site control of the dealer premise and does not terminate under certain conditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Manufacturers are required to compensate new dealers for warranty and recall obligations related to repair, service and installation. A dealer\u2019s claim for warranty compensation may be denied only if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it is based on a nonwarranty repair;<\/li>\n<li>the dealer lacks documentation for the claim; or<\/li>\n<li>the dealer fails to comply with specific substantive evidence that the claim is intentionally false, fraudulent or misrepresented.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The bill prohibits franchisors from sharing or selling private customer information obtained by dealers unless agreed to by the originating dealers. Franchisors also may not prohibit a dealer from acquiring a line-make of new vehicles solely because the dealer owns another dealership of the same line-make in a contiguous market.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed 46-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 20 affecting agreements between motor vehicle manufacturers and dealers. LB477, introduced by Valentine Sen. Deb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-4428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation-and-telecommunications","tag-sen-deb-fischer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10263,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions\/10263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}