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8-20-4
carriers. q. To offer any refunds or other types of inducements to any person for the purchase
of new motor vehicles of a certain line make to be sold to the state or any political subdivision
thereof without making the same offer to all other new motor vehicle dealers in the same line
make within the state. r. To release to any outside party, except under subpoena, or as otherwise
required by law or in an administrative, judicial, or arbitration proceeding, any business,
financial, or personal information which may be from time to time provided by the dealer
to the manufacturer, without the express written consent of the dealer. s. To own an interest
in a new motor vehicle dealership, to operate or control a dealership, to make direct sales
or leases of new motor vehicles to the public in Alabama, or to own, operate, or control a
facility for performance of motor vehicle warranty or repair service work, except as follows:
1. The manufacturer or distributor is owning or operating...
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8-20-3
Section 8-20-3 Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly
indicates a different meaning: (1) COERCE. The failure to act in good faith in performing
or complying with any term or provision of the franchise or dealer agreement, except that
recommendation, persuasion, urging, or argument shall not be deemed to constitute a lack of
good faith. (2) DEALER AGREEMENT or FRANCHISE. The written contract between any new motor
vehicle manufacturer and any new motor vehicle dealer which purports to fix the legal rights
and liabilities of the parties to such agreement or contract, and pursuant to which the dealer
purchases and resells the franchise product or leases or rents the dealership premises. (3)
DISTRIBUTOR or WHOLESALER. A person, whether a resident or a nonresident, other than a manufacturer,
who sells or distributes motor vehicles to motor vehicle dealers or who...
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40-12-395
Section 40-12-395 License - Supplemental licenses; off-site sales. (a) A person licensed under
this article shall obtain a supplemental license for each additional place of business, in
a manner as prescribed by the commissioner and upon payment of an additional application fee
of five dollars ($5) for each additional location. The signage and other requirements of Section
40-12-392 shall apply to each additional place of business. Only one licensed dealer shall
operate at the same place of business. (b) Notwithstanding the requirement that sales of new
and used motor vehicles shall be made only from the permanent location of the new or used
motor vehicle dealer, such dealers may conduct sales of new and used motor vehicles from locations
off-site of their permanent locations on the following conditions: (1) The off-site sales
events shall not exceed three per dealer per license year with each sale not to exceed 10
consecutive calendar days in duration. Off-site sales of new motor...
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40-12-390
Section 40-12-390 Definitions. The following words and phrases, when used in this article,
shall have the following meanings: (1) COMMISSIONER. The state Commissioner of Revenue. (2)
DEPARTMENT. The Department of Revenue. (3) DISTRIBUTOR. Any person engaged in the business
of selling or distributing new motor vehicles to new motor vehicle dealers. (4) FACILITATOR.
Any person or his or her designee who facilitates an off-site sale licensed under Section
40-12-395. The term may include the owner of the property where the off-site sale is being
conducted. (5) MANUFACTURER. Any person engaged in the business of manufacturing or assembling
new and unused motor vehicles. (6) MASTER DEALER LICENSE. The license issued by the department
pursuant to this article. (7) MOTOR VEHICLE. Any motor vehicle as defined in Section 40-12-240,
but the term shall not include any trailer not required to have a certificate of title. (8)
MOTOR VEHICLE REBUILDER. Any person engaged in the business of making or...
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8-21A-2
Section 8-21A-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the ascribed
meanings unless the context indicates a different meaning: (1) CONTINUING COMMERCIAL RELATIONSHIP.
Any relationship in which the equipment dealer has been granted the right to sell and/or service
equipment manufactured by the supplier. (2) COST or NET COST. The actual price paid by the
dealer to the manufacturer, distributor, or wholesaler, plus freight costs paid by or charged
to the dealer. (3) CURRENT NET PRICE. The dealer's price as listed in the supplier's effective
price list and/or catalog. (4) DEALER CONTRACT, DEALER AGREEMENT, or FRANCHISE. An agreement
or contract, expressed or implied, oral or written, by and between a supplier and a dealer
by which the dealer is granted the right to purchase, sell, distribute, and/or service the
supplier's equipment, and in which there is a community of interest in the marketing of farm
tractors, lawn and garden equipment, light industrial...
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40-12-240
representative of any of them. (22) PICKUP TRUCK. As defined in Section 32-8-2. (23) PRIVATE
PASSENGER AUTOMOBILE. Every motor vehicle designed primarily for the transportation of nine
persons or less except the following: a. Motorcycles. b. Motor vehicles used in the transportation
of persons for hire. c. Trailers or semitrailers. d. Self-propelled campers or house cars
including every motor vehicle of the type usually referred to as a bus which is owned and
operated by an individual for personal or private use and not for hire, rent, or compensation.
Motor trucks of the type commonly known as "pickups" or "pickup trucks,"
regardless of the use made of any such motor trucks and regardless of whether the owner thereof
owns or has access to any other mode of transportation, shall not be deemed to constitute
a private passenger automobile. (24) PUBLIC HIGHWAY. Every highway, road, street, alley, lane,
court, place, trail, drive, bridge, viaduct, or trestle, located either within a...
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8-19-5
means the transmission of information by the use of the telephone, with the specific intent
of defrauding a person by a material misrepresentation and obtaining property from that person
as a result of the fraud. Puffing or puffery does not constitute a scheme or artifice to defraud.
(26) Making any communication by telephone directly to another person which offers to the
other person a gift, award, or prize, where the person making the communication has actual
knowledge at the time of making the communication that the communication was materially false
and the person making the communication specifically intended to deprive the other person
of real or personal property as a result of the false communication. (27) Engaging
in any other unconscionable, false, misleading, or deceptive act or practice in the conduct
of trade or commerce. (Acts 1981, No. 81-355, p. 510, §5; Acts 1993, No. 93-203, §1; Act
99-583, p. 1327, §1; Act 2000-712, p. 1509, §1; Act 2002-496, p. 1276, §1.)...
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8-20-5
Section 8-20-5 Limitations on cancellations, modifications, terminations, and nonrenewals of
franchise relationships. (a) Notwithstanding the terms, provisions, or conditions of any agreement
or franchise or notwithstanding the terms or provisions of any waiver, no manufacturer shall
cancel, terminate, modify, fail to renew, or refuse to continue any franchise relationship
with a licensed new motor vehicle dealer unless the manufacturer has: (1) Satisfied the notice
requirement of this section. (2) Acted in good faith as defined in this chapter. (3) Has good
cause for the cancellation, termination, modification, nonrenewal, or noncontinuance. (b)
Notwithstanding the terms, provisions, or conditions of any agreement or franchise or the
terms or provisions of any waiver, good cause shall exist for the purposes of a termination,
cancellation, modification, nonrenewal, or noncontinuance when: (1) There is a failure by
the new motor vehicle dealer to comply with a provision of the franchise...
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8-20-7
Section 8-20-7 Warranty obligations to dealers. (a) Every manufacturer, distributor, or wholesaler,
factory branch, factory representative, distributor branch, or distributor representative
shall specify in writing to each of its motor vehicle dealers the dealer's obligation for
warranty service on its products, shall compensate the motor vehicle dealer for warranty service
required of the dealer by the manufacturer, distributor, or wholesaler, factory branch, factory
representative, distributor branch, or distributor representative and shall provide the dealer
the schedule of compensation to be paid such dealer for parts, work, and service in connection
with warranty services, and the time allowance for the performance of such work and service.
(b) In no event shall such schedule of compensation fail to include reasonable compensation
for diagnostic work, service, labor, and parts. Time allowances for the diagnosis and performance
of warranty work and service shall be reasonable and...
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8-20-6
Section 8-20-6 Predelivery obligations. Every manufacturer or wholesaler or distributor, factory
branch, factory representative, distributor branch or distributor representative shall specify
to the motor vehicle dealer the delivery and preparation obligations of its motor vehicle
dealers prior to delivery of new motor vehicles to retail buyers. A copy of the delivery and
preparation obligations of its motor vehicle dealers and a schedule of the compensation to
be paid to its motor vehicle dealers for the work and services they shall be required to perform
in connection with such delivery and preparation obligations shall be presented to the dealer
and the obligations specified therein shall constitute any such dealer's only predelivery
obligations as between such dealer and such manufacturer or wholesaler or distributor. The
compensation as set forth on said schedule shall be reasonable. (Acts 1981, No. 81-390, p.
596, §6.)...
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