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8-21B-8
Section 8-21B-8 Change in management personnel; damaging actions; additional dealership agreements;
recovery of damages. (a) No supplier shall require or prohibit any change in management personnel
of any dealer unless the current or proposed management or personnel fails to meet reasonable
qualifications and standards required by the supplier for its dealers. (b) No supplier shall
engage in any action with respect to a dealer which is arbitrary, in bad faith, or unconscionable
and which causes damage to the dealer. (c) No supplier, without notice to existing dealers,
shall enter into a dealer agreement with another dealer who intends to conduct its dealership
operations from a place of business within the relevant market area of an existing dealer
or dealers representing the same line of heavy equipment. The appointment of a successor dealer
at the same location as its predecessor or within a two-mile radius therefrom within two years
from the date on which its predecessor ceased...
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8-21A-4
Section 8-21A-4 Termination, cancellation, or nonrenewal of dealer agreement; sales contract,
etc.; new or relocated dealership; sale or lease of new equipment. (a) Except as provided
in subsection (d), notwithstanding any dealer agreement, sales contract, franchise agreement,
or other agreement by and between dealer and supplier except where grounds for termination
or nonrenewal of a dealer's agreement or a change in his or her competitive position are contained
in subdivisions (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), or (6) of subsection (b), a supplier shall give a
dealer at least 90 days' written notice of the supplier's intent to terminate, cancel, or
not renew a dealer agreement or change the dealer's competitive circumstances. The notice
shall state all reasons relied upon by supplier to show good cause for the action and shall
provide the dealer with a reasonable time in which to correct any claimed deficiency with
a minimum of at least six months. Once mutually agreeable steps have been...
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8-20-4
Section 8-20-4 Unfair and deceptive trade practices. Notwithstanding the terms, provisions,
or conditions of any dealer agreement or franchise or the terms or provisions of any waiver,
prior to the termination, cancellation, or nonrenewal of any dealer agreement or franchise,
the following acts or conduct shall constitute unfair and deceptive trade practices: (1) For
any manufacturer, factory branch, factory representative, distributor, or wholesaler, distributor
branch, or distributor representative to coerce or attempt to coerce any motor vehicle dealer
to do any of the following: a. To accept, buy, or order any motor vehicle or vehicles, appliances,
equipment, parts, or accessories therefor, or any other commodity or commodities or service
or services which such motor vehicle dealer has not voluntarily ordered or requested except
items required by applicable local, state, or federal law; or to require a motor vehicle dealer
to accept, buy, order, or purchase such items in order to...
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27-29-3
Section 27-29-3 Acquisition of control of, or merger with, domestic insurers. (a)(1) No person
other than the issuer shall make a tender offer for or a request or invitation for tenders
of, or enter into any agreement to exchange securities for, seek to acquire, or acquire in
the open market any voting security of a domestic insurer if, after the consummation thereof,
such person would, directly or indirectly, or by conversion or by exercise of any right to
acquire, be in control of such insurer, and no person shall enter into an agreement to merge
with or otherwise to acquire control of a domestic insurer, or any person controlling a domestic
insurer unless, at the time any such offer, request, or invitation is made or any such agreement
is entered into, or prior to the acquisition of such securities if no offer or agreement is
involved such person has filed with the commissioner and has sent to such insurer a statement
containing the information required by this section and such...
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8-21B-3
Section 8-21B-3 Definitions. The following words shall have the following meanings: (1) DEALER.
A person, corporation, partnership, or other business entity primarily engaged in the business
of retail sales or leasing of heavy equipment and heavy equipment parts and who has an established
place of business in this state. If a dealer's retail sales volume of heavy equipment and
heavy equipment parts purchased from a single supplier is greater than 70 percent of such
dealer's total retail sales volume of heavy equipment and heavy equipment parts during the
12-month period immediately prior to May 22, 2009, or the term of any dealer agreement entered
into between the supplier and such dealer after May 22, 2009, then the dealer and such supplier
shall not be subject to this chapter with respect to the dealer agreement and transactions
between them, but the dealer shall otherwise be subject to this chapter with respect to dealer
agreements and transactions with other suppliers. (2) DEALER...
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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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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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45-2-22.06
Section 45-2-22.06 Conditions of amendment, modification, termination, etc., of agreement.
(a) Notwithstanding any agreement and except as otherwise provided for in this part, a supplier
shall not: Amend or modify an agreement; cause a wholesaler to resign from an agreement; or
cancel, terminate, fail to renew, or refuse to continue under an agreement, unless the supplier
has complied with all of the following: (1) Has satisfied the applicable notice requirements
of subsection (c). (2) Has acted in good faith. (3) Has good cause for the amendment, modification,
cancellation, termination, nonrenewal, discontinuance, or forced resignation. (b) For each
amendment, modification, termination, cancellation, nonrenewal, or discontinuance, the supplier
shall have the burden of proving that it has acted in good faith, that the notice requirements
under this section have been complied with, and that there was good cause for the amendment,
modification, termination, cancellation, nonrenewal, or...
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45-37-21.07
Section 45-37-21.07 Amendment, modification, termination, etc., of agreement. (a) Notwithstanding
any agreement and except as otherwise provided for in this part, a supplier shall not amend
or modify an agreement; cause a wholesaler to resign from an agreement; or cancel, terminate,
fail to renew, or refuse to continue under an agreement, unless, in any of the foregoing cases,
the supplier has complied with all of the following: (1) Has satisfied the applicable notice
requirements of subsection (c). (2) Has acted in good faith. (3) Has good cause for the amendment,
modification, cancellation, termination, nonrenewal, discontinuance, or forced resignation.
(b) For each amendment, modification, termination, cancellation, nonrenewal, or discontinuance,
the supplier shall have the burden of proving that it has acted in good faith, that the notice
requirements under this section have been complied with, and that there was good cause for
the amendment, modification, termination,...
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45-49-23.05
Section 45-49-23.05 Conditions of amendment, modification, termination, etc., of agreement.
(a) Notwithstanding any agreement and except as otherwise provided for in this part, a supplier
shall not: amend or modify an agreement; cause a wholesaler to resign from an agreement; or
cancel, terminate, fail to renew, or refuse to continue under an agreement, unless the supplier
has complied with all of the following: (1) Has satisfied the applicable notice requirements
of subsection (c). (2) Has acted in good faith. (3) Has good cause for the amendment, modification,
cancellation, termination, nonrenewal, discontinuance, or forced resignation. (b) For each
amendment, modification, termination, cancellation, nonrenewal, or discontinuance, the supplier
shall have the burden of proving that it has acted in good faith, that the notice requirements
under this section have been complied with, and that there was good cause for the amendment,
modification, termination, cancellation, nonrenewal, or...
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