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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="19-301" title_number="19" title_name="Equipment Dealer Contract Act" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Violations by Suppliers; Remedies">
  <text>A supplier may not:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>Coerce a dealer to accept delivery of equipment, parts, or accessories that the dealer has not ordered voluntarily unless the parts or accessories are safety parts or accessories required by the supplier;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>Condition the sale of additional equipment to a dealer on a requirement that the dealer also purchase other goods or services, except that a supplier may require the dealer to purchase parts that are reasonably necessary to maintain the quality of operation in the field of the equipment used in the trade area;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>Coerce a dealer into refusing to purchase equipment manufactured by another supplier; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>Terminate, cancel, or fail to renew or substantially change the competitive circumstances of the retail agreement based on the results of any circumstance beyond the dealer’s control, including a natural disaster such as a sustained drought, high unemployment in the dealer market area, or a labor dispute.</text>
  </level>
</section>
