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<section article="gtr" article_name="Transportation" number="15-1011" title_number="15" title_name="Vehicle Laws -- Licensing of Businesses and Occupations" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Recreational Vehicle Dealer Agreements">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each warrantor shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Specify in writing each dealer’s obligations for preparation, delivery, and warranty service for the warrantor’s products;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Compensate the dealer for warranty service performed by the dealer that is covered by the warranty; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Provide the dealer a schedule of compensation to be paid and the reasonable time allowance for the performance of any service and repairs under a warranty.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the schedule of compensation does not include a particular service or repair, a warrantor shall reimburse the dealer a reasonable amount for the service or repair.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A warrantor shall reimburse the dealer for any warranty part at wholesale cost plus a 30% handling charge.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The maximum handling charge under this subsection is $300.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A warrantor shall reimburse a dealer the cost of freight to return a warranty part, an accessory, or a component to the warrantor, if the return is requested by the warrantor.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Warranty audits of dealer records may be conducted by the warrantor on a reasonable basis.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A dealer shall submit a warranty claim within 45 days after completing the work.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A warrantor may disapprove warranty claims only in writing within 45 days after the date the warranty claim was submitted by the dealer in the manner prescribed by the warrantor.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Claims not disapproved in writing within 45 days shall be deemed to be approved and shall be paid by the warrantor within 60 days.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>A dealer shall give notice to a warrantor as soon as reasonably possible if the dealer is unable or unwilling to perform material or repetitive warranty repairs.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>It is a violation of this section for any warrantor to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Fail to perform any of its warranty obligations with respect to its warranted products;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Fail to include written notices of factory campaigns to recreational vehicle owners and dealers for the expected date by which parts and equipment will be available to dealers to perform the campaign work;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If the carrier is designated by the manufacturer, distributor, or warrantor, fail to compensate a dealer for authorized repairs performed by a dealer for a product damaged in transit to the dealer;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Fail to compensate any dealer for authorized warranty service in accordance with the time allowances set forth in the schedule of compensation, if performed in a timely manner;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Intentionally misrepresent to purchasers of recreational vehicles that a dealer is a warrantor or co–warrantor; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Require a dealer to make warranties to customers in any manner related to the manufacturing of a recreational vehicle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>It is a violation of this section for a dealer to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Fail to perform predelivery inspection functions as specified by the warrantor;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Fail to perform warranty service work authorized by the warrantor in a reasonably timely manner on any transient customer’s recreational vehicle of the same line–make;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Fail to track actual time expended to perform warranty work not governed by time allowance in the schedule of compensation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Claim an agency relationship with a warrantor; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Misrepresent the terms of a warranty.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>Unless specified in the terms of a dealer agreement, it is a violation of this section for:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A warrantor to fail to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless a dealer against any losses or damages to the extent the losses or damages are caused by the negligence or misconduct of the warrantor; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A dealer to fail to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless a warrantor against any losses or damages to the extent the losses or damages are caused by the negligence or misconduct of the dealer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>Indemnification under this subsection shall include court costs, reasonable attorney’s fees, and expert witness fees incurred by the defending party.</text>
  </level>
</section>
