{"id":809,"date":"2017-07-08T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/07\/08\/ag-opinion-request-testing-the-waters-on-manufacturers-dealerships\/"},"modified":"2017-07-08T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T19:55:00","slug":"ag-opinion-request-testing-the-waters-on-manufacturers-dealerships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/ag-opinion-request-testing-the-waters-on-manufacturers-dealerships\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Opinion Request. Testing the Waters on Manufacturers &#038; Dealerships."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion Request, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/rq\/2017\/pdf\/RQ0170KP.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">RQ-0170-KP<\/a>, from texas Department of Motor Vehicles wants the Attorney General to answer this question:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Whether wholly owning a motor vehicle manufacturer results in affiliation with that manufacturer for purposes of section 2301.476(a)(2) of the Occupations Code.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What does DMV point out in its opinion request?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Forest River (FR) is a vehicle manufacturer<\/li>\n<li>Berkshire Hathaway\u00a0Automotive \u00a0(BHA) operates dealerships<\/li>\n<li>Berkshire Hathaway (BH) owns Forest River<\/li>\n<li>BHA is a manufacturer under Texas law because it owns FR<\/li>\n<li>If BH relinquishes control over FR but maintains ownership, will BH no longer be a manufacturer?<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s also 2 competing standards to determine manufacturer ownership- &#8220;affilaited with&#8221; and &#8220;under common control with&#8221;, which standard complies? and if it&#8217;s common control can it be relinquished?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion Request, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/rq\/2017\/pdf\/RQ0170KP.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">RQ-0170-KP<\/a>, from texas Department of Motor Vehicles wants the Attorney General to answer this question:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Whether wholly owning a motor vehicle manufacturer results in affiliation with that manufacturer for purposes of section 2301.476(a)(2) of the Occupations Code.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What does DMV point out in its opinion request?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Forest River (FR) is a vehicle manufacturer<\/li>\n<li>Berkshire Hathaway\u00a0Automotive \u00a0(BHA) operates dealerships<\/li>\n<li>Berkshire Hathaway (BH) owns Forest River<\/li>\n<li>BHA is a\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,22,10,17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-attorney-general","category-legislative-trend","category-motor-vehicles","category-txdmv","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}