{"id":826,"date":"2017-08-01T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/08\/01\/texas-a-g-opinion-manufacturers-and-dealerships-3-points-of-clarity-from-the-a-g\/"},"modified":"2017-08-01T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T15:44:00","slug":"texas-a-g-opinion-manufacturers-and-dealerships-3-points-of-clarity-from-the-a-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/texas-a-g-opinion-manufacturers-and-dealerships-3-points-of-clarity-from-the-a-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A.G. Opinion. Manufacturers and Dealerships. 3 Points of Clarity from the A.G."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/op\/2017\/kp0156.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">Texas Attorney General Opinion KP- 0156<\/a>\u00a0lays down the law on what constitutes when a manufacturer owns a dealership in Texas. The nuts and bolts of the opinion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A company that owns a manufacturer, but exercises no control over the manufacturer, &amp; the company and manufacturer do not have common control, it\u00a0does not trigger the manufacturer dealer prohibition in Texas<\/li>\n<li>Even, if the corporate relationship\u00a0squeak by on not exercising control over the manufacturer, it can still trigger the prohibition by being an affiliate.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>If a company has full ownership over a manufacturer then it runs afoul with the Texas prohibition from manfucaturer dealers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>To determine if the prohibition is triggered by the &#8220;affiliate&#8221; standard, we look to the common defintion of affilaite because the Legialature has many definitions of affiliate. Affiliate common defintion requires ownership AND control<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/op\/2017\/kp0156.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">Texas Attorney General Opinion KP- 0156<\/a>\u00a0lays down the law on what constitutes when a manufacturer owns a dealership in Texas. The nuts and bolts of the opinion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A company that owns a manufacturer, but exercises no control over the manufacturer, &amp; the company and manufacturer do not have common control, it\u00a0does not trigger the manufacturer dealer prohibition in Texas<\/li>\n<li>Even, if the corporate relationship\u00a0squeak by on not exercising control over the manufacturer, it can still trigger the\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attorney-general","category-motor-vehicles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","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=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}