{"id":932,"date":"2018-01-09T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/01\/09\/tx-attorney-general-opinion-watch-manufacturers-vs-dealers\/"},"modified":"2018-01-09T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T22:39:00","slug":"tx-attorney-general-opinion-watch-manufacturers-vs-dealers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/tx-attorney-general-opinion-watch-manufacturers-vs-dealers\/","title":{"rendered":"TX Attorney General Opinion Watch. Manufacturers vs. Dealers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Department of Motor Vehicles has requested an Attorney General opinion as to whether a dealer that performs manufacturer warranty repair violates the Occupations Code.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why?<\/strong> A manufacturer or distributor cannot act like a dealer under Texas law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Again, why?<\/strong>\u00a0Texas Automobile Dealer Association filed a complaint with TX DMV claiming Cummins South Plains LLC violated this separation by performing manufacturer warranty repair work on diesel engines<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where is the legislative clean up likely?\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Clear up what the agency sees as a conflict between\u00a0Occupations Code Chapter 2301that \u00a0lays out numerous sections where dealers&#8217; &#8220;warranty work&#8221; rights are protected (primarily in Subchapters A- &#8220;General Provisions&#8221;, F &#8211; &#8220;License Requirements&#8221;, and I &#8211; &#8220;Warranties: Reimbursement of Dealer&#8221;) \u00a0&amp;\u00a0Subchampter M that says\u00a0manufacturers are obligated by the same statute to ensure that their warranty is honored.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/rq\/2018\/pdf\/RQ0206KP.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">TX Attorney General Opinion Request 0206-KP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Department of Motor Vehicles has requested an Attorney General opinion as to whether a dealer that performs manufacturer warranty repair violates the Occupations Code.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why?<\/strong> A manufacturer or distributor cannot act like a dealer under Texas law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Again, why?<\/strong>\u00a0Texas Automobile Dealer Association filed a complaint with TX DMV claiming Cummins South Plains LLC violated this separation by performing manufacturer warranty repair work on diesel engines<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where is the legislative clean up likely?\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,17,26,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-issue","category-motor-vehicles","category-regulatory-trend","category-trucking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","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=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}