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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 605
BY SENATOR MARTINY
COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS. Provides relative to the Louisiana Motor Commission.
(8/1/14)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 32:1261(A)(1)(m) and to repeal R.S. 32:1270.1(1)(j) and2
1270.11(1)(i), relative to the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission; to provide3
relative to unauthorized acts of a manufacturer, a distributor, a wholesaler,4
distributor branch, or factory branch of motor vehicles, marine products, and5
motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles or any officer, agent or representative thereof;6
and to provide for related matters.7
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:8
Section 1. R.S. 32:1261(A)(1)(m) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:9
ยง1261. Unauthorized acts10
A. It shall be a violation of this Chapter:11
(1) For a manufacturer, a distributor, a wholesaler, distributor branch, factory12
branch, converter or officer, agent, or other representative thereof:13
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(m) To fail to compensate its dealers for the work and services they are15
required to perform in connection with the dealer's delivery and preparation16
obligations according to the terms of compensation that shall be filed with the17 SB NO. 605
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commission on or before October first of each year. The commission shall find the1
compensation to be reasonable or the manufacturer shall remedy any deficiencies.2
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Section 2. R.S. 32:1270.1(1)(j) and 1270.11(1)(i) are hereby repealed.4
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Michelle Ducharme.
DIGEST
Martiny (SB 605)
Present law provides for the regulations of new cars, marine products, and motorcycles and
all-terrain vehicles by the La. Motor Vehicle Commission (commission).
Present law provides that it is a violation for a manufacturer, a distributor, a wholesaler,
distributor branch, or facility branch of new cars, marine products, motorcycles and all-
terrain vehicles or any officer, agent, or representative thereof to fail to compensate its
dealers for the work and services that are required to be performed in connection with the
dealer's delivery and preparation of obligations according to the terms of compensation that
shall be filed with the commission on or before October first of each year. The commission
shall find the compensation to be reasonable or the manufacturer shall remedy any
deficiencies.
Proposed law repeals present law as it relates to marine products and motorcycles and all-
terrain vehicles.
Proposed law, as it relates to new cars, revises the filing requirement with the commission.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Amends R.S. 32:1261(A)(1)(m); repeals R.S. 32:1270.1(1)(j) and 1127.11(1)(i))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer
Protection, and International Affairs to the original bill
1. Adds language relative to new cars and motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles.