What's happening
This bill requires car dealers to disclose GPS map update fees to buyers or lessees at the time of sale or lease.
Why it matters
Consumers will have clearer information about ongoing costs. By requiring dealers to disclose GPS map update fees up front, buyers and lessees can better anticipate future expenses tied to their vehicle’s navigation system, which often go undisclosed until the update is needed.
Reduces risk of surprise charges and increases transparency. The bill mandates a clear, bold, and separately-initialed disclosure, helping prevent disputes or dissatisfaction when consumers later discover the actual costs of map updates.
Creates legal consequences for non-compliance. Dealers who fail to disclose this information may face civil penalties (up to $500 per violation) and be required to provide restitution, giving the law real enforcement power and incentivizing honest business practices.
Empowers consumer protection agencies. The Attorney General is specifically authorized to take action against violators, which could lead to quicker and more consistent enforcement and a greater deterrent against misleading sales practices.
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Disclose GPS Map Update Fees
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- Referred to consumer affairs and protection
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3092
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 26, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring dealers to disclose information regarding fees for updating maps on global positioning systems installed in motor vehicles
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 396-qq of the general business law, as added by chapter 553 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
3. Whenever a dealer sells or leases a motor vehicle with a global positioning system (GPS) installed in such motor vehicle, the dealer shall inform the purchaser or lessee of the need to periodically update the maps of the global positioning system and the dealer shall provide either the current amount it will cost the purchaser or lessee to update the maps, or a good faith estimate of the amount of such charges. The dealer shall set forth on such sales contract or lease agreement or on a separate document to be initialled by the purchaser or lessee in conspicuous boldface type, the following disclosure: "THE AMOUNT INDI- CATED ON THIS SALES CONTRACT OR LEASE AGREEMENT FOR UPDATED GLOBAL POSI- TIONING SYSTEM MAP FEES IS THE CURRENT COST FOR UPDATE ON DAY OF SALE/LEASE OR AN ESTIMATE OF FUTURE COST."
4. Where a violation of this section is alleged to have occurred, the attorney general may apply in the name of the people of the state of New York to the supreme court of the state of New York within the judicial district in which such violation is alleged to have occurred, on notice of five days, for an order enjoining or restraining the continuance of such violation. In any such proceeding the court may impose a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed five hundred dollars and order restitution to aggrieved consumers.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08580-01-7
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