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367.860 Definitions for KRS 367.865.
As used in KRS 367.865 unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Buyer" means any resident person who buys or contracts to buy a new motor
vehicle in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
(2) "Manufacturer" means any person, resident or nonresident, who manufactures
or assembles new motor vehicles which are sold in the Commonwealth of
Kentucky.
(3) "Motor vehicle" means any two (2) axle, motor-driven vehicle with at least four
(4) wheels which is required to be registered or licensed in the Commonwealth
of Kentucky before being operated upon the highways and is used or bought
for use primarily for personal, family, or household purposes.
(4) "New motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle which, after its final assembly, is
either in the possession of the manufacturer, factory branch or distributor, or an
authorized dealer operating under a franchise with the manufacturer, factory
branch or distributor, and the legal or equitable title to which has never been
the subject of a sale or transfer other than to another dealer operating under a
similar franchise with the same manufacturer, factory branch or distributor.
(5) "System" means an informal dispute resolution procedure adopted by each
manufacturer to resolve questions of law and fact relating to disputes between
the buyer and the manufacturer arising within the first two (2) years or
twenty-five thousand (25,000) miles of the buyer's ownership, whichever
occurs first, including but not limited to unsatisfactory warranty repairs of the
buyer's motor vehicle, mechanical malfunctions of the buyer's motor vehicle, or
other problems relating to the performance of the buyer's motor vehicle.
Effective:July 15, 1982
History: Created 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 193, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982.
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