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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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