GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1437

Short Title:  Ads for Car Repairs/Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representative Capps.

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Referred to:  Ways and Means, if favorable, Appropriations.

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April 29,1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REQUIRE TRUTH IN ADVERTISING CERTAIN COSTS OF SERVICING OR REPAIRING PRIVATE PASSENGER VEHICLES AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO PUBLICIZE THIS REQUIREMENT.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Chapter 66 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new article to read:
“ARTICLE 35.
"Truthful Advertisements of Costs of Servicing or Repairing
Private Passenger Vehicles.
"§ 66-280.  Advertisements of servicing or repairing private passenger vehicles.
(a)	Any business that services or repairs private passenger vehicles and advertises the costs of certain services or repairs of private passenger vehicles shall disclose in the advertisement all costs, except any fees and taxes that are required by law, that a consumer may be charged.
(b)	If a business that services or repairs private passenger vehicles fails to comply with the requirements of this section, then, upon written notice to that business, the consumer is required to pay only those charges disclosed in the advertisement, plus any fees and taxes that are required by law.
(c)	A violation of this section shall constitute an unfair trade practice under G.S. 75-1.1.
(d)	For purposes of this section, ‘private passenger vehicle' has the same meaning as in G.S. 20-4.01."
Section 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Justice, Consumer Protection Section, the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year to publicize the provisions of Article 35 of Chapter 66 of the General Statutes, as enacted in Section 1 of this act.
Section 3.  Section 2 of this act becomes effective July 1, 1999.  The remainder of this act is effective when the act becomes law.