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1    AN ACT concerning business.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Motor Vehicle Franchise Act is amended by
5changing Section 10.1 as follows:
 
6    (815 ILCS 710/10.1)  (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 760.1)
7    Sec. 10.1. (a) As used in this Section, "motorcycle" means
8every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the
9rider and designed to travel with 3 or less wheels in contact
10with the ground, excluding farm, garden, and lawn equipment,
11and including off-highway vehicles.
12    (b) It shall be deemed a violation for a manufacturer, a
13distributor, a wholesaler, a distributor branch or division, or
14officer, agent or other representative thereof:
15        (1) To require a motorcycle franchisee to participate
16    in a retail financing plan or retail leasing plan or to
17    participate in any retail consumer insurance plan.
18        (2) To own, to operate or to control any motorcycle
19    dealership in this State for a period longer than 2 years.
20        (3) Whenever any motorcycle dealer enters into a
21    franchise agreement, evidenced by a contract, with a
22    wholesaler, manufacturer or distributor wherein the
23    franchisee agrees to maintain an inventory and the contract

 

 

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1    is terminated by the wholesaler, manufacturer,
2    distributor, or franchisee, then the franchisee may
3    require the repurchase of the inventory as provided for in
4    this Act. If the franchisee has any outstanding debts to
5    the wholesaler, manufacturer or distributor then the
6    repurchase amount may be credited to the franchisee's
7    account. The franchise agreement shall either expressly or
8    by operation of law have as part of its terms a security
9    agreement whereby the wholesaler, manufacturer, or
10    distributor agrees to and does grant a security interest to
11    the motorcycle dealer in the repurchased inventory to
12    secure payment of the repurchase amount to the dealer. The
13    perfection, priority, and other matters relating to the
14    security interest shall be governed by Article 9 of the
15    Uniform Commercial Code. The provisions of this Section
16    shall not be construed to affect in any way any security
17    interest that any financial institution, person,
18    wholesaler, manufacturer, or distributor may have in the
19    inventory of the motorcycle dealer.
20        (4) To require a motorcycle dealer to utilize
21    manufacturer approved floor fixtures for the display of any
22    product that is not a product of the manufacturer.
23        (5) To require a motorcycle dealer to purchase lighting
24    fixtures that are to be installed in the dealership only
25    from the manufacturer's approved vendors.
26        (6) To require a motorcycle dealer to relocate to a new

 

 

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1    or alternate facility.
2    (c) The provisions of this Section 10.1 are applicable to
3all new or existing motorcycle franchisees and franchisors and
4are in addition to the other rights and remedies provided in
5this Act, and, in the case of a conflict with other provisions
6contained in this Act, with respect to motorcycle franchises,
7this Section shall be controlling.
8    (d) The filing of a timely protest by a motorcycle
9franchise before the Motor Vehicle Review Board as prescribed
10by Sections 12 and 29 of this Act, shall stay the effective
11date of a proposed additional franchise or selling agreement,
12or the effective date of a proposed motorcycle dealership
13relocation, or the effective date of a cancellation,
14termination or modification, or extend the expiration date of a
15franchise or selling agreement by refusal to honor succession
16to ownership or refusal to approve a sale or transfer pending a
17final determination of the issues in the hearing.
18(Source: P.A. 91-142, eff. 7-16-99.)