Sec. 42-110q. Service contract agreements. Fee disclosure required.
Sec. 42-110q. Service contract agreements. Fee disclosure required. (a) For the
purposes of this section: (i) "Service contractor" is defined as a person engaged in the
business of repairing, overhauling, adjusting, assembling or disassembling consumer
goods; (ii) "person" means a natural person, corporation, limited liability company,
trust, partnership, incorporated or unincorporated association, and any other legal entity;
(iii) "consumer goods" means any article purchased, leased or rented primarily for personal, family or commercial purpose.
(b) It shall be an unfair or deceptive trade practice, in violation of this chapter,
for any service contractor to fail to disclose to a prospective customer, at the time the
prospective customer makes initial contact by any means with the service contractor, that
a service call made by the service contractor to the home or business of the prospective
customer will require the payment by the prospective customer to the service contractor
of separate and distinct fees for the following, if such is the case: (i) Service charge,
defined as the fee charged by the service contractor to respond to the request for services;
(ii) labor charge.
(P.A. 77-464, S. 1, 2; P.A. 95-79, S. 155, 189.)
History: P.A. 95-79 redefined "person" to include a limited liability company, effective May 31, 1995.
Cited. 186 C. 507.
Cited. 41 CA 754.
Subsec. (a):
Cited. 24 CA 85.