41-4-2 - Threat to discontinue sales to retail seller prima facie evidence of violation.
41-4-2. Threat to discontinue sales to retail seller prima facie evidence of violation.
Any threat, expressed or implied, made directly or indirectly to any person engaged in thebusiness of selling motor vehicles at retail in this state by any person engaged, either directly orindirectly, in the manufacture or distribution of motor vehicles, that such person will discontinueor cease to sell, or refuse to enter into a contract to sell, or will terminate a contract to sell motorvehicles, whether patented or unpatented, to such person who is so engaged in the business ofselling motor vehicles at retail, unless such person finances the purchase or sale of any one ornumber of motor vehicles only with or through a designated person or class of persons or sellsand assigns the conditional sales contracts, chattel mortgages or leases arising from his retail salesof motor vehicles or any one or number thereof only to a designated person or class of personsshall be prima facie evidence of the fact that such person so engaged in the manufacture ordistribution of motor vehicles has sold or intends to sell the same on the condition or with theagreement or understanding prohibited in Section 41-4-1.
No Change Since 1953