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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,
14or officer, 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) (Blank).
21        (4) To require a motorcycle dealer to utilize
22    manufacturer approved floor fixtures for the display of
23    any product that is not a product of the manufacturer.

 

 

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1        (5) To require a motorcycle dealer to purchase
2    lighting fixtures that are to be installed in the
3    dealership only from the manufacturer's approved vendors.
4        (6) To require a motorcycle dealer to relocate to a
5    new or alternate facility.
6        (7) To coerce or require any motorcycle dealer to
7    construct improvements to the dealer's facility at a
8    substantial cost to the dealer or to condition any
9    motorcycle dealer's eligibility for payments under any
10    discount, credit, rebate, sales incentive, or similar
11    program on the dealer constructing improvements to the
12    dealer's facility at a substantial cost to the dealer. As
13    used in this paragraph (7), "substantial cost" means an
14    amount equal to or greater than 10% of a motorcycle
15    dealer's average annual net profits for the 3 years
16    preceding the proposed improvements to that dealer's
17    facility.
18    Whenever any motorcycle dealer enters into a franchise
19agreement, evidenced by a contract, with a wholesaler,
20manufacturer, or distributor wherein the franchisee agrees to
21maintain an inventory and the contract is terminated by the
22wholesaler, manufacturer, distributor, or franchisee, then the
23franchisee may require the repurchase of the inventory as
24provided for in this Act. If the franchisee has any
25outstanding debts to the wholesaler, manufacturer, or
26distributor, then the repurchase amount may be credited to the

 

 

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1franchisee's account. The franchise agreement shall either
2expressly or by operation of law have as part of its terms a
3security agreement whereby the wholesaler, manufacturer, or
4distributor agrees to and does grant a security interest to
5the motorcycle dealer in the repurchased inventory to secure
6payment of the repurchase amount to the dealer. The
7perfection, priority, and other matters relating to the
8security interest shall be governed by Article 9 of the
9Uniform Commercial Code. The provisions of this Section shall
10not be construed to affect in any way any security interest
11that any financial institution, person, wholesaler,
12manufacturer, or distributor may have in the inventory of the
13motorcycle dealer.
14    (c) The provisions of this Section 10.1 are applicable to
15all new or existing motorcycle franchisees and franchisers and
16are in addition to the other rights and remedies provided in
17this Act, and, in the case of a conflict with other provisions
18contained in this Act, with respect to motorcycle franchises,
19this Section shall be controlling.
20    (d) The filing of a timely protest by a motorcycle
21franchise before the Motor Vehicle Review Board as prescribed
22by Sections 12 and 29 of this Act, shall stay the effective
23date of a proposed additional franchise or selling agreement,
24or the effective date of a proposed motorcycle dealership
25relocation, or the effective date of a cancellation,
26termination, or modification, or extend the expiration date of

 

 

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1a franchise or selling agreement by refusal to honor
2succession to ownership or refusal to approve a sale or
3transfer pending a final determination of the issues in the
4hearing.
5(Source: P.A. 100-863, eff. 8-14-18.)
 
6    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
7becoming law.