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PUBLIC LAWS OF MAINE
First Special Session of the 118th

CHAPTER 497
H.P. 1340 - L.D. 1889

An Act to Provide Warranty Reimbursement Protection for Retailers

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

     Sec. 1. 11 MRSA §2-316, sub-§5, as amended by PL 1975, c. 320, is further amended to read:

     (5) The provisions of subsections (2), (3) and (4) shall do not apply to sales of consumer goods or services. Any language, oral or written, used by a seller or manufacturer of consumer goods and services, which that attempts to exclude or modify any implied warranties or of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose or to exclude or modify the consumer's remedies for breach of those warranties, shall be is unenforceable. Any language, oral or written, used by a prior seller or manufacturer of consumer goods and services that attempts to exclude or modify the warranty or reimbursement remedy of a retail seller of consumer goods and services who provides reimbursement or return to a consumer as required to honor an implied warranty of merchantability due to a defect for which that prior seller or manufacturer is liable under section 2-314 or 2-315 is unenforceable. Consumer goods and services are those new or used goods and services, including mobile homes, which that are used or bought primarily for personal, family or household purposes.

Effective September 19, 1997, unless otherwise indicated.

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