Chapter 4 A Brief History of the Lemon Law

If you are curious about the "why" of things, there's information in this chapter you'll enjoy.

Lemon Law is a kind of warranty law. The idea of warranties has been around for a long time.

Here is what is important to you in this chapter on the history of the California Lemon law.
• 1906 – The Uniform Sales Act: This was the first try at getting all the various commerce laws in the United States under one roof.
• 1952 – The Uniform Commercial Code (U.C.C.): This was another attempt to get all of the commerce laws in agreement.
• 1970 – The Song – Beverly Consumer Warranty Act: This is the basis for what is known all over the country as the California Lemon Law. Find out why it is the best lemon law in the country.
• 1975 – The Federal Lemon Law: The Magnuson-Moss Act: In a way this was the great equalizer. The court could force manufacturers to pay attorneys fees. You need to know more about this.

Read this! Find out why you don't have to cough up 33% of everything you recover.

• 1982 – The Tanner Consumer Protection Act: This addition to the Song-Beverly Act makes defines those key issues that every consumer who wants to use the Lemon Law should know;

Questions answered are: What is a defect? What is a reasonable number of repair attempts? It answers many other Lemon Law questions.
• 1991 – The Automotive Consumer Notification Act: Think of this one as the anti-lemon laundering law. Guess what? Just like drug dealers launder dirty money into clean, so do automobile dealerships launder lemon vehicles so they appear miraculously repaired.

You're going to want to see how it's done to protect yourself.

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