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The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) has adopted new rules for used car dealers, requiring all licensed dealers to make additional disclosures to consumers and creating a new consumer bill of rights for the industry. The new rules went into effect on June 24, 2018.

Under the new rules, dealers must provide a financing statement in a prescribed form prior to the execution of any retail installment contract (RIC). … Continue Reading

The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) has proposed new rules for used car dealers that would require dealers to provide the following disclosures to buyers:

  • A financing disclosure that includes the “sale terms,” “financing terms,” and pricing information for add-on products and services.  The financing terms include three APRs: “the Annual Percentage Rate (APR)” (presumably, the contract APR),  the “lowest APR offered to buyer by any finance company for loan with same term and down payment,” and the “APR offered to buyer by selected finance company”
  • A disclosure of the buyer’s right to cancel

The proposal would also require dealers to conspicuously post a “Used Car Consumer Bill of Rights” in any office or area of the dealer’s location where consumers negotiate and execute sales contracts and maintain an “automobile contract cancellation option report” that must be made available to the DCA upon request.… Continue Reading