Farm equipment manufacturers, certain acts prohibited
This law lists things that farm equipment makers are not allowed to do to their dealers. They cannot force a dealer to take equipment the dealer did not ask for. They cannot make a dealer buy extra goods or services just to get the equipment they want. They cannot pressure a dealer to refuse to buy from a competing equipment maker. They also cannot charge different prices for the same equipment to dealers in similar situations, unless the price difference is due to different shipping or manufacturing costs.
407.844. Farm equipment s, certain acts prohibited. — No farm equipment manufacturer shall:
(1) , or attempt to coerce, any farm equipment to accept of any farm equipment, parts or , which such farm equipment dealer has not voluntarily ordered;
(2) To condition or attempt to of any farm equipment on a requirement that the farm equipment dealer also purchase any other goods or services but nothing contained in sections 407.838 to 407.848 shall prevent the farm equipment manufacturer from requiring the dealer to purchase all parts reasonably necessary to maintain the quality of operation in the field of any farm equipment used in the ;
(3) To coerce or attempt to coerce any farm equipment dealer into a refusal to purchase the farm equipment d by another farm equipment manufacturer;
(4) To charged for farm equipment of sold by the farm equipment manufacturer to farm equipment dealers, but nothing contained in sections 407.838 to 407.848 shall prevent which make only for difference in the cost of manufacture, sale or delivery resulting from the differing methods or quantities in which such farm equipment is sold or delivered, by the farm equipment manufacturer.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1987 S.B. 35)
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