This text of North Dakota § 51-20.1-02 (Retail dealers may recover cost of equipment and parts upon discontinuance of contract with distributor) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering North Dakota primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
discontinuance of contract with distributor.
If a retail dealer has entered into a written contract with a distributor in which the retail
dealer agrees to maintain a stock of heavy construction equipment, repair parts, or both heavy
construction equipment and repair parts, and either the distributor or the retail dealer desires to
cancel or discontinue the contract, the distributor shall pay to the retail dealer, unless the retail
dealer desires to keep the equipment or repair parts, the following amounts:
1.A sum equal to one hundred percent of the net cost of all unused, complete heavy
construction equipment.
2.Eighty-five percent of the current net prices on repair parts, including the superseded
parts listed in current price lists or catalogs, if the superseded parts have previously
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discontinuance of contract with distributor.
If a retail dealer has entered into a written contract with a distributor in which the retail
dealer agrees to maintain a stock of heavy construction equipment, repair parts, or both heavy
construction equipment and repair parts, and either the distributor or the retail dealer desires to
cancel or discontinue the contract, the distributor shall pay to the retail dealer, unless the retail
dealer desires to keep the equipment or repair parts, the following amounts:
1. A sum equal to one hundred percent of the net cost of all unused, complete heavy
construction equipment.
2. Eighty-five percent of the current net prices on repair parts, including the superseded
parts listed in current price lists or catalogs, if the superseded parts have previously
been purchased from the distributor, and were in the retail dealer's inventory on the
date of cancellation or discontinuance of the contract, or were thereafter received by
the retail dealer from the distributor.
3. A sum equal to five percent of the current net price of all parts returned as
reimbursement for handling, packing, and loading of those parts.
4. Any freight charges on the equipment or repair parts paid by the retail dealer.
When a distributor has made payment in accordance with this section, title to the heavy
construction equipment and repair parts shall pass to the distributor, and the distributor is
entitled to possession of the heavy construction equipment and repair parts. This section is
supplemental to any provisions contained in any contract between the retail dealer and the
distributor relating to the return of heavy construction equipment and repair parts. Thus, the
retail dealer can elect to pursue the retail dealer's remedy under this section, or under the
contract relating to return of heavy construction equipment and repair parts. An election by a
retail dealer to pursue a contractual remedy does not bar the retail dealer's right to the remedy
provided by this section with respect to those pieces of heavy construction equipment and repair
parts not affected by the contract remedy.
The provisions of this section apply to every contract now in effect which has no stated
expiration date, and to all other contracts entered into after June 30, 1981. Contracts in force
and effect on June 30, 1981, which by their terms will terminate on a date subsequent to
June 30, 1981, shall be governed by the law existing prior to July 1, 1981.