N.Y. General Business Law § 810: Definitions

§ 810. Definitions. For the purposes of this article:

1. "Dealer" shall mean any person who (a) engages, in whole or in

part, in the business of buying, selling, leasing, exchanging and/or

repairing new and unused vessels and/or used vessels, or new and unused

and/or used inboard engines, inboard/outdrives or outboard motors for

vessels, and (b) has an established place of business for the sale,

lease, trade, repair and/or display of vessels, inboard engines,

inboard/outdrives or outboard motors.

2. "Distributor" shall mean any person who offers for sale, sells or

distributes one or more brands of new vessels to any new vessel dealer,

and who maintains a factory representative or who controls a person who

offers for sale, sells or distributes one or more brands of new vessels

to any new vessel dealer.

3. "Established place of business" shall mean a permanent commercial

building at which the business of a new vessel dealer is conducted,

including the display and repair of vessels.

4. "Factory representative" shall mean an agent or employee of a

manufacturer or distributor who is retained or employed for the purpose

of selling or promoting the sale of new vessels to new vessel dealers or

prospective new vessel dealers.

5. "Manufacturer" shall mean any person engaged in the business of

manufacturing or importing new and unused vessels, new and unused

inboard engines, inboard/outdrives, outboard motors, or component parts

and accessories therefor.

6. "Vessel" shall mean every description of watercraft, including an

iceboat, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on

water or ice, and shall include the hull, motor/engine, component parts,

spars, sails and accessories of such watercraft; provided, however, that

personal watercraft and dealers of personal watercraft shall not be

subject to the provisions of this article when such dealers are subject

to the provisions of article seventeen-A of the vehicle and traffic law,

as added by chapter eight hundred fifteen of the laws of nineteen

hundred eighty-three.