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Oregon · Through 2025 Edition

ORS 650.320: Dealership agreement.

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  1. 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment
  2. 50. Trade Regulations and Practices
  3. Chapter 650 — Franchise Transactions

(1) A dealership agreement shall:

      (a) Contain a provision that the law of this state governs the agreement;

      (b) Assign the dealer an area of sales responsibility;

      (c) If the dealer is an individual, include the designation of a member of the dealer’s family to succeed to the dealer’s interests in the dealer’s business and dealership agreement upon the dealer’s death, incapacity or retirement; and

      (d) Inform the dealer of the dealer’s obligations:

      (A) To perform warranty service;

      (B) To prepare products for delivery to the consumer; and

      (C) To deliver products to the consumer.

      (2) Upon a dealer’s request, a grantor shall reconsider the scope of the dealer’s area of sales responsibility once a year.

      (3) During the term of a dealership agreement, a grantor may not:

      (a) Change the dealer’s area of sales responsibility; or

      (b) Authorize another dealer to sell or lease the same line make in the area of sales responsibility.

      (4) Subsection (3)(b) of this section does not apply if:

      (a) Good cause exists to authorize another dealer in the same area of sales responsibility; and

      (b) The area of sales responsibility will support the existing dealer and the new dealer.

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