SENATE DOCKET, NO. 788        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 167

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to protecting the consumer rights of wheelchair owners..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Subsection (C)(1) of Section 107 of Chapter 93 of the General Laws of Massachusetts, appearing in the 2004 official edition is hereby amended by inserting in Line 79, at the end of the sentence, the following sentence:- The consumer may have the wheelchair repaired by any customized wheelchair dealer or customized wheelchair lessor, with all collateral and repair costs to be assumed by the manufacturer of the wheelchair.