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This law was first created in 1996. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 1043<\/a> and 1052<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2015, chapter 615<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":231717,"object_type":"law","relational_id":65676,"identifier":"46.2-1573.32","token":"46.2\/IV\/15\/7.4\/46.2-1573.32","url":"\/46.2-1573.32\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/46.2-1573.32\/","token":"46.2\/IV\/15\/7.4\/46.2-1573.32","dublin_core":{"Title":"Discontinuation of distributors","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 46.2-1573.32","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

If the contract<\/span> between a distributor<\/span> and a manufacturer<\/span> or importer is terminated or otherwise discontinued, all franchises<\/span> granted to motorcycle<\/span> dealers<\/span> in the Commonwealth by that distributor<\/span> shall continue in full force and shall not be affected by the discontinuance, except that the manufacturer<\/span>, factory branch<\/span>, distributor<\/span>, representative, or other person who undertakes to distribute motorcycles<\/span> of the same line-make<\/span> or the same motorcycles<\/span> of a renamed line-make<\/span> shall be substituted for the discontinued distributor<\/span> under the existing motorcycle<\/span> dealer<\/span> franchises<\/span>, and those franchises<\/span> shall be modified accordingly.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDISCONTINUATION OF DISTRIBUTORS (\u00a7 46.2-1573.32)\n\nIf the contract between a distributor and a manufacturer or importer is\nterminated or otherwise discontinued, all franchises granted to motorcycle\ndealers in the Commonwealth by that distributor shall continue in full force and\nshall not be affected by the discontinuance, except that the manufacturer,\nfactory branch, distributor, representative, or other person who undertakes to\ndistribute motorcycles of the same line-make or the same motorcycles of a\nrenamed line-make shall be substituted for the discontinued distributor under\nthe existing motorcycle dealer franchises, and those franchises shall be\nmodified accordingly.\n\nHISTORY: 1996, cc. 1043, 1052, \u00a7 46.2-1993.69; 2015, c. 615.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}