                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COERCION OF RETAIL DEALER BY MANUFACTURER OR DISTRIBUTOR WITH RESPECT TO RETAIL
INSTALLMENT SALES CONTRACTS PROHIBITED; PENALTY (§ 46.2-1573.4)

A. It shall be unlawful for any manufacturer or distributor, or any officer,
agent, or representative of either, to coerce or attempt to coerce any retail
recreational vehicle dealer or prospective retail recreational vehicle dealer in
the Commonwealth to sell, assign, or transfer any retail installment sales
contract, obtained by the dealer in connection with the sale by him in the
Commonwealth of recreational vehicles manufactured or sold by the manufacturer
or distributor, to a specified finance company or class of finance companies or
to any other specified persons by any of the following:

   1. Any statement, suggestion, promise, or threat that the manufacturer or
   distributor will in any manner benefit or injure the dealer, whether the
   statement, suggestion, threat, or promise is expressed or implied or made
   directly or indirectly.

   2. Any act that will benefit or injure the dealer.

   3. Any contract, or any expressed or implied offer of contract, made directly
   or indirectly to the dealer, for handling the recreational vehicle on the
   condition that the dealer sell, assign, or transfer his retail installment
   sales contract on the recreational vehicle, in the Commonwealth, to a
   specified finance company or class of finance companies or to any other
   specified person.

   4. Any expressed or implied statement or representation made directly or
   indirectly that the dealer is under any obligation whatsoever to sell, assign,
   or transfer any of his retail sales contracts in the Commonwealth on
   recreational vehicles manufactured or sold by the manufacturer or distributor
   to a finance company, class of finance companies, or other specified person,
   because of any relationship or affiliation between the manufacturer or
   distributor and the finance company or companies or the specified person.

B. Any such statements, threats, promises, acts, contracts, or offers of
contracts, when their effect may be to lessen or eliminate competition or tend
to create a monopoly, are declared unfair trade practices and unfair methods of
competition and are prohibited.

C. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a
Class 1 misdemeanor.

HISTORY: 1995, cc. 767, 816, § 46.2-1975; 1996, cc. 1043, 1052; 2015, c. 615.