Sec. 45.27.110. - Nonconforming products. - Alaska Statutes

(a) A manufacturer of a nonconforming product shall, during the original warranty period, pay an authorized dealer to complete factory-recommended warranty repairs, solutions, and procedures to cure factory warranty problems with a nonconforming product. The manufacturer shall make the payment in accordance with the standard warranty service claim procedures and methods of the industry and with AS 45.27.100 - 45.27.220.

(b) If a part that is necessary to repair a nonconforming product of a nonconformity that is covered under a manufacturer's warranty is not in an authorized dealer's inventory when the nonconforming product is brought to the authorized dealer for repair, the manufacturer of the product shall provide the authorized dealer with the part. The manufacturer shall provide the part as soon as possible and may not charge for freight or handling. This subsection applies to a manufacturer whose products are sold in the state through an authorized dealer.

(c) The manufacturer of a nonconforming product shall pay the cost for transporting a replacement for the nonconforming product from the manufacturer to the authorized dealer who sold the nonconforming product to the ultimate purchaser or the authorized dealer who is located nearest to the ultimate purchaser, whichever of the two authorized dealers the ultimate purchaser chooses. The manufacturer is not required to pay the transportation cost from the authorized dealer to the ultimate purchaser or from the ultimate purchaser to the authorized dealer.

(d) In this section, "nonconforming product" means a product that has a nonconformity.