New Jersey § 56:10-16

§ 56:10-16.

a. “ Committee ” means the Motor Vehicle Franchise Committee established in section 2 of this act; 1 b. “ Franchise ” means a written arrangement for a definite or indefinite period in which a motor

vehicle franchisor grants a right or license to use a trade name, trademark, service

mark or related characteristics and in which there is a community of interest in the

marketing of new motor vehicles at retail, by lease agreement or otherwise; c. “ Franchisee ” means a natural person, corporation, partnership or entity to whom a franchise is

granted by a motor vehicle franchisor; d. “ Motor vehicle ” or “ new motor vehicle ” means only a newly manufactured motor vehicle, except a nonconventional type of

motor vehicle, and includes all such vehicles propelled otherwise than by muscular

power, and motorcycles, trailers and tractors, excepting such vehicles as run only

upon rails or tracks and motorized bicycles; a “ nonconventional type of motor vehicle ” means every vehicle not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons

or property and only incidentally operated or moved over a highway; e. “ Motor vehicle franchisor ” means a natural person, corporation, partnership or entity engaged in the business

of manufacturing, assembling or distributing new motor vehicles, who will under normal

business conditions during the year, manufacture, assemble or distribute at least

10 new motor vehicles; f. “ Relevant market area ” means a geographic area 14 miles in radius from a proposed franchise or business as it relates to the grant, reopening or reactivation of a franchise or the establishment,

reopening or reactivation of a business; and a geographic area 8 miles in radius

from a relocated franchise or business , but if there are no existing franchisees in the same line make within an 8-mile

radius of the relocated franchise or business, then the relevant market area includes the next closest existing

franchisee in the same line make within a 14-mile radius. Determining whether an existing franchisee is within the relevant market area of a

proposed or relocated franchise or business, and ascertaining any other measurement

of distance, shall be made by measuring the distance between the nearest surveyed

boundary line of the existing franchise and the nearest surveyed boundary line of

the proposed or relocated franchise or business. 1

L.1982, c. 156 (N.J.S.A. § 56:10-17).