A Brief History of the Lemon Law

Lemon Law is a kind of warranty law. The idea of warranties has been around for a long time.

    Here is what is important to you in this chapter on the history of the California Lemon law.
    1906 – The Uniform Sales Act: This was the first try at getting all the various commerce laws in the United States under one roof.
    1952 – The Uniform Commercial Code (U.C.C.): This was another attempt to get all of the commerce laws in agreement.
    1970 – The Song – Beverly Consumer Warranty Act: This is the basis for what is known all over the country as the California Lemon Law. Find out why it is the best lemon law in the country.
    1975 – The Federal Lemon Law: The Magnuson-Moss Act: In a way this was the great equalizer. The court could force manufacturers to pay attorneys fees. You need to know more about this.

    1982 – The Tanner Consumer Protection Act: This addition to the Song-Beverly Act makes defines those key issues that every consumer who wants to use the Lemon Law should know;

    Questions answered are: What is a defect? What is a reasonable number of repair attempts? It answers many other Lemon Law questions.
    1991 – The Automotive Consumer Notification Act: Think of this one as the anti-lemon laundering law. Guess what? Just like drug dealers launder dirty money into clean, so do automobile dealerships launder lemon vehicles so they appear miraculously repaired.