Section 2-A-516. Effect of Acceptance of Goods; Notice of Default;

Terms Used In N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 2-A-516

  • Consumer lease: means a lease that a lessor regularly

    engaged in the business of leasing or selling makes to a

    lessee who is an individual and who takes under the lease

    primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 2-A-103
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Finance lease: means a lease with respect to which: (i) the

    lessor does not select, manufacture, or supply the goods;

    (ii) the lessor acquires the goods or the right to possession

    and use of the goods in connection with the lease; and (iii)

    one of the following occurs: (A) the lessee receives a copy

    of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the

    right to possession and use of the goods before signing the

    lease contract; (B) the lessee's approval of the contract by

    which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to

    possession and use of the goods is a condition to

    effectiveness of the lease contract; (C) the lessee, before

    signing the lease contract, receives an accurate and complete

    statement designating the promises and warranties, and any

    disclaimers of warranties, limitations or modifications of

    remedies, or liquidated damages, including those of any third

    party, such as the manufacturer of the goods, provided to the

    lessor by the person supplying the goods in connection with

    or as part of the contract by which the lessor acquired the

    goods or the right to possession and use of the goods; or (D)

    if the lease is not a consumer lease, the lessor, before the

    lessee signs the lease contract, informs the lessee in

    writing (a) of the identity of the person supplying the goods

    to the lessor, unless the lessee has selected that person and

    directed the lessor to acquire the goods or the right to

    possession and use of the goods from that person, (b) that

    the lessee is entitled under this Article to the promises and

    warranties, including those of any third party, provided to

    the lessor by the person supplying the goods in connection

    with or as part of the contract by which the lessor acquired

    the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods,

    and (c) that the lessee may communicate with the person

    supplying the goods to the lessor and receive an accurate and

    complete statement of those promises and warranties,

    including any disclaimers and limitations of them or of

    remedies. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 2-A-103
  • Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of

    identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures

    (Section 2-A-309), but the term does not include money,

    documents, instruments, accounts, chattel paper, general

    intangibles, or minerals or the like, including oil and gas,

    before extraction. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 2-A-103
  • Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use

    of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale,

    including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or

    retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 2-A-103
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Lease agreement: means the bargain, with respect to the

    lease, of the lessor and the lessee in fact as found in their

    language or by implication from other circumstances including

    course of dealing or usage of trade or course of performance

    as provided in this Article. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 2-A-103
  • Lease contract: means the total legal obligation that

    results from the lease agreement as affected by this Article

    and any other applicable rules of law. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 2-A-103
  • Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession

    and use of goods under a lease. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 2-A-103
  • Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession

    and use of goods under a lease. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 2-A-103
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Supplier: means a person from whom a lessor buys or leases

    goods to be leased under a finance lease. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 2-A-103

Burden of Establishing Default After Acceptance;

Notice of Claim or Litigation to Person Answerable

Over.

(1) A lessee must pay rent for any goods accepted in accordance with the lease contract, with due allowance for goods rightfully rejected or not delivered.

(2) A lessee's acceptance of goods precludes rejection of the goods accepted. In the case of a finance lease, other than a consumer lease in which the supplier assisted in the preparation of the lease contract or participated in negotiating the terms of the lease contract with the lessor, if made with knowledge of a nonconformity, acceptance cannot be revoked because of it. In any other case, if made with knowledge of a nonconformity, acceptance cannot be revoked because of it unless the acceptance was on the reasonable assumption that the nonconformity would be seasonably cured. Acceptance does not of itself impair any other remedy provided by this Article or the lease agreement for nonconformity.

(3) If a tender has been accepted:

(a) within a reasonable time after the lessee discovers or should

have discovered any default, the lessee shall notify the

lessor and the supplier, if any, or be barred from any remedy

against the party not notified;

(b) except in the case of a consumer lease, within a reasonable

time after the lessee receives notice of litigation for

infringement or the like (Section 2-A-211) the lessee shall

notify the lessor or be barred from any remedy over for

liability established by the litigation; and

(c) the burden is on the lessee to establish any default.

(4) If a lessee is sued for breach of a warranty or other obligation for which a lessor or a supplier is answerable over the following apply:

(a) the lessee may give the lessor or the supplier, or both,

written notice of the litigation. If the notice states that

the person notified may come in and defend and that if the

person notified does not do so that person will be bound in

any action against that person by the lessee by any

determination of fact common to the two litigations, then

unless the person notified after seasonable receipt of the

notice does come in and defend that person is so bound; and

(b) the lessor or the supplier may demand in writing that the

lessee turn over control of the litigation including

settlement if the claim is one for infringement or the like

(Section 2-A-211) or else be barred from any remedy over. If

the demand states that the lessor or the supplier agrees to

bear all expense and to satisfy any adverse judgment, then

unless the lessee after seasonable receipt of the demand does

turn over control the lessee is so barred.

(5) Subsections (3) and (4) apply to any obligation of a lessee to hold the lessor or the supplier harmless against infringement or the like (Section 2-A-211).