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Chapter 4: A Brief History of Lemon Law 1982: The Tanner Consumer Protection Act Substantial impairment to use, value, or safety is defined. California Assemblywoman Sally Tanner first intro-duced this key measure in 1980. The Tanner Act is part of the Song-Beverly Act, but its provisions apply specifically to motor vehicles. The law defines guidelines for a reasonable number of repair attempts.3 It also defines nonconformity to mean a nonconformity that substantially impairs the use, value, or safety of the motor vehicle to the buyer or lessee. The Tanner Act has become the model for lemon laws in other states. Today, all fifty states have enacted lemon laws. It is no accident that all of these state legislatures, as well as Congress, have found it necessary to protect citizens in this way. 1991: Automotive Consumer Notification Act California was at the cutting edge of consumer advocacy again. This Act was added to California’s lemon law to reduce what is known as lemon laundering.4 Some auto manufacturers were trying to resell the lemons they repurchased to unsuspecting used car buyers. To prevent this, manufacturers are now required to brand the titles of defective vehicles to indicate that they are lemon law buybacks. Before reselling a lemon law buyback, manufacturers are required to do the following: • Submit the vehicle’s title to the Department of Motor Vehicles for branding • Affix a permanent decal to the vehicle itself, indicating that it was a lemon law buyback

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