For the purposes of this article:
- 1. "Dealer" shall mean any person who (a) engages, in whole or in part, in the business of buying, selling, leasing, exchanging and/or repairing new and unused vessels and/or used vessels, or new and unused and/or used inboard engines, inboard/outdrives or outboard motors for vessels, and (b) has an established place of business for the sale, lease, trade, repair and/or display of vessels, inboard engines, inboard/outdrives or outboard motors.
- 2. "Distributor" shall mean any person who offers for sale, sells or distributes one or more brands of new vessels to any new vessel dealer, and who maintains a factory representative or who controls a person who offers for sale, sells or distributes one or more brands of new vessels to any new vessel dealer.
- 3. "Established place of business" shall mean a permanent commercial building at which the business of a new vessel dealer is conducted, including the display and repair of vessels.
- 4. "Factory representative" shall mean an agent or employee of a manufacturer or distributor who is retained or employed for the purpose of selling or promoting the sale of new vessels to new vessel dealers or prospective new vessel dealers.
- 5. "Manufacturer" shall mean any person engaged in the business of manufacturing or importing new and unused vessels, new and unused inboard engines, inboard/outdrives, outboard motors, or component parts and accessories therefor.
- 6. "Vessel" shall mean every description of watercraft, including an iceboat, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water or ice, and shall include the hull, motor/engine, component parts, spars, sails and accessories of such watercraft; provided, however, that personal watercraft and dealers of personal watercraft shall not be subject to the provisions of this article when such dealers are subject to the provisions of article seventeen-A of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter eight hundred fifteen of the laws of nineteen hundred eighty-three.