Renewal floor

Definition

The renewal term below which the automatic-renewal statutes stop applying, where they have one at all.

Why It Matters

The floor is the renewal period, not the billing period, and only some of these rules have one. Florida regulates a renewal for a specified period of more than one month where that renewal carries the contract past six months from its start, and adds a notice duty only once the term runs twelve months or more. New York's general service-contract rule stops at a renewal period of one month or less, but its consumer renewal statute carries no term floor for disclosure, consent or cancellation, and only the reminder notice waits for an initial paid year. Wisconsin's renewal statute is a business-contract statute that excludes services bought for personal, family or household purposes, so a residential route sits outside it whatever the term. California works like New York. Read the renewal term before assuming a recurring book is either covered or clear.