Requires all state agencies and departments to accept credit cards, debit cards, prepaid cards, money orders, and personal and business checks as a method of payment for any fee or other charge collected by such state agency or department.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3651
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring all state
agencies and departments to accept certain methods of payment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 164-e
2 to read as follows:
3 § 164-e. Forms of payment accepted by state agencies and departments.
4 All state agencies and departments accepting or collecting fees, fines,
5 penalties, rents, rates, taxes, charges, revenue, financial obligations
6 or other amounts, from the public shall provide for the acceptance of
7 credit cards, debit cards, pre-paid cards, money orders, and personal
8 and business checks as a method of payment for any amount accepted or
9 collected by such agency or department.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
11 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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