Requires certain car wash facilities to display a notice to customers that such customers may file a complaint regarding damages sustained from such car wash facility to the consumer protection division.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10634
IN ASSEMBLY
June 20, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Fall) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and
Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to rights of car
wash facility customers to file a complaint regarding damages
sustained from such car wash facility
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
2 349-h to read as follows:
3 § 349-h. Car wash facility liability; notice of right to file
4 complaint. 1. For the purposes of this section, the term "car wash
5 facility" shall mean a facility that engages primarily in the business
6 of washing, waxing, and/or vacuuming motor vehicles.
7 2. Any car wash facility that displays a sign informing customers of
8 such car wash facility that such car wash facility is not liable or
9 otherwise responsible for any damages caused to motor vehicles at such
10 car wash facility, shall include an additional notice on or adjacent to
11 such sign notifying such customers that such customers have the right to
12 file a complaint to the consumer protection division if such customers
13 sustain damages to their motor vehicle from such car wash facility,
14 notwithstanding the provisions of such sign.
15 3. A car wash facility in violation of this section shall be subject
16 to a civil penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15892-01-4