Amd §391-w, Gen Bus L (as proposed in S.9365-A & A.10215-A)
Clarifies violations of provisions prohibiting third-party restaurant reservation services from arranging unauthorized restaurant reservations with food service establishments.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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843
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to violations of
provisions prohibiting third-party restaurant reservation services
from arranging unauthorized restaurant reservations with food service
establishments
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 391-w of the general business law,
2 as added by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the general business
3 law relating to prohibiting third-party restaurant reservation services
4 from arranging unauthorized restaurant reservations with food service
5 establishments, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 9365-A and
6 A. 10215-A, is amended to read as follows:
7 3. Any person who violates, or causes another person to violate, a
8 provision of this section [or any rule promulgated pursuant thereto],
9 shall be subject to a civil penalty that shall not exceed one thousand
10 dollars for each violation. Violations by third-party restaurant reser-
11 vation services under this section shall accrue on a daily basis for
12 each day and for each food service establishment with respect to which a
13 violation of this section [or any rule promulgated pursuant to this
14 section] was committed. [A proceeding to recover any civil penalty or
15 restitution authorized pursuant to this section may be brought within
16 any agency of the state designated to conduct such proceedings.]
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
18 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the general business
19 law relating to prohibiting third-party restaurant reservation services
20 from arranging unauthorized restaurant reservations with food service
21 establishments, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 9365-A and
22 A. 10215-A, takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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