Exempts multi-service health clubs from the provisions stating that no contract for services shall require payment by the person receiving service or the use of the facilities in a total amount of three thousand six hundred dollars per annum.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8015
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 15, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to multi-service
health clubs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 623 of the general business law,
2 as amended by chapter 660 of the laws of 1990, is amended and a new
3 subdivision 6 is added to read as follows:
4 1. No contract for services shall require payment by the person
5 receiving service or the use of the facilities of a total amount in
6 excess of three thousand six hundred dollars per annum, provided, howev-
7 er, that this subdivision shall not apply to contracts relating solely
8 to the use of tennis, platform tennis [or] and racquet ball facilities,
9 and multi-service health clubs.
10 6. For the purposes of this section, the term multi-service health
11 club shall mean any New York based health club or gym which offers or
12 offers access to three or more of the following amenities: digital plat-
13 form services such as on-demand classes; individualized training
14 programming; fitness instructor training and/or certification; spa
15 treatments, co-working space, childcare; recurring group fitness class-
16 es; adult and/or youth sports programming; locker room with amenities
17 such as laundry service, steam rooms, and other toiletries; swimming
18 pool or swimming pools, or on-site food and beverage.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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