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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4365--A
                                                                Cal. No. 506
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 3, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. PERRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. MAGEE --
          read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on  Consumer  Affairs  and
          Protection -- passed by Assembly and delivered to the Senate, recalled
          from  the  Senate, vote reconsidered, bill amended, ordered reprinted,

          retaining its place on the special order of third reading
 
        AN ACT to amend the general business law,  in  relation  to  restricting
          pay-per-call services
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 369-ee of the general business law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-a.  Prize claims by pay-per-call services.  It shall be unlawful for
     4  any person, firm or corporation to offer a consumer a prize, if in order
     5  to claim the prize, the consumer must call a pay-per-call service  where
     6  the  charge  for  such  pay-per-call service is greater than the service
     7  charge authorized by the appropriate regulatory commission. As  used  in

     8  this  subdivision "pay-per-call service" means any telephone service for
     9  which the calling party is assessed, by virtue of completing the call, a
    10  charge for which the caller pays a per-call or per-time charge.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    12  have become a law.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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