Relates to gas station credit cards; requires gas stations charge the same rate for purchases of gasoline made by gas station credit cards as they charge for purchases made by cash.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4514
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, THIELE, GUNTHER, OTIS, RIVERA, JAFFEE,
PEOPLES-STOKES, CROUCH, GALEF -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
ARROYO, COOK, MOSLEY, PERRY, SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to credit cards
issued by gas stations
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
2 518-b to read as follows:
3 § 518-b. Gas station credit cards. 1. A gas station shall charge the
4 same rate for purchases of gasoline made by a credit card issued by such
5 gas station, or the parent company or any subsidiary thereof as it
6 charges for purchases made by cash.
7 2. For the purposes of this section, the term:
8 (a) "gas station" shall mean a filling station where fuel is stored
9 primarily for sale by delivery directly into the ordinary fuel tank
10 connected with the engine of a motor vehicle to be consumed in the oper-
11 ation of such motor vehicle or where such fuel is stored primarily for
12 sale by delivery directly into the ordinary fuel tank connected with the
13 engine of a vessel to be consumed in the operation of such vessel.
14 (b) "credit card" shall have the meaning ascribed to it in section
15 five hundred eleven of this article.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08232-01-9
