Relates to the suspension of a health club contract; allows a buyer to suspend payment for services until access to a facility or premises has been restored or the right to a credit for dues and fees paid.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10914
IN ASSEMBLY
August 17, 2020
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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 the suspension
of a health club contract
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
2 624-a to read as follows:
3 § 624-a. Rights of suspension of contracts for services. Every
4 contract for services at a health club, which is premised upon the use
5 of such health club's facility or premises, and where the use of such
6 facility or premises (1) has ceased, partially or fully, (2) has been
7 rendered impossible or illegal, or (3) where the non-use of the facility
8 or premises, or the non-rendering of service, has frustrated the purpose
9 of the contract, shall provide the buyer, at the option of the health
10 club, the right to suspend payment for all services until access to the
11 facility or premises is restored, or the right to a credit for dues and
12 fees paid.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16086-08-0
