STATE OF NEW YORK
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145--B
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection --
recommitted to the Committee on Consumer Protection in accordance with
Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to providing
notice of potential scams when selling gift cards
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 396-i of the general business law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 2-b to read as follows:
3 2-b. No person, firm, partnership, association or corporation shall
4 sell a gift certificate to a purchaser unless the seller displays a
5 conspicuous notice at or near where the gift certificate is displayed or
6 at or near the physical location where the sale occurs, that (i)
7 cautions the purchaser about prepaid card scams, and (ii) instructs the
8 purchaser on what to do if they suspect they might be a potential victim
9 of such a scam.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
11 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02118-09-2
