STATE OF NEW YORK
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5201
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 3, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the general obligations law, in relation to automatic
renewal of contracts for electronic and life safety alarm services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 5-903 of the general obligations law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
3 2-a. Payment by the person receiving the service of an invoice on a
4 contract for electronic and life safety alarm services after expiration
5 of the term of the contract shall be considered acknowledgment by the
6 person receiving the service that the term of the contract has been
7 extended or renewed for the original term, or one additional year,
8 whichever is less, and such payment shall fulfill the notice require-
9 ments of this section, provided that such invoice clearly indicates that
10 payment constitutes an extension or renewal of such contract and
11 provides the terms of such extension or renewal.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08745-03-1
