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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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843
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to violations of
provisions prohibiting third-party restaurant reservation services
from arranging unauthorized restaurant reservations with food service
establishments
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 391-w of the general business law,
as added by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the general business
law relating to prohibiting third-party restaurant reservation services
from arranging unauthorized restaurant reservations with food service
establishments, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 9365-A and
A. 10215-A, is amended to read as follows:
3. Any person who violates, or causes another person to violate, a
provision of this section [or any rule promulgated pursuant thereto],
shall be subject to a civil penalty that shall not exceed one thousand
dollars for each violation. Violations by third-party restaurant reser-
vation services under this section shall accrue on a daily basis for
each day and for each food service establishment with respect to which a
violation of this section [or any rule promulgated pursuant to this
section] was committed. [A proceeding to recover any civil penalty or
restitution authorized pursuant to this section may be brought within
any agency of the state designated to conduct such proceedings.]
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the general business
law relating to prohibiting third-party restaurant reservation services
from arranging unauthorized restaurant reservations with food service
establishments, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 9365-A and
A. 10215-A, takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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