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                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 12, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. MONTESANO, CROUCH, GOODELL, HAWLEY -- read once
         and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
       AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the unsolicited
         sending of blank checks by issuers of credit cards
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  520  of  the  general business law is amended by
    2  adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
    3    (10) NO ISSUER OF A CREDIT CARD SHALL SEND UNSOLICITED,  BLANK  CHECKS
    4  TO A CARD MEMBER RESIDING IN NEW YORK STATE.
    5    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    6  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05111-01-5