Bill Text: NY A05350 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to gas station credit cards; requires gas stations charge the same rate for purchases of gasoline made by gas station credit cards as they charge for purchases made by cash.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A05350 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05350-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5350
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 8, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. WEPRIN, THIELE, GUNTHER, OTIS, RIVERA, JAFFEE,
          PEOPLES-STOKES, HOOPER, CROUCH, GALEF -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of
          A.  ARROYO,  COOK, MOSLEY, PERRY, SOLAGES -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation  to  credit  cards
          issued by gas stations
          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  518-b to read as follows:
     3    § 518-b. Gas station credit cards. 1. A gas station shall  charge  the
     4  same rate for purchases of gasoline made by a credit card issued by such
     5  gas  station,  or  the  parent  company  or any subsidiary thereof as it
     6  charges for purchases made by cash.
     7    2. For the purposes of this section, the term:
     8    (a) "gas station" shall mean a filling station where  fuel  is  stored
     9  primarily  for  sale  by  delivery  directly into the ordinary fuel tank
    10  connected with the engine of a motor vehicle to be consumed in the oper-
    11  ation of such motor vehicle or where such fuel is stored  primarily  for
    12  sale by delivery directly into the ordinary fuel tank connected with the
    13  engine of a vessel to be consumed in the operation of such vessel.
    14    (b)  "credit  card"  shall  have the meaning ascribed to it in section
    15  five hundred eleven of this article.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    17  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09558-01-7