Bill Text: NY A08630 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits providers from imposing a fee for termination or early cancellation of certain service contracts in the event a customer has deceased before the end of such contract.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-27 - signed chap.331 [A08630 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08630-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8630
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    December 23, 2015
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
        AN ACT to amend the general business law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
          providers from imposing a fee for termination or early cancellation of
          certain  service contracts in the event a customer has deceased before
          the end of such contract
          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  399-zzzz to read as follows:
     3    §  399-zzzz.  Prohibition  of  certain  fee charges for termination or
     4  early cancellation. 1. No provider  of  telephone,  cellular  telephone,
     5  television,  internet,  energy, or water services shall impose a fee for
     6  termination or early cancellation of a service contract in the event the
     7  customer has deceased before the end of such contract.
     8    2. Every violation of this section shall  be  punishable  by  a  civil
     9  penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11877-02-5