Bill Text: NY A09679 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires sellers to clearly post the credit card price inclusive of any surcharge at the location a sale occurs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-28 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A09679 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09679-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9679

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 28, 2022
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring sell-
          ers to clearly post the price of a credit card surcharge

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 518 of the general business law, as added by  chap-
     2  ter 160 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 518. Credit card surcharge prohibited. No seller in any sales trans-
     4  action  may  impose  a  surcharge on a holder who elects to use a credit
     5  card in lieu of payment by cash, check, or  similar  means  unless  such
     6  seller clearly posts the credit card price, inclusive of such surcharge,
     7  at  the  location  where  the sale occurs, and provided further that the
     8  final sales price of any  such  sales  transaction,  inclusive  of  such
     9  surcharge, shall not amount to a price greater than the posted price for
    10  such sales transaction.
    11    Any seller who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty
    12  of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars
    13  or a term of imprisonment up to one year, or both.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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