Bill Text: NY A10634 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires certain car wash facilities to display a notice to customers that such customers may file a complaint regarding damages sustained from such car wash facility to the consumer protection division.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-20 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A10634 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10634-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10634

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 20, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Fall) --
          read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on  Consumer  Affairs  and
          Protection

        AN  ACT  to amend the general business law, in relation to rights of car
          wash  facility  customers  to  file  a  complaint  regarding   damages
          sustained from such car wash facility

          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  349-h to read as follows:
     3    § 349-h.  Car  wash  facility  liability;  notice  of  right  to  file
     4  complaint.    1.  For  the  purposes of this section, the term "car wash
     5  facility" shall mean a facility that engages primarily in  the  business
     6  of washing, waxing, and/or vacuuming motor vehicles.
     7    2.  Any  car wash facility that displays a sign informing customers of
     8  such car wash facility that such car wash  facility  is  not  liable  or
     9  otherwise  responsible  for any damages caused to motor vehicles at such
    10  car wash facility, shall include an additional notice on or adjacent  to
    11  such sign notifying such customers that such customers have the right to
    12  file  a  complaint to the consumer protection division if such customers
    13  sustain damages to their motor vehicle  from  such  car  wash  facility,
    14  notwithstanding the provisions of such sign.
    15    3.  A  car wash facility in violation of this section shall be subject
    16  to a civil penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15892-01-4