Bill Text: NY A11162 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires health clubs accept cancellation of a membership within twenty-four hours of receiving notice of the cancellation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-04 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A11162 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A11162-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11162

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 4, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Perry) --
          read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on  Consumer  Affairs  and
          Protection

        AN  ACT  to amend the general business law, in relation to the cancella-
          tion of a health club contract

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  624  of  the  general business law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. Every contract for services shall provide  that  such  health  club
     4  shall  accept  cancellation  of a membership by the buyer or the buyer's
     5  estate within twenty-four hours of receiving notice of the cancellation.
     6  Such health clubs shall accept  cancellation  of  a  membership  through
     7  methods  including,  but  not limited to, the internet, telephone, or in
     8  person.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17491-03-0