Bill Text: NY S06884 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires hotels and lodging facilities to make at least two attempts to contact guests who leave any item of greater than nominal value or identification documents behind within 48 hours of the completion of their stay and to dispose of the identification documents if the owner cannot be contacted; limits the liability of a lodging owner or operator for damage or loss during shipping.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-15 - PRINT NUMBER 6884A [S06884 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06884-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6884

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 12, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to items  left  by
          guests of hotels or other lodging facilities

          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  210 to read as follows:
     3    § 210. Items left by guests  of  lodging  facilities.  1.  The  owner,
     4  lessor,  proprietor  or  manager of any hotel, motel, steamboat, tourist
     5  cabin, camp, resort, tavern, inn, boarding or lodging house  shall  make
     6  reasonable  efforts to contact a guest if any item of greater than nomi-
     7  nal value, or identification  documents, including but not limited to  a
     8  driver's license, passport, or non-driver identification card, or copies
     9  of  identification  documents,  including but not limited to a copy of a
    10  driver's license, passport, or non-driver identification card  are  left
    11  behind after the guest's stay.
    12    2. At least two contact attempts must be made within forty-eight hours
    13  of  the  guest  completing their stay using the information used to book
    14  the stay.  A lodging facility must keep a record of  the  lost  item  or
    15  document and the steps taken to notify the guest.
    16    3. If contact cannot be made, the owner, lessor, proprietor, or manag-
    17  er  shall  dispose  of  identification documents and copies of the docu-
    18  ments. Disposal of identification documents or copies of  identification
    19  documents  shall include the physical destruction of any physical copies
    20  such that it would be impossible to recreate the copy.
    21    4. A lodging facility owner or operator shall not be held  liable  for
    22  any  loss or damage to a guest's lost item or document during storage or
    23  shipping.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    25  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10733-02-3