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2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11 - Employment Agencies. › 188 - Copies of Law to Be Posted.

§ 188. Copies of law to be posted. 1. Every licensed person shall post
  in  a  conspicuous  place  in  the main room of such agency sections one
  hundred seventy-eight, one hundred eighty-one, one hundred  eighty-five,
  and  one  hundred  eighty-six,  of  this article. Such poster shall also
  contain the name and  address  of  the  commissioner  charged  with  the
  enforcement of this article in the place where the agency is located.
2.  The  commissioner,  in conjunction with the director of the office
  for new Americans, shall  develop,  establish  and  implement  a  public
  awareness  campaign  regarding  the  rights  of job seekers. Such public
  awareness campaign shall be made available to the public  by  any  means
  deemed  appropriate  by  the commissioner and the director of the office
  for new Americans. Any  materials  developed  and  disseminated  to  job
  seekers  according  to  this  subdivision  must  also  be distributed to
  licensed employment agencies.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11 - Employment Agencies. › 190 - Penalties for Violations.

§  190.  Penalties  for  violations.  Any  person who violates and the
  officers of a corporation and stockholders holding ten percent  or  more
  of  the  stock  of  a  corporation  which  is  not  publicly traded, who
  knowingly  permit  the  corporation  to  violate  sections  one  hundred
  seventy-two,  one  hundred  seventy-three,  one hundred seventy-six, one
  hundred eighty-four, one hundred eighty-four-a, one hundred eighty-five,
  one hundred  eighty-five-a,  one  hundred  eighty-six,  or  one  hundred
  eighty-seven  of  this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
  conviction shall be subject to a fine not to exceed  two  thousand  five
  hundred  dollars  per  violation,  or imprisonment for not more than one
  year, or both, by any court of competent jurisdiction. The violation  of
  any other provision of this article shall be punishable by a fine not to
  exceed  five  hundred  dollars  or imprisonment for not more than thirty
  days. Criminal proceedings based upon violations of these sections shall
  be instituted by the commissioner and may be instituted by  any  persons
  aggrieved by such violations.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11 - Employment Agencies. › 191 - Definition.

§  191.  Definition. Whenever used in this article: "employer fee paid
  employment agency" means any person who on behalf of employers  procures
  or attempts to procure employees for "Class B" employment (as defined in
  section  one hundred eighty-five of this article) and who in no instance
  charges  a  fee  directly,  or  indirectly,  to  persons  seeking   such
  employment  even  though  a  fee may be charged to employers seeking the
  services of such employees, and who engages in no activity  constituting
  the  operation of an employment agency as defined in section one hundred
  seventy-one of this chapter and who  in  no  instance  enters  into  any
  arrangement  through  which  the  employer  fee  paid  employment agency
  receives remuneration or any other thing of value from any person,  firm
  or corporation which collects fees from applicants.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11 - Employment Agencies. › 192 - Prohibited Activities.

§  192.  Prohibited activities. An employer fee paid employment agency
  shall not engage in any of the following activities or conduct:
1. Direct an applicant to an employer for  the  purpose  of  obtaining
  employment  without  having  first  obtained a bona fide order therefor;
  however, a qualified applicant may be directed to an  employer  who  has
  previously  requested  that  it  regularly  be  accorded interviews with
  applicants of certain qualifications if a confirmation of the  order  is
  sent  to  the  employer.  Likewise  an  agency  may  attempt to sell the
  services of an applicant to an employer from which no job order has been
  received as long as this fact is told the applicant before the applicant
  is directed to the  employer.  Any  applicant  who  is  referred  to  an
  employer   contrary  to  the  provisions  of  this  subdivision  without
  obtaining employment thereby, shall be reimbursed by the agency for  all
  ordinary  and  necessary  travel expenses incurred by the applicant as a
  result of such referral, within twenty-four hours  of  making  a  demand
  therefor.
2.  Send  or  cause  to  be  sent any person to any employer where the
  agency knows, or reasonably should  have  known,  that  the  prospective
  employment  is  or  would  be  in  violation  of  state  or federal laws
  governing minimum wages or child  labor,  or  in  violation  of  article
  sixty-five  of  the  education  law  relating to compulsory education or
  article four of the labor law, or, that a labor dispute is in  progress,
  without  notifying  the applicant of such fact, and delivering to him or
  her a clear written statement that a labor dispute exists at  the  place
  of  such employment, or make any referral to an employment or occupation
  prohibited by law.
3. Require applicants for employment to subscribe to  any  publication
  or incidental service or contribute to the cost of advertising.
4.  Make  or  cause  to  be  made or use any name, sign or advertising
  device bearing a name which may be  similar  to  or  may  reasonably  be
  confused  with  the  name  of  a  federal,  state, city, county or other
  government agency.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11 - Employment Agencies. › 193 - Penalties for Violation.

§ 193. Penalties for violation. Any person violating the provisions of
  section  one  hundred  ninety-two  of  this article shall be guilty of a
  class A misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine  not  to  exceed  one
  thousand dollars or imprisonment for not more than one year or both.
Criminal  proceedings  based  upon violations may be instituted by the
  commissioner or may be  instituted  by  any  person  aggrieved  by  such
  violation.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11-A - Motor Vehicle Manufacturers › 199 - Penalties.

§  199.  Penalties.  Any  person,  firm,  or corporation violating the
  provisions of section one hundred ninety-six of this  article  shall  be
  liable  in an action brought on behalf of the people of the state of New
  York in the sum of one thousand dollars for each of such violations.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11-B - Franchises for the Sale of Motor Fuels › 199-A - Definitions.

§ 199-a. Definitions. As used in this article, the terms:
1. "Distributor" means any person engaged in the sale, consignment, or
  distribution of motor fuels to dealers.
2. "Dealer" means any person engaged in the retail sale of motor fuels
  for  use  in  motor  vehicles  under  a  franchise  entered  into with a
  distributor.
3. "Franchise" means any agreement between a distributor and a  dealer
  under  which  the  dealer is granted the right to use a trademark, trade
  name, service mark, or other identifying symbol or  name  owned  by  the
  distributor,  or to which the distributor has the right to authorize the
  use thereof, and is furnished by the distributor  with  products  to  be
  sold  at retail under such trademark, trade name, service mark, or other
  identifying symbol or name or any agreement between a distributor and  a
  dealer  under  which  the  dealer  is granted the right to occupy or use
  premises or facilities owned, leased, or controlled by the  distributor,
  for  the  purpose  of  engaging in the retail sale of motor fuels of the
  distributor, provided that an agreement  by  one  distributor  to  lease
  premises  or  facilities  to  another distributor shall not constitute a
  franchise.
4. "Retail" means the sale of motor fuels to the consuming public  for
  the purposes other than resale.
5.  "Service  Station"  means  any premises whereon the retail sale of
  motor fuels is conducted as the principal business.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11-B - Franchises for the Sale of Motor Fuels › 199-B - Disclosures to Prospective Dealers.

§  199-b.  Disclosures  to  prospective  dealers.  A distributor shall
  disclose in writing to any prospective dealer the following information,
  before any franchise is entered into:
1. The gallonage  volume  history,  if  any,  of  the  location  under
  negotiation for and during the three year period immediately past or for
  the   entire  period  which  the  location  has  been  supplied  by  the
  distributor, whichever is shorter.
2. The name and last known address of the previous dealer  or  dealers
  for  the last three years, or for and during the entire period which the
  location has been supplied by the distributor, whichever is shorter, and
  the reason or reasons for the termination of each dealer franchise.
3. Any legally binding commitments for the sale, demolition  or  other
  disposition of the location.
4.  The training programs, if any, and the specific goods and services
  the distributor will provide for and to the dealer.
5. Full disclosure of any and all obligations which will  be  required
  of  the  dealer,  including  but  not  limited  to,  any  obligation  to
  exclusively deal  in  any  of  the  products  of  the  distributor,  its
  subsidiaries  or  any  other  company or any advertising and promotional
  items that the dealer must accept.
6. Full disclosure of all restrictions on the sale, transfer,  renewal
  and termination of the franchise.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11-B - Franchises for the Sale of Motor Fuels › 199-C - Termination or Refusal to Renew a Franchise Without Good Cause Prohibited; Notice Requirement; Right of Action.

§  199-c.  Termination  or  refusal  to renew a franchise without good
cause prohibited; notice requirement; right  of  action.  1.  Except  as
otherwise  provided  in  this  article,  no distributor or agent thereof
shall terminate, cancel or refuse to renew any franchise except for good
cause, which shall include, but not be limited to:
(a) The dealer's failure to comply with a substantive requirement of a
franchise agreement;
(b) The dealer's failure to act in good  faith  in  carrying  out  the
terms of the franchise.
(c)  The  distributor's  failure  to  renew  his  lease of the service
station premises, provided the distributor does not supply  the  service
station  with  motor fuels for a period of one year after the expiration
of the lease.
2. A distributor may elect not to renew the franchise due to the  sale
or  lease  of  the  service station premises owned by the distributor to
other than a subsidiary or affiliate of the  distributor  for  any  use,
provided  the distributor does not supply the service station with motor
fuels for a period of one year after such sale or  lease;  the  sale  or
lease  of  the  service station premises to a subsidiary or affiliate of
the distributor for use other than as a service station; or the  use  of
the  service  station  premises  by  the distributor for other than as a
service station.
3. No distributor may terminate, cancel or refuse to renew a franchise
agreement for any reason unless he has given ninety days' written notice
to the dealer of his intent to  terminate,  cancel  or  not  renew  such
franchise,  provided that in the event of the dealer's default under the
terms and conditions of the franchise agreement as set out in  paragraph
a   of   subdivision   one   of   this  section,  the  distributor  may,
alternatively, give the dealer ten days'  written  notice  to  cure  the
default,  and  if the default has not been cured within such period, the
distributor may terminate or cancel the franchise in accordance with the
notice requirements of the franchise agreements, provided such notice is
given within ten days or  any  other  period  mutually  agreed  upon  in
writing after the expiration of the ten-day default period.
4.  A gasoline dealer may bring an action under this section against a
distributor in  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction  for  wrongfully
terminating,  cancelling  or refusing to renew a franchise and the court
may award money damages and  grant  such  equitable  relief  as  may  be
proper.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11-B - Franchises for the Sale of Motor Fuels › 199-D - Repurchase of Merchandise.

§  199-d.  Repurchase of merchandise. In the event of any termination,
  cancellation  or  failure  to  renew  a  franchise,  whether  by  mutual
  agreement  or otherwise, a distributor shall make or cause to be made an
  offer in good faith to  repurchase  from  the  dealer  at  then  current
  wholesale  prices  any  and  all merchantable products purchased by said
  dealer from the distributor, provided however, that in  such  event  the
  distributor  shall  have  the  right  to  apply the proceeds against any
  existing indebtedness owed to him by the  dealer  and  further  provided
  that  such  repurchased  obligation  is  conditioned upon there being no
  other claims or liens against such products by or  on  behalf  of  other
  creditors of the dealer.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11-B - Franchises for the Sale of Motor Fuels › 199-G - Arbitration.

§  199-g.  Arbitration. Any action instituted pursuant to this article
  in connection with the termination, cancellation, or  non-renewal  of  a
  franchise,  or  any  part thereof, which provides for the arbitration of
  disputes arising thereunder in accordance with the rules of the American
  Arbitration Association shall be subject to the  provisions  of  article
  seventy-five of the civil practice law and rules.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11-B - Franchises for the Sale of Motor Fuels › 199-H - Relationship to Other Laws.

§ 199-h. Relationship to other laws. This article shall not be held to
  invalidate  any  provisions  of the laws of this state unless there is a
  direct  conflict  between  the  provisions  of  this  article  and   the
  provisions of such state law, in which case this article shall prevail.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11-B - Franchises for the Sale of Motor Fuels › 199-K - Separability.

§  199-k.  Separability.  If  any  provision  of  this  article or the
  application of such provision to any  person  or  circumstance  is  held
  invalid,  the  remainder  of  this  article  and the application of such
  provision to other persons or circumstances shall  not  be  affected  by
  such holding.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11-B - Franchises for the Sale of Motor Fuels › 199-L - Removal of Certain Actions and Proceedings.

§   199-l.  Removal  of  certain  actions  and  proceedings.  Where  a
  proceeding is commenced to dispossess a dealer in a court which does not
  have jurisdiction to grant the relief provided in this article  and  the
  dealer  demonstrates  that  he  has a defense or counterclaim cognizable
  under this article, a court having  such  jurisdiction  may  remove  the
  action  to  itself  upon motion. Provided, however, that no such removal
  should be permitted where a federal or state court has already entered a
  final judgment on the franchise or possession issues and no  stay  order
  pending  appeal  has  been  filed  and the proceeding is being commenced
  solely for the purpose of enforcing such judgment.  No removal  provided
  for  herein  shall  serve  to extend a franchisee's time to take certain
  actions provided for under state  or  federal  law,  including  but  not
  limited  to  the  time  within which to seek injunctive relief under the
  federal petroleum marketing practices act.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11-B - Franchises for the Sale of Motor Fuels › 199-M - Dealers' Rights of Association.

§ 199-m. Dealers' rights of association. No distributor shall directly
  or  indirectly,  through  any  officer,  agent  or employee, restrict or
  inhibit the right of a dealer to join a trade association or  to  freely
  associate with other dealers for any lawful purpose. A failure to comply
  with this section shall be a violation punishable by a fine of up to one
  thousand dollars.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 11-B - Franchises for the Sale of Motor Fuels › 199-N - Enforcement of Dealers' Rights of Association; Injunction; Damages; Limitation of Actions.

§  199-n.  Enforcement  of dealers' rights of association; injunction;
  damages; limitation of actions. Any distributor  or  officer,  agent  or
  employee of a distributor who violates section one hundred ninety-nine-m
  of  this article may be sued in the supreme court in the county in which
  the defendant resides, or where a dealer affected by the violation  does
  business, for temporary and permanent injunctive relief and for damages,
  if  any,  and  the  costs of the action, including reasonable attorney's
  fees.  A plaintiff shall not be required to allege or prove that  actual
  damages have been suffered in order to obtain injunctive relief.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 200 - Safes; Limited Liability.

§ 200. Safes; limited liability. Whenever the proprietor or manager of
  any  hotel, motel, inn or steamboat shall provide a safe or safe deposit
  boxes in the  office  of  such  hotel,  motel  or  steamboat,  or  other
  convenient  place  for the safe keeping of any money, jewels, ornaments,
  bank notes, bonds, negotiable securities or precious  stones,  belonging
  to  the  guests  of or travelers in such hotel, motel, inn or steamboat,
  and shall notify the guests or travelers thereof  by  posting  a  notice
  stating  the  fact that such safe or safe deposit boxes are provided, in
  which such property may be deposited, in a public and conspicuous  place
  and  manner in the office and public rooms, and in the public parlors of
  such hotel, motel, or inn, or saloon of  such  steamboat;  and  if  such
  guest  or traveler shall neglect to deliver such property, to the person
  in charge of such office for deposit in such safe or safe deposit boxes,
  the proprietor or manager of such hotel, motel, or steamboat  shall  not
  be  liable  for  any  loss  of such property, sustained by such guest or
  traveler by theft  or  otherwise;  but  no  hotel,  motel  or  steamboat
  proprietor,  manager  or  lessee shall be obliged to receive property on
  deposit for safe keeping, exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars in
  value; and if such guest or traveler shall deliver such property, to the
  person in charge of such office for deposit in such safe or safe deposit
  boxes, said proprietor, manager or lessee shall not be  liable  for  any
  loss thereof, sustained by such guest or traveler by theft or otherwise,
  in any sum exceeding the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars unless
  by special agreement in writing with such proprietor, manager or lessee.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 201 - Liability for Loss of Clothing and Other Personal Property Limited.

§  201.  Liability  for  loss  of clothing and other personal property
  limited. 1. No hotel or motel keeper except as provided in the foregoing
  section shall be liable for damage to or  loss  of  wearing  apparel  or
  other  personal  property in the lobby, hallways or in the room or rooms
  assigned to a guest for any  sum  exceeding  the  sum  of  five  hundred
  dollars,  unless  it  shall  appear  that such loss occurred through the
  fault or negligence of such keeper, nor shall he be liable  in  any  sum
  exceeding  the  sum  of one hundred dollars for the loss of or damage to
  any such property when delivered to such  keeper  for  storage  or  safe
  keeping in the store room, baggage room or other place elsewhere than in
  the  room  or  rooms  assigned  to  such  guest,  unless  at the time of
  delivering the same for storage or safe keeping such value in excess  of
  one  hundred dollars shall be stated and a written receipt, stating such
  value, shall be issued by such keeper, but in no event shall such keeper
  be liable beyond five hundred dollars, unless it shall appear that  such
  loss  occurred through his fault or negligence, and such keeper may make
  a reasonable charge for storing or keeping such property, nor  shall  he
  be  liable  for  the  loss  of  or  damage to any merchandise samples or
  merchandise for sale, unless the guest  shall  have  given  such  keeper
  prior written notice of having the same in his possession, together with
  the value thereof, the receipt of which notice the hotel or motel keeper
  shall acknowledge in writing over the signature of himself or his agent,
  but in no event shall such keeper be liable beyond five hundred dollars,
  unless  it  shall  appear  that such loss or damage occurred through his
  fault or negligence; as to property deposited by guests  or  patrons  in
  the  parcel or checkroom of any hotel, motel or restaurant, the delivery
  of which is evidenced by a check or receipt therefor and  for  which  no
  fee  or charge is exacted, the proprietor shall not be liable beyond two
  hundred dollars, unless such value in  excess  of  two  hundred  dollars
  shall be stated upon delivery and a written receipt, stating such value,
  shall be issued, but he shall in no event be liable beyond three hundred
  dollars,  unless  such  loss  occurs  through  his  fault or negligence.
  Notwithstanding anything hereinabove contained, no hotel or motel keeper
  shall be liable for damage to or loss of such property by fire, when  it
  shall  appear  that  such  fire  was  occasioned  without  his  fault or
  negligence.
2. A printed copy of this section shall be  posted  in  a  conspicuous
  place  and manner in the office or public room and in the public parlors
  of such hotel or motel. No hotel, motel or restaurant  proprietor  shall
  post  a  notice  disclaiming or misrepresenting his liability under this
  section.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 202 - Loss by Fire.

§  202.  Loss  by  fire. No inn keeper shall be liable for the loss or
  destruction by fire of property received by him from a guest, stored  or
  being  with the knowledge of such guest in a barn or other out-building,
  where it shall appear that such loss or destruction was the work  of  an
  incendiary,  and  occurred  without  the fault or negligence of such inn
  keeper.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 203 - Value of Animals.

§  203. Value of animals. No animal belonging to a guest and destroyed
  by fire while on the premises of any  inn  keeper  shall  be  deemed  of
  greater  value  than three hundred dollars, unless an agreement shall be
  proved between such guest and inn keeper that a higher estimate shall be
  made of the same.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 203-A - Hotel and Motel Keeper's Liability for Property in Transport.

§ 203-a. Hotel and motel keeper's liability for property in transport.
  No hotel or motel keeper shall be liable in any sum exceeding the sum of
  two hundred and fifty dollars for the loss of or damage to property of a
  guest  delivered to such keeper, his agent or employee, for transport to
  or from the hotel or motel, unless at the time of  delivering  the  same
  such value in excess of two hundred and fifty dollars shall be stated by
  such  guest  and a written receipt stating such value shall be issued by
  such keeper; provided, however,  that  where  such  written  receipt  is
  issued the keeper shall not be liable beyond five hundred dollars unless
  it  shall  appear that such loss or damage occurred through his fault or
  negligence.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 203-B - Posting of Statute.

§  203-b.  Posting of statute. Every keeper of a hotel or motel or inn
  shall post  in  a  public  and  conspicuous  place  and  manner  in  the
  registration  office  and  in the public rooms of such hotel or motel or
  inn a printed copy of this section and section two hundred three-a.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 204 - Register to Be Kept.

§  204.  Register to be kept. The owner, lessee, proprietor or manager
  of any hotel, motel, tourist cabins, camp, resort, tavern, inn, boarding
  or lodging house shall keep for a period of three years a register which
  shall show the name, residence, date of arrival  and  departure  of  his
  guests. Such records may be kept within the meaning of this section when
  reproduced  on  any  photographic,  photostatic,  microfilm, micro-card,
  miniature photographic or other process which  actually  reproduced  the
  original record.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 204-A - Safety Chain Latches Required.

§  204-a.  Safety  chain  latches  required.  Every  person,  firm  or
  corporation  engaged  in  the  business  of  furnishing  public  lodging
  accommodations  in  hotels,  motels  or  motor  courts shall install and
  maintain, on the inside of each entrance door to every rental  unit  for
  which  there  is  a  duplicate or master key which would afford entry to
  said unit by one other than the occupant, a safety chain latch.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 206 - Rates to Be Posted; Penalty for Violation.

§  206.  Rates  to be posted; penalty for violation. Every keeper of a
  hotel or inn shall post in a public and conspicuous place and manner  in
  the  office  or  public room, and in the public parlors of such hotel or
  inn, a printed copy of this section and sections  two  hundred  and  two
  hundred  and  one,  and a statement of the charges or rate of charges by
  the day and for meals furnished and for lodging. No charge or sum  shall
  be  collected or received by any such hotel keeper or inn keeper for any
  service not actually rendered or for a longer time than  the  person  so
  charged actually remained at such hotel or inn, nor for a higher rate of
  charge  for  the  use  of  such  room or board, lodging or meals than is
  specified in the rate of charges required  to  be  posted  by  the  last
  preceding  sentence;  provided  such  guest  shall have given such hotel
  keeper or inn keeper notice at the office  of  his  departure.  For  any
  violation  of  this  section  the  offender shall forfeit to the injured
  party three times the amount so charged, and shall not  be  entitled  to
  receive any money for meals, services or time charged.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 206-A - Advertising of Rates for Motels and Motor Courts.

§  206-a.  Advertising of rates for motels and motor courts. No person
engaged in the business of furnishing public lodging  accommodations  in
motels and motor courts shall:
(a) post or maintain posted on any outdoor or outside advertising sign
pertaining to such establishment, that may be seen from a public highway
or street, any rates for accommadations in such establishment unless the
sign  shall  have  posted  thereon both the minimum and maximum room, or
other rental unit rates, for  accommodations  offered  for  rental.  All
posted  rates  and  descriptive  data  on such sign shall be in type and
material of the same size and prominence.
(b) post or maintain posted on such  outdoor  or  outside  advertising
signs  rates  for  accommodations in any such establishment unless there
are available in any such establishment, when vacant, accommodations for
immediate occupancy to meet the posted rates of such advertising signs.
(c)  post  or  maintain  outdoor  or  outside  advertising  signs   in
connection  with  any  such  establishment relating to rates which shall
have thereon any untrue, false, fraudulent or misleading representations
or statements as to any matter whatsoever.
Advertising signs stating the rate per person and bearing  the  legend
"and  up"  shall  not  be  deemed  to comply with the provisions of this
section.
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section shall be
guilty of an offense and subject to  a  fine  of  not  more  than  fifty
dollars.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 206-B - Posting of Rates for Motels and Motor Courts.

§  206-b.  Posting of rates for motels and motor courts. Every person,
  firm or corporation engaged in the business of furnishing public lodging
  accommodations in motels and motor courts shall:
Post in a conspicuous place or manner in each and every rental unit, a
  printed copy of this  section  and  section  two  hundred  six-a  and  a
  statement  of  the rental unit charge or rate charged by the day for the
  rental unit. No charge or sum shall be  collected  or  received  by  any
  motel or motor court keeper for any service not actually rendered or for
  a longer time than the person so charged actually remained at such motel
  or  motor  court,  nor  for  a higher rate of charge for the use of said
  rental unit than is specified in the list  of  charges  required  to  be
  posted  by  the  last  preceding  sentence  of this paragraph, nor for a
  higher rate of charge for the use of said rental unit than  the  maximum
  rate  posted  or  maintained  on any outdoor or outside advertising sign
  pertaining to such establishment, provided such guest shall  have  given
  such  motel or motor court keeper notice at the office of his departure.
  For any violation of this section, the offender  shall  forfeit  to  the
  injured  party,  three  times  the  amount  so charged, and shall not be
  entitled to receive any money for services or time charged.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 206-C - Frauds on Guests of Hotels, Boarding Houses, Rooming-Houses and Lodging Houses.

§  206-c.  Frauds on guests of hotels, boarding houses, rooming-houses
  and lodging houses. A person who for purposes of gain and  by  means  of
  any false statement or representation regarding a hotel, boarding house,
  rooming-house  or  lodging  house, shall divert or attempt to divert any
  traveler  or  any  other  person  to  another  hotel,  boarding   house,
  rooming-house or lodging house, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
The  making  of  a  false statement regarding a hotel, boarding house,
  rooming-house  or  lodging  house,  coupled   with   a   suggestion   or
  recommendation to patronize another hotel, boarding house, rooming-house
  or  lodging  house  shall  be  presumptive  evidence that the act of the
  defendant was committed for the purpose of gain.
Any person who shall pay, or offer to pay any money or other reward to
  another  for  diverting  patrons  from  one   hotel,   boarding   house,
  rooming-house  or  lodging house to another, knowing that such diversion
  was effected in the manner herein  prohibited,  shall  be  guilty  of  a
  misdemeanor.
In  any  prosecution  of  a  person for payment or offer of payment of
  money or other reward in violation  of  this  section,  proof  of  prior
  notice  to  the  defendant  that  the person to whom payment was made or
  offered has at any time diverted  patronage  from  one  hotel,  boarding
  house,  rooming-house  or  lodging  house  to  another by means of false
  representation, shall be presumptive evidence that such  defendant  knew
  that  the  diversion  complained  of was effected by false statements or
  representations in violation of this section.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 206-D - Posting of Rates of Various Type Accommodations.

§  206-d. Posting of rates of various type accommodations. In addition
  to other provisions in this article relating to posting of rates,  every
  keeper of a hotel, motel or inn shall post publicly and conspicuously at
  the  place  maintained  for the registration of guests so that it can be
  easily and readily seen and read by guests registering, a  statement  of
  the  charges or rate of charges by the day indicating the standard rates
  for  rooms  or  suites  of  different  accommodations,  and  for   meals
  furnished.
The standard rates shall be that schedule of rates available to guests
  who do not qualify for special discounts or rate reductions.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 206-F - Information Concerning Services for Human Trafficking Victims.

§   206-f.  Information  concerning  services  for  human  trafficking
  victims. 1. For purposes of this section, "lodging facility" shall  mean
  any  inn, hotel, motel, motor court or other establishment that provides
  lodging  to  transient  guests.  Such  term   shall   not   include   an
  establishment  treated  as a dwelling unit for the purposes of any state
  or local law or regulation or an establishment located within a building
  that has five or less rooms for  rent  or  hire  and  that  is  actually
  occupied as a residence by the proprietor of such establishment.
2.  Every  keeper  of a lodging facility shall make available in plain
  view and in a conspicuous place and manner in the public restrooms,  and
  in  the  individual  guest  rooms,  and  near  the public entrance or in
  another conspicuous location  in  clear  view  of  the  public  and  the
  employees  where  similar  information  is customarily displayed in such
  lodging facility, informational cards developed by: (i)  the  office  of
  temporary  and  disability  assistance in consultation with the New York
  state interagency task force on human trafficking; or  (ii)  the  United
  States  Department  of Homeland Security; or (iii) the lodging facility.
  All  informational  cards  shall  only  contain  information  concerning
  services for human trafficking victims and shall prominently include the
  national  human  trafficking  hotline  telephone  number.  The office of
  temporary and disability assistance in consultation with  the  New  York
  state  interagency  task  force  on  human  trafficking, shall develop a
  notice which  shall  include  the  national  human  trafficking  hotline
  telephone  number, to be made available to lodging facilities to post on
  a voluntary basis.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 207 - Sale of Unclaimed Articles and Other Property Covered by His Lien.

§  207.  Sale  of unclaimed articles and other property covered by his
  lien.  Any  keeper  of   a   hotel,   motel,   apartment   hotel,   inn,
  boarding-house,  rooming  house  or  lodging-house,  except an immigrant
  lodging-house, who shall have a lien for fare, lodging, accommodation or
  board upon any goods, baggage or other chattel property, or, who, for  a
  period  of  six  months, shall have in custody any unclaimed trunk, box,
  valise, package or parcel, or other chattel property, may, in the manner
  provided by this section, sell the same at public auction to the highest
  bidder for cash, and out of the proceeds of such sale may,  in  case  of
  lien,  retain  the  amount of such lien and the expense of advertisement
  and sale, and the expense of storage, advertisement  and  sale  thereof.
  Not  less  than  fifteen days prior to the time of the sale, a notice of
  the time  and  place  of  holding  the  sale,  and  containing  a  brief
  description  of  the  goods,  baggage  and articles to be sold, shall be
  published in a newspaper published in the city or  town  in  which  such
  hotel,  motel,  apartment  hotel,  inn, boarding-house, rooming-house or
  lodging-house is situated; but if there be none, then in such  newspaper
  published  nearest  such  city  or town; if the name and address of said
  guest, boarder, roomer or owner of such chattel articles  and  property,
  appears  upon  the  records  of  such  keeper, such notice shall also be
  mailed to said guest,  boarder,  roomer  or  owner,  addressed  to  such
  address;  such  notice  shall be mailed in the manner aforesaid at least
  fifteen days prior to the time of the sale.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 208 - Disposition of Proceeds of Sale.

§  208. Disposition of proceeds of sale. Such keeper shall, out of the
  proceeds of such sale, retain the amount of his lien or storage  charges
  and  the expense of advertising and sale, and shall make an entry of the
  articles sold, the amount received therefor, the amounts retained by him
  as aforesaid, and if there be any surplus, he  shall,  within  ten  days
  after  such  sale,  upon  demand,  pay  over such surplus to such guest,
  boarder, roomer or person whose property was sold. In case such  surplus
  shall  not be demanded and paid as aforesaid, within said ten days, then
  within five days thereafter, such keeper shall pay said surplus  to  the
  treasurer  of the county or chamberlain or other chief fiscal officer of
  the city in which such sale took place, and shall,  at  the  same  time,
  file  with said treasurer or chamberlain or other chief fiscal officer a
  statement in writing containing the name and place of residence, so  far
  as  they are known, of the guest, boarder, roomer or person whose goods,
  baggage or chattel articles were sold, the articles sold and  the  price
  at  which  they were sold, the name and address of the auctioneer making
  the  sale,  and  a  copy  of  the  notice  published.  Said   treasurer,
  chamberlain  or other chief fiscal officer shall keep said surplus money
  for and credit the same to the person named in said  statement  as  such
  guest,  boarder,  roomer or person, and shall pay the same to him or his
  executors  or  administrators,  upon   demand,   and   upon   furnishing
  satisfactory  evidence  of  identity  to  such treasurer, chamberlain or
  other chief fiscal officer.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 209 - Certain Sales After Eighteen Months.

§  209.  Certain  sales  after eighteen months. Any keeper of a hotel,
  motel,  apartment   hotel,   inn,   boarding-house,   rooming-house   or
  lodging-house,  except  an immigrant lodging-house, whose lien for fare,
  lodging, accommodation or board upon any goods, baggage or other chattel
  property, shall not have been paid for a period of eighteen months,  may
  sell such property at public auction for cash to the highest bidder upon
  mailing  a  notice  inclosed  in  a  securely  closed  postpaid wrapper,
  directed to the person who left such property with such keeper,  at  the
  post  office  of  the  ctiy,  town  or  village where such hotel, motel,
  apartment hotel, inn, boarding-house, rooming-house or lodging-house  is
  situated,  such notice to contain a statement of the time and place when
  and where such goods, baggage or other chattel property will be sold and
  such notice shall be mailed at least fifteen days before such sale shall
  take place. Such keeper shall, out of the proceeds of such sale,  retain
  the amount of his lien and the expense of selling such property, and, if
  there  be  any  surplus, he shall, within ten days after such sale, upon
  demand, pay over such surplus to the person whose property was sold.  In
  case  such  surplus  shall not be demanded and paid as aforesaid, within
  said ten days, then within five days thereafter, such keeper  shall  pay
  such  surplus  to  the  treasurer  of the county or chamberlain or other
  chief fiscal officer of the city in which  such  sale  took  place,  and
  shall,  at the same time, file with said treasurer, chamberlain or other
  chief fiscal officer a statement in writing containing the name  of  the
  person whose property was sold, the price at which it was sold, the date
  of  such  sale and by whom sold. Such surplus shall be kept and disposed
  of in the manner provided in section  two  hundred  and  eight  of  this
  chapter.  Nothing  contained  in  this  article shall preclude any other
  remedy now existing for the enforcement and satisfaction of  a  lien  of
  the  keeper  of  a  hotel,  motel, apartment hotel, inn, boarding-house,
  rooming-house or lodging-house, except an immigrant  lodging-house,  nor
  bar  his  right  to recover for so much of the debt as shall not be paid
  through such sale.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 209-A - Registration of Hotel and Motel Names.

§  209-a.  Registration  of  hotel  and  motel  names.  Any  person or
  corporation now owning or now engaged in and conducting the business  of
  an  hotel  or  motel  in  the state of New York may register the name by
  which said hotel or motel is known  and  designated  by  filing  in  the
  office of the secretary of state a petition subscribed by the petitioner
  and  affirmed  by him as true under the penalties of perjury, containing
  the facsimile of such name or designation  and  specifically  describing
  the  location  of  the  hotel  or  motel  to  be  known  by such name or
  designation, together with  the  name  and  address  of  the  person  or
  corporation  owning  or operating the hotel or motel in addition to such
  other recitals as the  secretary  of  state  may  require.  A  duplicate
  original or a certified copy of such petition shall also be filed in the
  office  of  the  clerk  of  the  county  in which said hotel or motel is
  situated and a copy of said petition shall be printed once each week for
  three consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in the county in  which
  said  hotel  or  motel  is located, and such person or corporation shall
  thereupon  have  the  right  to  the  exclusive  use  of  such  name  or
  designation  for  an  hotel  or motel in the state of New York. Where it
  appears that the required publication has been made and this article has
  been in all other respects complied with the secretary  of  state  shall
  deliver  to  such  person  or  corporation  so  filing  such  petition a
  certificate under his seal  of  the  record  of  such  filing  and  such
  certificate  shall be prima facie evidence of the right to the exclusive
  use in the state of New York of such name or designation by  the  person
  or  corporation therein named. Any person or corporation may so register
  the name of an hotel or motel about to be  erected,  provided,  however,
  that  in  the  event that such person or corporation shall not begin the
  construction of said hotel or  motel  within  one  year  thereafter  and
  prosecute the construction thereof with reasonable dispatch, said person
  or  corporation  shall be deemed to have abandoned the right to use such
  name or designation.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 209-B - Index of Registrants and Registered Names.

§  209-b.  Index of registrants and registered names. The secretary of
  state and the respective county clerks shall keep an alphabetical  index
  of  all  persons or corporations filing petitions under the authority of
  section two hundred nine-a, together with a similar index of  the  names
  and designations referred to therein. For each petition filed they shall
  receive a fee of fifty dollars.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 209-C - Registration of Identical, Similar or Misleading Names Prohibited.

§  209-c.  Registration  of  identical,  similar  or  misleading names
  prohibited. The secretary of state shall not record,  register  or  file
  any  name  or designation identical with or similar to any other name or
  designation  filed  or  registered  as  herein  provided  as  would   be
  calculated   to  deceive  or  mislead  the  public,  unless  such  prior
  registration shall have been revoked as  herein  provided.  The  supreme
  court  may,  in  an  action  brought  for  that purpose by any person or
  corporation aggrieved thereby against any other  person  or  corporation
  who  or  which  has  already  filed  or  registered  any  such  name  or
  designation, direct the revocation of any  such  registration  where  it
  shall  be determined that the person who has already registered the same
  has not the right to use such name or designation because of  the  prior
  use  thereof  by  another.   No person other than the proprietor of such
  name or designation, which has been filed in the office of the secretary
  of state and in the office of the county  clerk,  as  aforesaid,  shall,
  without   the   written  consent  of  such  proprietor,  in  any  manner
  whatsoever, either directly or indirectly, use such name or designation,
  or any other name or designation for the name of an hotel  or  motel  in
  the  state  of New York which may be so similar as to deceive or mislead
  the public. Any person or corporation may assign to any other person  or
  corporation all right, title and interest in, to and under the aforesaid
  certificate of the secretary of state. Nonuse of the name or designation
  described in any certificate of the secretary of state for the period of
  one  year  shall operate as an abandonment of the right to use such name
  or designation thereafter.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 209-D - Penalties for Violation.

§  209-d. Penalties for violation. Any person or corporation violating
  any provisions of sections two hundred nine-a, two  hundred  nine-b  and
  two  hundred nine-c shall be liable to a penalty of ten dollars for each
  day such violation shall  continue  after  sixty  days'  written  notice
  calling  attention  to  such violation, to be recovered by the aggrieved
  party. Any person or corporation who  has  been  granted  a  certificate
  pursuant  to  the  foregoing provisions hereof which shall not have been
  thereafter  revoked  shall  have  the  right  of  injunction.   In   any
  prosecution  or  action  hereunder,  the  aforesaid  certificate  of the
  secretary of state shall be prima facie evidence of  the  right  to  the
  exclusive use of any such name or designation, where proof of such right
  is necessary.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 209-E - Preservation of Existing Remedies; Use of True Name.

§ 209-e. Preservation of existing remedies; use of true name.  Nothing
  in  this  article shall prevent, lessen, impeach, or avoid any remedy at
  law or in equity which any party aggrieved by any wrongful  use  of  any
  such  name  or  designation  might  have had if the foregoing provisions
  relating to the registration of  hotel  or  motel  names  had  not  been
  enacted;  nor  shall  the  same  be retroactive; nor shall any person be
  prohibited from using his or her own true name in  connection  with  the
  operation   of  any  hotel  or  motel  now  in  existence  or  hereafter
  constructed.
2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 209-F - Notice of Assignment.

§  209-f.  Notice  of  assignment.  Upon  the  assignment  of any name
  registered as provided  in  this  article,  a  written  notice  of  such
  assignment, subscribed and acknowledged by the assignor, may be filed in
  each  public  office in which such name is registered, and thereupon the
  assignee named therein shall be deemed to be the proprietor of such name
  for all purposes of this article.