Bill Text: NJ S2476 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Limits cancelation and rescheduling fees for cosmetology and hairstyling, barbering, beauty culture, manicuring, and skin care specialty services in certain instances.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-12-09 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee [S2476 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-S2476-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator LINDA R. GREENSTEIN
District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)
SYNOPSIS
Limits cancelation and rescheduling fees for cosmetology and hairstyling, barbering, beauty culture, manicuring, and skin care specialty services in certain instances.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning cancelation and rescheduling fees for certain services and supplementing chapter 8 of Title 56 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. For the purposes of this section, "cosmetology and hairstyling," "barbering," "beauty culture," "manicuring," and "skin care specialty" shall have the meanings ascribed to those terms in section 3 of P.L.1984, c.205 (C.45:5B-3).
b. No establishment or place where one or more persons engage in cosmetology and hairstyling, barbering, beauty culture, manicuring, or skin care specialty shall charge a new or returning client any fee for canceling or rescheduling an appointment unless the client was given notification, orally or in writing, at the time when the appointment was made that a fee would apply and the client failed to notify the establishment more than 24 hours in advance of the appointment of the cancelation or request to reschedule. The amount of any cancelation or rescheduling fee shall not exceed 25 percent of the services requested at the time when the appointment was made.
c. A person who violates the provisions of this section shall be liable to a civil penalty of not more than $500 for the first violation, and not more than $1,000 for the second and any subsequent violation. The civil penalty shall be collected pursuant to the "Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999," P.L.1999, c.274 (C.2A:58-10 et seq.), in a summary proceeding before the municipal court having jurisdiction.
2. This act shall take effect on the first day of the third month following enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill prohibits establishments engaged in cosmetology and hairstyling, barbering, beauty culture, manicuring, and skin care specialty from charging cancelation or appointment rescheduling fees except in instances where a consumer was notified that a fee would apply and failed to cancel or reschedule more than 24 hours before a scheduled appointment. Under the bill, the amount of any cancelation or rescheduling fee may not exceed 25 percent of the services requested at the time when the appointment was made.
The penalty for a violation of the bill is a civil penalty of not more than $500 for the first violation, and not more than $1,000 for the second and any subsequent violation.
