Bill Text: NY A04570 | 2025-2026 | 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) 2025-02-04 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A04570 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A04570-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4570

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 4, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  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.
                                                                   LBD08753-01-5