Assembly Bill A379

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Prohibits rental vehicle companies from charging exorbitant rates for unfueled vehicles returned by customers

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A379 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §396-z, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A2489

2009-A379 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits rental vehicle companies from charging exorbitant rates for unfueled vehicles returned by customers; provides that any refueling charge imposed as part of a rental agreement shall be no higher than a rate which exceeds the highest retail rate of gasoline within a one-half mile radius of such rental vehicle company; imposes a fine of five hundred dollars per violation.

2009-A379 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   379

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. JEFFRIES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry

AN  ACT  to amend the general business law, in relation to rates charged
  for rental vehicle refueling

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Section  396-z  of the general business law is amended by
adding a new subdivision 16 to read as follows:
  16. (A) NO RENTAL VEHICLE COMPANY, AS  PART  OF  A  RENTAL  AGREEMENT,
SHALL  CHARGE  AN  AUTHORIZED  DRIVER A REFUELING RATE WHICH EXCEEDS THE
HIGHEST RETAIL PRICE OF GASOLINE CHARGED AT GASOLINE STATIONS OR CONVEN-
IENCE STORES WITHIN A ONE-HALF MILE RADIUS OF SUCH RENTAL VEHICLE COMPA-
NY.  SUCH CHARGE MAY BE IMPOSED WHEN A RETURNED RENTAL  VEHICLE'S  GASO-
LINE  TANK  IS  NOT  FULL  TO  CAPACITY, BASED ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
DOCUMENTED READING OF SUCH MOTOR VEHICLE'S FUEL GAUGE  OBTAINED  AT  THE
TIME  SUCH  MOTOR  VEHICLE WAS DELIVERED OR PICKED UP BY SUCH AUTHORIZED
DRIVER, AND THE SUBSEQUENT FUEL GAUGE READING TAKEN  AT  THE  TIME  SUCH
RENTED MOTOR VEHICLE IS RETURNED TO THE RENTAL VEHICLE COMPANY.
  (B)  ANY  VIOLATION  OF  THE  PROVISIONS  OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE
SUBJECT TO A FINE OF FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS PER VIOLATION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
have  become  a  law;  provided,  however,  that  the amendments made to
section 396-z of the general business law by section  one  of  this  act
shall  not  affect the repeal and reversion of such section and shall be
deemed to be repealed therewith.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00224-01-9

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