Senate Bill S2358

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires rebates to be provided to consumer at the time of purchase

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Consumer Protection Committee

  • 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-S2358 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5472
Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §391-q, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S2687, A7635
2013-2014: S1939, A4318

2009-S2358 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires all rebates to be provided to a purchaser at the time of the purchase of the good or service to which the rebate applies; provides for a civil penalty of not less than one hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars for each violation.

2009-S2358 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S2358 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2358

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 18, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  STACHOWSKI  -- 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  requiring
  rebates to be provided at the time of purchase

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

  Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
391-q to read as follows:
  S 391-Q. REBATES. 1. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "REBATE"  SHALL
MEAN  THE RETURN TO A PURCHASER OF ANY GOOD OR SERVICE OF ANY PORTION OF
THE PURCHASE PRICE THEREOF OR A SPECIFIC MONETARY AMOUNT.
  2. EVERY REBATE SHALL BE PROVIDED TO A PURCHASER AT THE TIME AND PLACE
OF RETAIL PURCHASE OF THE GOOD OR SERVICE TO WHICH THE REBATE APPLIES.
  3. ANY PERSON, FIRM, CORPORATION OR ASSOCIATION OFFERING A REBATE  WHO
VIOLATES  THIS  SECTION  SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A CIVIL PENALTY OF NOT LESS
THAN ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS NOR MORE THAN ONE  THOUSAND  DOLLARS  FOR  EACH
SUCH VIOLATION.
  S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07881-01-9

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