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Assembly Bill A9381

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to unauthorized rental car use

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2025-A9381 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §396-z, Gen Bus L; amd §165.05, Pen L

2025-A9381 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Amends provisions relating to unauthorized rental car use; authorizes a rental vehicle company to regain custody of a rental vehicle which is not returned at the end of the rental agreement including repossession.

2025-A9381 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9381
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 19, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN  ACT to amend the general business law and the penal law, in relation
   to unauthorized rental car use
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  14  of section 396-z of the general business
 law, as amended by chapter 109 of the laws of 2018, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   14.  (A)  (1)  A  RENTER  MAY NOT CONTINUE CUSTODY OF A RENTAL VEHICLE
 BEYOND THE PERIOD SET FORTH IN THE RENTAL AGREEMENT  UNLESS  THE  RENTAL
 VEHICLE COMPANY HAS CONSENTED IN WRITING TO EXTEND SUCH PERIOD.
   (2)  A  RENTAL  VEHICLE COMPANY IS AUTHORIZED TO REGAIN CUSTODY OF THE
 RENTAL VEHICLE REGISTERED TO SUCH COMPANY SUBJECT TO THE PROCEDURES  SET
 FORTH  IN  SUBPARAGRAPH  THREE  OF  THIS PARAGRAPH WHERE A RENTER HAVING
 CUSTODY OF A VEHICLE PURSUANT TO A RENTAL AGREEMENT WHEREBY SUCH VEHICLE
 IS TO BE RETURNED TO THE RENTAL VEHICLE COMPANY AT A DATE AND TIME SPEC-
 IFIED IN THE RENTAL AGREEMENT:
   (I) INTENTIONALLY RETAINS OR  WITHHOLDS  POSSESSION  OF  THE  VEHICLE,
 WITHOUT THE WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE RENTAL VEHICLE COMPANY; OR
   (II)  OBTAINS CUSTODY OF THE VEHICLE THROUGH MATERIALLY FALSE OR FRAU-
 DULENT PRETENSES, REPRESENTATIONS, OR PROMISES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMIT-
 ED TO THE USE OF ANOTHER PERSON'S PERSONAL  IDENTIFYING  INFORMATION  AS
 DEFINED IN SECTION 190.77 OF THE PENAL LAW; OR
   (III)  FAILS  TO REMIT PAYMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RENTAL AGREEMENT
 AFTER NOTIFICATION OF ARREARS BY THE RENTAL VEHICLE COMPANY; OR
   (IV) CONTINUES SUCH CUSTODY FOR A  PERIOD  OF  MORE  THAN  TWENTY-FOUR
 HOURS  AFTER  THE  RENTER  HAS  BEEN  NOTIFIED,  IN  ACCORDANCE WITH THE
 PROVISIONS OF SUBPARAGRAPH THREE OF THIS PARAGRAPH, THAT THE VEHICLE  IS
 POSSESSED  BEYOND  THE PERIOD SPECIFIED IN THE RENTAL AGREEMENT AND MUST
 BE RETURNED TO THE RENTAL VEHICLE COMPANY.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14256-01-5
              

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