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SECTION 206-F
Information concerning services for human trafficking victims
General Business (GBS) CHAPTER 20, ARTICLE 12
§ 206-f. Information concerning services for human trafficking
victims. 1. For purposes of this section, "lodging facility" shall mean
any inn, hotel, motel, motor court or other establishment that provides
lodging to transient guests. Such term shall not include an
establishment treated as a dwelling unit for the purposes of any state
or local law or regulation or an establishment located within a building
that has five or less rooms for rent or hire and that is actually
occupied as a residence by the proprietor of such establishment.

2. Every keeper of a lodging facility shall make available in plain
view and in a conspicuous place and manner in the public restrooms, and
in the individual guest rooms, and near the public entrance or in
another conspicuous location in clear view of the public and the
employees where similar information is customarily displayed in such
lodging facility, informational cards developed by: (i) the office of
temporary and disability assistance in consultation with the New York
state interagency task force on human trafficking; or (ii) the United
States Department of Homeland Security; or (iii) the lodging facility.
All informational cards shall only contain information concerning
services for human trafficking victims and shall prominently include the
national human trafficking hotline telephone number. The office of
temporary and disability assistance in consultation with the New York
state interagency task force on human trafficking, shall develop a
notice which shall include the national human trafficking hotline
telephone number, to be made available to lodging facilities to post on
a voluntary basis.