Bill Text: NY A02592 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2592 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the suspension of a health club contract; allows a buyer to suspend payment for services until access to a facility or premises has been restored or the right to a credit for dues and fees paid.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A02592 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02592-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2592

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 19, 2021
                                       ___________

        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 the  suspension
          of a health club contract

          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  624-a to read as follows:
     3    § 624-a.  Rights  of  suspension  of  contracts  for  services.  Every
     4  contract  for  services at a health club, which is premised upon the use
     5  of such health club's facility or premises, and where the  use  of  such
     6  facility  or  premises  (1) has ceased, partially or fully, (2) has been
     7  rendered impossible or illegal, or (3) where the non-use of the facility
     8  or premises, or the non-rendering of service, has frustrated the purpose
     9  of the contract, shall provide the buyer, at the option  of  the  health
    10  club,  the right to suspend payment for all services until access to the
    11  facility or premises is restored, or the right to a credit for dues  and
    12  fees paid.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06206-01-1