New York General Business Law Article 22-A - CONSUMER PROTECTION FROM DECEPTIVE ACTS AND PRACTICES

• 349 - Deceptive Acts and Practices Unlawful.
  (a) Deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any business, trade or commerce or in the furnishing of any service in this state are...
• 349-a - Observant Consumer Protection Law.
  1. No person selling or exposing for sale any mezuzah or tefillin which, to the seller's knowledge, does not satisfy orthodox Hebrew ritual requirements shall...
• 349-b - Residential Telephone Equipment Advertising, Sale and Warranty Requirements.
  1. For the purpose of this section: (a) "Residential telephone equipment" shall mean customer premises equipment such as telephone handsets, designed for use on the...
• 349-b-1 - Voice Over Internet Protocol 911 Disclosure.
  1. For the purpose of this section: (a) "Consumer" or "purchaser" means a retail customer who purchases voice over internet protocol services for personal use...
• 349-c - Additional Civil Penalty for Consumer Frauds Against Elderly Persons.
  1. Definition. As used in this section elderly person means a person who is sixty-five years of age or older. 2. Supplemental civil penalty. (a)...
• 349-d - Energy Services Company Consumers Bill of Rights.
  1. For the purpose of this section: (a) "Energy services" shall mean electricity and/or natural gas; (b) "Energy services company" or "ESCO" shall mean an...
• 349-e - Counterfeit and Non-Functional Airbags.
  1. As used in this section: (a) "Airbag" shall mean any component of an inflatable restraint system, as such term is defined in section one...
• 350 - False Advertising Unlawful.
  False advertising in the conduct of any business, trade or commerce or in the furnishing of any service in this state is hereby declared unlawful.
• 350-a - False Advertising.
  1. The term "false advertising" means advertising, including labeling, of a commodity, or of the kind, character, terms or conditions of any employment opportunity if...
• 350-b - Disclosures Required in Advertisements Using the Title "Doctor".
  1. Any person who uses the title "doctor" in making representations for the purpose of inducing, or which are likely to induce, directly or indirectly,...
• 350-b-1 - Disclosures Required in Advertisements Using a Senior Specific Designation.
  1. For purposes of this section, "senior specific designation" shall mean a title, professional designation, credential, certification, or professional description that indicates the person has...
• 350-c - Notice of Proposed Action.
  Before the attorney-general commences an action pursuant to section three hundred fifty-d of this article he shall be required to give the person against whom...
• 350-d - Civil Penalty.
  Any person, firm, corporation or association or agent or employee thereof who engages in any of the acts or practices stated in this article to...
• 350-e - Construction.
  1. This article neither enlarges nor diminishes the rights of parties in private litigation except as provided in this section. 2. This article does not...
• 350-f - Exceptions.
  Nothing in this article shall apply to any television or sound radio broadcasting station or to any publisher or printer of a newspaper, magazine, or...
• 350-f-1 - After-The-Fact Referral Fees.
  1. No person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or other entity shall demand or receive a referral fee or compensation of any kind for (i) a...

Last modified: February 3, 2019