N.Y. General Business Law § 125: Soliciting the surrender of tickets a misdemeanor

§ 125. Soliciting the surrender of tickets a misdemeanor. Any hotel,

boarding-house, lodging-house or restaurant owner, proprietor, manager,

clerk or other employee or any runner, guide, porter or solicitor who

solicits in any manner any immigrant or steerage passenger inward or

outward bound, having a railroad or steamship ticket, order or other

instrument entitling or purporting to entitle such passenger to

transportation or conveyance on any railroad or steamship, to surrender

such ticket, order or other instrument to such hotel, boarding-house,

lodging-house or restaurant owner, proprietor, manager or other employee

or to any runner, guide, porter or solicitor or any other person for the

purpose of detaining any such immigrant or steerage passenger in any

such hotel, boarding-house, lodging-house, or restaurant, shall be

guilty of a misdemeanor.