N.Y. General Business Law § 206-c: Frauds on guests of hotels, boarding houses, rooming-houses and lodging houses

§ 206-c. Frauds on guests of hotels, boarding houses, rooming-houses

and lodging houses. A person who for purposes of gain and by means of

any false statement or representation regarding a hotel, boarding house,

rooming-house or lodging house, shall divert or attempt to divert any

traveler or any other person to another hotel, boarding house,

rooming-house or lodging house, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

The making of a false statement regarding a hotel, boarding house,

rooming-house or lodging house, coupled with a suggestion or

recommendation to patronize another hotel, boarding house, rooming-house

or lodging house shall be presumptive evidence that the act of the

defendant was committed for the purpose of gain.

Any person who shall pay, or offer to pay any money or other reward to

another for diverting patrons from one hotel, boarding house,

rooming-house or lodging house to another, knowing that such diversion

was effected in the manner herein prohibited, shall be guilty of a

misdemeanor.

In any prosecution of a person for payment or offer of payment of

money or other reward in violation of this section, proof of prior

notice to the defendant that the person to whom payment was made or

offered has at any time diverted patronage from one hotel, boarding

house, rooming-house or lodging house to another by means of false

representation, shall be presumptive evidence that such defendant knew

that the diversion complained of was effected by false statements or

representations in violation of this section.