2013 New York Consolidated Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 10-A - (155 - 159-A) TRUTH IN TRAVEL ACT
158 - Prohibited practices by travel consultants.

 
    § 158. Prohibited practices by travel consultants. It shall be illegal
  for   any  travel  consultant  and,  if  such  travel  consultant  is  a
  corporation, any officer or director thereof, to engage in any or all of
  the following enumerated practices:
    1. Knowingly misrepresent the quality or kind of service, type or size
  of aircraft, vehicle, ship or  train,  time  of  departure  or  arrival,
  points  served,  route  to  be  traveled,  stops  to  be  made, or total
  trip-time from point of  departure  to  destination  or  other  services
  available,  reserved  or  contracted  for in connection with any trip or
  tour.
    2. Knowingly misrepresent the fares and charges for transportation  or
  services in connection therewith.
    3.   Knowingly   advertise   or  otherwise  offer  for  sale  or  sell
  transportation or services in connection  therewith  at  less  than  the
  rates, fares and charges specified in the currently effective tariffs of
  the  carrier, who is engaged to provide such transportation or services,
  or knowingly offer or give rebates  or  other  concessions  thereon,  or
  knowingly   assist  or  permit  a  person  or  persons  to  obtain  such
  transportation or services at less than such  lawful  rates,  fares  and
  charges.
    4. Knowingly misrepresent that special priorities for reservations are
  available  when  such  special considerations are not in fact granted to
  members of the public generally.
    5.  Knowingly  sell  transportation  to  a  person  or  persons  on  a
  reservation  or  charter  basis  for  specified space, flight or time or
  knowingly represent that such definite reservation or charter is or will
  be available or has been arranged, without a binding commitment  with  a
  carrier  for  the  furnishing of such definite reservation or charter as
  represented or sold.
    6. Knowingly sell or issue tickets or other documents to passengers to
  be exchanged or  used  for  transportation  if  such  tickets  or  other
  documents  will  not  be  or  cannot  be legally honored by carriers for
  transportation.
    7. Knowingly misrepresent the requirements  that  must  be  met  by  a
  person or persons in order to qualify for charter or group fare rates.