2014 New York Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 12 - (200 - 209-G) HOTELS AND BOARDING HOUSES
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.