2014 New York Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 29-A - (511 - 520-D) UNAUTHORIZED OR IMPROPER USE OF CREDIT CARDS AND DEBIT CARDS
518-A - Presentment of social security number as condition for accepting a check, traveler's check, gift certificate, money order or other negotiable instrume

  518-a.  Presentment  of  social  security  number  as condition for
  accepting a check, traveler's check, gift certificate,  money  order  or
  other  negotiable instrument in payment of sales transaction prohibited.
  1. No  seller  in  any  sales  transaction  shall  record  on  a  check,
  traveler's  check,  gift  certificate,  money  order,  other  negotiable
  instrument or attachment thereto, a social security number of a buyer in
  such transaction as a condition for accepting such instrument as payment
  in  such  transaction.  Nothing  contained  in  this  subdivision  shall
  prohibit  a  seller  from  so  recording  the  identifying number from a
  buyer's driver's license where such number is identical to or is a  part
  of the buyer's social security number.
2.  A  violation of the provisions of this section shall be punishable
  by a civil fine not to exceed one hundred dollars for a first  violation
  and not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars for subsequent violations.