2014 New York Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 29-B - (523 - 526) PROHIBITED CREDIT CARD PRACTICES INVOLVING PROVIDERS OF TRAVEL SERVICES
523 - Definitions.

  523.  Definitions.  As  used  in this article: 1. "Travel services"
  means public transportation, public accommodations in hotels, motels  or
  motor  courts,  rental of motor vehicles or any other service related to
  travel.
2.  "Provider  of  travel  services"  means  every  person,  firm   or
  corporation engaged in the business of furnishing travel, transportation
  or vacation services.
2-a.   "Travel  agent"  shall  mean  any  person,  firm,  corporation,
  partnership or association, other than a common carrier or employee of a
  common carrier, that is  an  officially  appointed  agent  of  a  common
  carrier  and  meets  standards  no  less  than those required on January
  first, nineteen hundred ninety, for authorized  agents  of  the  airline
  reporting  corporation,  or  is  a registered member of the Cruise Lines
  International Association and who operates exclusively as an  agent  for
  cruise lines in the sale of cruise travel products or services, and who,
  as  a  legal  agent  of a supplier, sells or offers for sale any travel,
  transportation or vacation arrangements, or who negotiates for or  holds
  himself  or  herself  out by solicitation, advertisement or otherwise as
  one who sells,  provides,  furnishes  contracts  or  arranges  for  such
  travel, transportation or vacation services.
3. "Consumer" means a natural person.
4.  "Credit  card"  and  "issuer"  shall  have the same meanings as in
  article twenty-nine-A of this chapter.