2014 New York Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 9-A - (115 - 127) PASSAGE TICKETS
125 - Soliciting the surrender of tickets a misdemeanor.

  125. Soliciting the surrender of tickets a misdemeanor.  Any hotel,
  boarding-house, lodging-house or restaurant owner, proprietor,  manager,
  clerk  or  other  employee or any runner, guide, porter or solicitor who
  solicits in any manner any immigrant or  steerage  passenger  inward  or
  outward  bound,  having  a  railroad or steamship ticket, order or other
  instrument  entitling  or  purporting  to  entitle  such  passenger   to
  transportation  or conveyance on any railroad or steamship, to surrender
  such ticket, order or other instrument to  such  hotel,  boarding-house,
  lodging-house or restaurant owner, proprietor, manager or other employee
  or to any runner, guide, porter or solicitor or any other person for the
  purpose  of  detaining  any  such immigrant or steerage passenger in any
  such hotel,  boarding-house,  lodging-house,  or  restaurant,  shall  be
  guilty of a misdemeanor.