New York § 518-A - 518-APresentment of social security number as condition for accepting a check, traveler's check, gift certificate, money order or other negoti...
Full text of New York New York Consolidated Laws § 518-A — 518-APresentment of social security number as condition for accepting a check, traveler's check, gift certificate, money order or other negoti..., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 518-A. 518-APresentment of social security number as condition for accepting a check, traveler's check, gift certificate, money order or other negoti...
§ 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.
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