Legislation Details

File #: Int 0847-2026    Version: Name: Providing outreach and education on consumer protection issues that affect tourists.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
Committee: Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
On agenda: 4/16/2026
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing outreach and education on consumer protection issues that affect tourists
Sponsors: Sandra Ung, Lincoln Restler, Nantasha M. Williams, Shanel Thomas-Henry , Virginia Maloney , Chris Banks, Mercedes Narcisse, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 8
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) to establish and implement an outreach and education program to create awareness of common scams targeting and impacting tourists. The program would require DCWP to develop educational materials that include: identification of and safety tips for avoiding common scams; contact information for reporting scams in real time; information related to hotel service disruptions; identification of and rate information for pedicab drivers; identification of sightseeing guides, sightseeing buses, or horse drawn cabs; and instructions for filing a consumer complaint with the department. Educational materials would be required to be posted on DCWP’s website in multiple languages and updated annually. The bill would also make purely technical changes to the headings of four sections of the Administrative Code that established related outreach and education programs administered by DCWP.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 847-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 847, 3. Int. No. 847, 4. Memorandum in Support, 5. April 16, 2026 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 6. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-16-26, 7. Committee Report 4/29/26, 8. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 9. Hearing Testimony 4/29/26, 10. Proposed Int. No. 847-A - 5/8/26, 11. Proposed Int. No. 847-A - Fiscal Impact Statement- City Council, 12. Committee Report 5/13/26, 13. Int. No. 847-A (FINAL), 14. May 14, 2026 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 847-A

 

By Council Members Ung, Restler, Williams, Thomas-Henry, Maloney, Banks, Narcisse and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing outreach and education on consumer protection issues that affect tourists

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subchapter 1 of chapter 5 of title 20 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 20-706.6 to read as follows:

§ 20-706.6 Consumer protection outreach and education for tourists. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following term has the following meaning:

Designated citywide languages. The term “designated citywide languages” has the same meaning as set forth in section 23-1101.

b. The commissioner shall establish and implement an outreach and education program to create awareness of common deceptive trade practices targeting and impacting tourists.

c. When implementing such program pursuant to subdivision b, the commissioner shall develop educational materials for tourists and promote such materials in locations that tourists are likely to visit. Such educational materials shall include, but need not be limited to: (i) identification of and safety tips for avoiding common deceptive trade practices; (ii) contact information for reporting deceptive trade practices in real time; (iii) information related to hotel service disruptions required pursuant to section 20-851; (iv) identification of and rate information for pedicab drivers required pursuant to sections 20-258 and 20-260; (v) identification of sightseeing guides, sight-seeing buses or horse drawn cabs, and ticket sellers required pursuant to sections 20-245, 20-375, and 20-554;  and (vi) instructions for filing a consumer complaint with the department and relevant state and federal entities. The commissioner shall make all such educational materials available on the department’s website in English and in all designated citywide languages.

d. The commissioner shall review the educational materials made available on the department’s website on an annual basis and update such materials as needed on or before December 1 of each year.

e. The program established by this section shall commence no later than 120 days after the effective date of the local law that added this section.

§ 2. The section headings of sections 20-706.1, 20-706.3, 20-706.4, and 20-706.5, the section heading of section 20-706.1 as added by local law number 28 for the year 2015, of section 20-706.3 as added by local law number 100 for the year 2016, of section 20-706.4 as added by local law number 101 for the year 2016, and of section 20-706.5 as added by local law number 99 for the year 2016, are amended to read as follows:

§ 20-706.1 [Outreach] Consumer protection outreach and education [on consumer protection issues] for young adults.

§ 20-706.3 [Outreach] Consumer protection outreach and education [on consumer protection] for seniors.

§ 20-706.4 [Outreach] Consumer protection outreach and education [program] for immigrants [relating to consumer protection].

§ 20-706.5 Consumer protection outreach and education [program] for women.

§ 3. This local law takes effect immediately.

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