New York Laws
Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses
204 - Register to Be Kept.

ยง 204. Register to be kept. The owner, lessee, proprietor or manager
of any hotel, motel, tourist cabins, camp, resort, tavern, inn, boarding
or lodging house shall keep for a period of three years a register which
shall show the name, residence, date of arrival and departure of his
guests. Such records may be kept within the meaning of this section when
reproduced on any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, micro-card,
miniature photographic or other process which actually reproduced the
original record.