New York Laws
Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses
206-C - Frauds on Guests of Hotels, Boarding Houses, Rooming-Houses and Lodging Houses.

§ 206-c. Frauds on guests of hotels, boarding houses, rooming-houses
and lodging houses. A person who for purposes of gain and by means of
any false statement or representation regarding a hotel, boarding house,
rooming-house or lodging house, shall divert or attempt to divert any
traveler or any other person to another hotel, boarding house,
rooming-house or lodging house, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

The making of a false statement regarding a hotel, boarding house,
rooming-house or lodging house, coupled with a suggestion or
recommendation to patronize another hotel, boarding house, rooming-house
or lodging house shall be presumptive evidence that the act of the
defendant was committed for the purpose of gain.

Any person who shall pay, or offer to pay any money or other reward to
another for diverting patrons from one hotel, boarding house,
rooming-house or lodging house to another, knowing that such diversion
was effected in the manner herein prohibited, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.

In any prosecution of a person for payment or offer of payment of
money or other reward in violation of this section, proof of prior
notice to the defendant that the person to whom payment was made or
offered has at any time diverted patronage from one hotel, boarding
house, rooming-house or lodging house to another by means of false
representation, shall be presumptive evidence that such defendant knew
that the diversion complained of was effected by false statements or
representations in violation of this section.