New York Consolidated Laws, General Business Law - GBS § 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.