New York Consolidated Laws, General Business Law - GBS § 399-eee. Disabling of services to stolen wireless phones

1. Definitions.  For purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

2. Limiting wireless service to stolen phones.  Any person, firm, partnership, association, limited liability company, corporation, or other business entity providing wireless telephone services, as such term is defined in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section twelve hundred twenty-five-c of the vehicle and traffic law, shall have and maintain a program reasonably designed to prevent the activation on its network of a phone with an international mobile equipment identity number (IMEI) that appears on the GSMA block list.

3. Reporting of stolen wireless phones.  Any person, firm, partnership, association, limited liability company, corporation, or other business entity providing wireless telephone services, as such term is defined in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section twelve hundred twenty-five-c of the vehicle and traffic law, who is informed by a retail store operator of the theft of new, non-activated wireless phones, shall take reasonable steps to report the IMEI numbers of those stolen phones to the GSMA block list.

4. Disabling of service to stolen wireless phone.  Any person, firm, partnership, association, limited liability company, corporation, or other business entity providing wireless telephone services, as such term is defined in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section twelve hundred twenty-five-c of the vehicle and traffic law, shall have and maintain a program reasonably designed to enable it to suspend service to a stolen wireless phone upon notification by a verified customer that a wireless phone has been stolen.  Such program shall require the person or business entity providing wireless telephone services take reasonable steps to report the IMEI numbers of the stolen phone to the GSMA block list.