N.Y. GBS Law § 204
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Register to be kept
Official statutory text
§ 204. Register to be kept. The owner, lessee, proprietor or manager\nof any hotel, motel, tourist cabins, camp, resort, tavern, inn, boarding\nor lodging house shall keep for a period of three years a register which\nshall show the name, residence, date of arrival and departure of his\nguests. Such records may be kept within the meaning of this section when\nreproduced on any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, micro-card,\nminiature photographic or other process which actually reproduced the\noriginal record.\n
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