S.B. 169
- *SB169*
SENATE BILL NO. 169–SENATOR DOÑATE
PREFILED FEBRUARY 3, 2025
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Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
SUMMARY—Prohibits a third-party restaurant reservation service
platform provider from engaging in certain activities.
(BDR 52-627)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State: No.
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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to trade practices; prohibiting a third-party
restaurant reservation service platform provider from
engaging in certain activities; providing penalties; and
providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
This bill enacts certain provisions relating to a third-party restaurant reservation 1
service platform, which this bill defines as an Internet website, online service or 2
mobile application which offers or arranges for a reservation for on-premises 3
service for a customer at a food dispensing establishment and which is owned and 4
operated by a person other than the person who owns the food dispensing 5
establishment. This bill also defines “third-party restaurant reservation service 6
platform provider” to mean a person who operates a third-party restaurant 7
reservation service platform. 8
This bill prohibits a third-party restaurant reservation service platform provider 9
from listing, advertising, promoting or selling a reservation for on-premises service 10
for a customer at a food dispensing establishment through the third-party restaurant 11
reservation service platform of the provider unless the provider has entered into a 12
written agreement with the food dispensing establishment or a designee of the food 13
dispensing establishment that expressly authorizes the provider to engage in such 14
activities. This bill provides that a third-party restaurant reservation service 15
platform provider who violates that prohibition is subject to a civil penalty of 16
$1,000 per day for the violation, recoverable by the Attorney General or district 17
attorney in a civil action. 18
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- *SB169*
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Chapter 597 of NRS is hereby amended by adding 1
thereto a new section to read as follows: 2
1. A third-party restaurant reservation service platform 3
provider shall not list, advertise, promote or sell a reservation for 4
on-premises service for a customer at a food dispensing 5
establishment through the third-party restaurant reservation 6
service platform of the provider unless the provider has entered 7
into a written agreement with either the food dispensing 8
establishment or a person to whom the food dispensing 9
establishment has, by contract, provided the authority to enter into 10
such written agreements that expressly authorizes the provider to 11
engage in such activities. 12
2. A third-party restaurant reservation service platform 13
provider who violates the provisions of subsection 1 is subject to a 14
civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 per day of the violation, and 15
each day’s continuance of the violation constitutes a separate and 16
distinct violation. The Attorney General or any district attorney of 17
this State may recover the penalty in a civil action brought in the 18
name of the State of Nevada in any court of competent 19
jurisdiction. 20
3. As used in this section: 21
(a) “Food dispensing establishment” has the meaning ascribed 22
to it in NRS 597.7629. 23
(b) “Third-party restaurant reservation service platform” 24
means an Internet website, online service or mobile application 25
which offers or arranges a reservation for on-premises service for 26
a customer at a food dispensing establishment and which is owned 27
and operated by a person other than the person who owns the food 28
dispensing establishment. 29
(c) “Third-party restaurant reservation service platform 30
provider” or “provider” means a person who operates a third-31
party restaurant reservation service platform. 32
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