N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 176: Declaration of policy and purpose

§ 176. Declaration of policy and purpose. The legislature hereby finds

and declares that voluntary and orderly conversion to the metric system

of weights and measures is of vital importance to the economy of the

state. It is hereby declared to be the public policy of this state to

encourage the gradual implementation of the metric system throughout the

state's government, industry, commerce, business, education and

agriculture. This article is enacted in the exercise of the public power

in order to encourage such implementation and to provide a revised code

of weights and measures which will be responsive to the present and

future needs of commerce, industry and consumers. The legislature finds

and declares that the coordination and administration of this unitary

regulatory system governing weights and measures throughout the state

should be, and is hereby, vested in the commissioner of agriculture and

markets and that enforcement of this article by the counties and cities

of the state shall be under his supervision.