N.Y. General Business Law § 229-a: Marking certain articles, silver, sterling silver or solid silver

§ 229-a. Marking certain articles, silver, sterling silver or solid

silver. Any person, firm, corporation or association who makes or sells

or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his or its possession, with

intent to sell or dispose of, any article of merchandise marked, stamped

or branded with the words "sterling" or "sterling silver," or incased or

inclosed in any box, package, cover or wrapper, or other thing in, by or

with which the said article is packed, inclosed or otherwise prepared

for sale or disposition, having thereupon any engraving or printed

label, stamp, imprint, mark or trade-mark, indicating or denoting by

such marking, stamping, branding, or engraving or printing that such

article is silver, sterling silver or solid silver, unless nine hundred

and twenty-five one-thousandths of the component parts of the metal of

which the said article is manufactured is pure silver, is guilty of a

misdemeanor.