N.Y. General Business Law § 331: Penalty for failing to publish

§ 331. Penalty for failing to publish. 1. Any person, partnership,

limited partnership, unincorporated joint-stock association or

corporation publishing in the state of New York, a newspaper, magazine,

book, pamphlet or any other periodical or printed publication which

omits, fails or neglects to carry out the provisions of the preceding

section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor for each issue of such

publication over which such neglect or failure so to do extends; and

upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars

nor more than five hundred dollars.

2. Whenever such publications are discovered and the identity and

address of neither the owner, the proprietor, the publisher or the

printer appears as required by this article and cannot be ascertained

after reasonable diligence, then upon a verified application of a peace

officer, acting pursuant to his special duties, or of any police officer

showing such circumstances, a magistrate, may issue an order directing

that such publications be seized and destroyed by such officer.