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N.Y. General Business Law § 392-b: False labels and misrepresentations

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  1. General Business Law
  2. Article 26. Miscellaneous

§ 392-b. False labels and misrepresentations. A person, who with

intent to defraud:

1. Puts upon an article of merchandise, or upon a cask, bottle,

stopper, vessel, case, cover, wrapper, package, band, ticket, label or

other thing, containing or covering such an article, or with which such

an article is intended to be sold, or is sold, any false description or

other indication of or respecting the kind, number, quantity, weight or

measure of such article, or any part thereof, or the place or country

where it was manufactured or produced or the quality or grade of any

such article, if the quality or grade thereof is required by law to be

marked, branded or otherwise indicated on or with such article; or

2. Sells or offers for sale an article, which to his knowledge is

falsely described or indicated upon any such package, or vessel

containing the same, or label thereupon, in any of the particulars

specified; or

3. Sells or exposes for sale any goods in bulk to which no name or

trademark shall be attached, and orally or otherwise represents that

such goods are the manufacture or production of some other than the

actual manufacturer or producer, in a case where the punishment for such

offense is not specially provided for otherwise by statute, is guilty of

a misdemeanor.

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