N.Y. General Business Law § 396-h: Fraudulent sale of poppies, forget-me-nots, daisies, flags and other articles sold for patriotic purposes

§ 396-h. Fraudulent sale of poppies, forget-me-nots, daisies, flags

and other articles sold for patriotic purposes. Any person, whether a

veteran soldier, sailor, marine or army nurse, or otherwise, who in the

promotion of his own interests, or to derive personal pecuniary benefit,

gain or profit, for himself or for any person, firm or corporation other

than an organization expressly designated and authorized to administer

veteran relief by the provisions of section one hundred sixty-eight of

the social welfare law, sells or offers to sell poppies, forget-me-nots,

daisies, flags or other articles sold for patriotic purposes, while

claiming that such sale or offer to sell is made as agent of, or for the

benefit of such organization authorized to administrate veteran relief,

is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than fifty

dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such

fine and imprisonment.