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N.Y. General Business Law § 69: Sale of incarcerated individual made goods

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  1. General Business Law
  2. Article 6-A. Convict Made Goods

§ 69. Sale of incarcerated individual made goods. No goods, wares, or

merchandise, manufactured, produced or mined wholly or in part by

incarcerated individuals, except incarcerated individuals or persons on

parole, probation, or release, shall be sold in this state to any

person, firm, association or corporation except that nothing in this

section shall be construed to forbid the sale of such goods produced in

the correctional facilities of this state to the state, the government

of the United States or to any state of the United States, or any

political subdivision thereof, or for any public institution owned or

managed and controlled by the state, or any political subdivision

thereof, as provided in section one hundred eighty-four of the

correction law, or any public corporation or eleemosynary association or

corporation funded in whole or in part by any federal, state or local

funds, or to forbid the sale, subject to the rules and regulations of

the head of the department or other like governmental authority having

jurisdiction, of any product resulting from occupational therapy within

any penal or correctional institution, as provided in section one

hundred ninety-seven of the correction law.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to forbid the sale of parts

and components produced by incarcerated individual labor in correctional

industry programs of the government of the United States or any state of

the United States, or any political subdivision thereof, to the

department of corrections and community supervision's division of

correctional industries for use in its manufacturing operations.

A violation of the provisions of this section shall constitute a

misdemeanor.

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