N.Y. General Business Law § 97: Penalty for failure to issue bill of lading

§ 97. Penalty for failure to issue bill of lading. Any person who,

being the owner, master or agent of any vessel transporting merchandise

or property between ports of this state, departs with such vessel or

causes such vessel to depart from the port where such merchandise or

property is taken on board, without giving or tendering to the shipper

of such merchandise or property, if a bill of lading be demanded by such

shipper, a bill of lading or shipping document as provided by section

three hundred ninety-eight of this chapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor.