N.Y. Navigation Law § 40-a: Manufacture and sale of outboard motors

§ 40-a. Manufacture and sale of outboard motors. No outboard motor

manufactured after January first, nineteen hundred eighty shall be sold

or offered for commercial sale by a dealer in this state unless such

motor shall have permanently engraved thereon by the manufacturer an

identifying serial number. Such serial mark shall be of a permanent

nature so as to prevent or discourage the removal, defacing, alteration

or destruction thereof. Anyone violating the provisions of this section

shall be guilty of a violation punishable by a fine of not less than one

hundred nor more than two hundred fifty dollars.