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§ 26. Manufacture and sale of imitation butter prohibited. 

 Kg person, by himself, his agents or employes, shall produce or 

 manufacture out of or from any animal fats or animal or vegeta- 

 ble oils not produced from unadulterated milk, or cream from the 

 same, any article or product in imitation or semblance of natural 

 butter produced from pure, unadulterated milk or cream of the 

 same; nor shall any person solicit or take orders for the same, or 

 offer the same for sale, or mix, compound with or add to milk, 

 cream or butter any acids or other deleterious substance, or any 

 animal fats or animal or vegetable oils not produced from milk or 

 cream, so as to produce any article or substance or any human 

 food in imitation or in semblance of natural butter, nor sell, keep 

 for sale or offer for sale any article, substance or compound made, 

 manufactured or produced in violation of the provisions of this 

 section, whether such article, substance or compound shall be 

 made or produced in this state or elsewhere. 



§ 2. Section four hundred and eight-a of the penal code is 

 amended as follows: 



§ 40Sa, Violations of agricultural law. Any person who dis- 

 regards, disobeys or violates any proclamation, notice, order or 

 regulation, lawfully issued or prescribed by the commissioner of 

 agriculture for the suppression or prevention of the spread of 

 infectious or contagious diseases among domestic animals, or 

 who violates any of the provisions of sections eighty and eighty- 

 two of article five of the agricultural law, is guilty of a misde- 

 meanor; every person who violates any of the provisions of article 

 two of said chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be pun- 

 ished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than 

 two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment of not less than one 

 month nor more than six months, or by both such fine and im- 

 prisonment, for the first offense, and by six months imprisonment 

 for the second offense; and any person who violates any of the 

 provisions of article three of said chapter is guilty of a misde- 

 meanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dol- 

 lars nor more than one hundred dollars, 



§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 



