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§ 435. False labels. — A person, who, with intent to defraud: 1. Puts upon 

 an article of merchandise, or upon a cask, bottle, stopper, vessel, case, cover, 

 wrapper, package, band, ticket, label, or other thing, containing or covering 

 such an article, or with wliich sucli an article is intended to be sold, or is sold, 

 any false description or other indication of or respecting the kind, numl)er, 

 quantity, weiglit or measure of such article, or any part thereof, or the place 

 or country where it was manufactured or produced or the quality or grade 

 of any such article, if tlie quality or grade tliereof is required by law to be 

 marked, branded or otherwise indicated on or with such article; or, 



2. Sells or offers for sale an article, which to his knowledge is falsely 

 described or indicated upon any such package, or vessel containing the same, 

 or labeled thereupon, in any of the particulars specified; or, 



3. Sells or exposes for sale any goods in bulk to which no name or trade- 

 mark shall be attached, and orally or otherwise represents that such goods 

 are the manufacture or production of some, other than the actual manufacturer 

 or producer, in a case where the punishment for such offense is not specially 

 I)rovided for otherwit;e by statute, 



Is guilty of a misdemanor. 



§ 430. Using false marks as to manufacture. — A person, Avho, with intent 

 to defraud or to enable another to defraud any person, manufactures or 

 knowingly sells or causes to be manufactured or sold, any article, marked, 

 stamped or l)randed or incased or inclosed in any box, bottle or wrapper, 

 having tliereupon any engraving or printed label, stamp, imprint, mark or 

 trade-mark which article is not the manufacture, workmansliip or production 

 of the person named, indicated or denoted by such marking, stamping or 

 branding, or by or upon such engraving, printed label, stamp, imprint, mark 

 or trade-mark, is guilty of a mindemeanor. 



PRELIMINARY REGULATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS UNDER CHAPTER 



8i OF THE LAWS OF 1912. 



Under the provisions of chapter 81 of the Laws of 1912 commodities must 

 be sold by weight, measure or numerical count. In establisliing rules and 

 regulations, as provided for by such chapter, it has been deemed wise and 

 proper to establish certain regulations at once. 



The following regulations have been prepared by the Superintendent of 

 \Yeights and Measures and the chief or principal weights and measures of- 

 ficials of tlie cities of the first class, namely: 



F. Reichmaxn, Superintendent of Weights and Measures of the State of 

 New York. 



J. L. Walsh, Commissioner of Weights and Measures of the City of New 

 York. 



C. J. Quixx, Sealer of Weights and Measures of the City of Buffalo. 



J. H. Stkpiienson, Sealer of Weights and INIeasures of the City of Rochester. 



(4) Cumtnodifics in glass bottles or jars. Commodities in glass bottles 

 sliall sliow the contents in one of the following ways: 



1. The capacity in terms of gallons, quarts, pints, or half pints, or in 

 terms of fluid ounces, may be blown in the side or neck of the bottle. Such 

 letters shall be at least three-eighths of an inch (%") in height for bottles 



