Miscellaneous Laws 



shall cause appropriate proceedings in the name of the people of 

 the state of Xew York to be commenced and prosecuted in the 

 proper courts of the state without delay for the enforcement of 

 the penalties therefor; except that in the city of ^ew York the 

 commissioner of the mayor's bureau of weights and measures shall 

 in cases where he acts, after notifying in writing the person so 

 accused of such accusation certify the result to the attorney- 

 general, with a copy of the result of the examination duly au- 

 thenticated under oath by the official making such accusation. 

 Such attorney-general shall cause appropriate proceedings in the 

 name of the people of the state of New Y'ork to be commenced 

 and prosecuted in the courts of the state of Xew York without 

 delay for the enforcement of the penalties therefor. The state 

 superintendent of weights and measures with the co-operation of 

 the chief or principal weights and measures officials of the cities of 

 the first class shall establish uniform tolerances or amounts of 

 reasonable variation and shall make uniform rules and regulations 

 for carrying out the provisions of sections sixteen, sixteen-a, 

 seventeen, seventeen-a and seventeeu-b. {As added by chapter 81 

 of the Laws of 1912.) 



§ 18-a. Penalties. A person violating any of the provisions of 

 sections sixteen, sixteen-a, sixteen-b, seventeen, seventeen-b, shall 

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

 than one hundred dollars for the first and second violations, and 

 by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five 

 hundred dolhirs for subsequent violations. (As amended hy 

 chapter 420 of ilie Laws of 1913.) 



§ 253. Presser of hay and straw defined; correct scales to be 

 used; bales to be marked. The term '^ pressor " as used in this and 

 tlio following sections of this ai'ticlc shall mean the person, tii'in, 

 association or corporation owning or Imviiig possession ami operat- 

 ing the hay press. A presser who presses hay or straw for market 

 slinll use correct scales, jtrdjxM-Iy scaled. I'verv presser of hay 

 or straw t'oi- market shall mark each bale of any of such com- 

 modities pressed by him wiih his name and business address and 

 the correct weight of the hale. These markings shall be made 



