§ 237 — Penalties

New York § 237

• Jurisdiction: New York
• Law GBS: General Business
• Art. 13-A: Platinum Stamping

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§ 237. Penalties. Any person or persons, firm, partnership,\ncorporation or association or any officer, director, employee or agent\nthereof who makes, or sells, or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in\nhis or its possession, with intent to sell or dispose of, any article as\nherein defined to which is applied any quality mark which does not\nconform to all the provisions of this article, or from which is omitted\nany mark required by the provisions of this article, shall be guilty of\na misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of\nnot more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than\nsix months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of\nthe court provided however, that it shall be a defense to any\nprosecution under this article for the defendant to prove that the said\narticle was manufactured and marked with the intention of and for\npurposes of exportation from the United States and that the said article\nwas either actually exported from the United States to a foreign country\nwithin six months after date of manufacture thereof with the bona fide\nintention of being sold in the said country and of not being\nre-imported, or that it was delivered within six months after date of\nmanufacture thereof to a person, firm or corporation whose exclusive\ncustomary business is the exportation of such articles from the United\nStates.\n