2023 New York Laws › JUD - Judiciary › Article 2 - General Provisions Relating to Courts and Judges › 30-A - Seal of Kings County and of the County Clerk, the Supreme Court and the County Court in Said County.

§  30-a.  Seal  of  Kings  county and of the county clerk, the supreme
  court and the county court in said county. 1. The county of  Kings,  the
  county  clerk  of said county and the supreme court and the county court
  therein, shall have and use the following seal:
Description of seal
The seal shall be approximately two and one-quarter inches in diameter
  and shall consist of two concentric circles. The space between the outer
  and inner circles shall be colored azure blue. In the upper part of said
  space shall be inscribed in capital letters the words:  "SEAL  OF  KINGS
  COUNTY," and in the lower part the words: "NEW YORK."
The  interior  of  the  inner  circle  shall  have  a  white  or plain
  background.  Upon such background shall be superimposed a relief map  of
  Kings  county.  The map shall be of orange color. It shall be subdivided
  by naming and delineating thereon the boundaries  of  the  six  original
  colonial  towns which now comprise the county of Kings and by specifying
  thereon the date of settlement or legal establishment of  each  of  such
  towns,  namely:   town of Flatlands, 1636; town of Gravesend, 1645; town
  of Brooklyn, 1646; town of Flatbush, 1652; town of  New  Utrecht,  1657;
  and town of Bushwick, 1660.
Above said map, inside the inner circle, shall be inscribed in capital
  letters  the  Dutch  maxim:  "EENDRAGHT MAAKT MAGT." The literal English
  translation of this maxim is: "Unity makes might." The meaning  of  this
  maxim is: "In union there is strength." The maxim was originally adopted
  by  Peter  Stuyvesant,  the  governor  from sixteen hundred forty-six to
  sixteen hundred sixty-four of the New Netherlands in  America.  It  also
  was inscribed upon the first flag of the city of Brooklyn.
Below said map, inside the inner circle, shall be inscribed in capital
  letters the words: "THE SIX ORIGINAL TOWNS."
The  orange  color  of  the map is intended to symbolize the "House of
  Orange" and to memorialize the Dutch who governed  the  New  Netherlands
  (which  included  the  said  six  original colonial towns) until sixteen
  hundred sixty-four, when they were occupied by the British.
Pictograph of seal
The following is an enlarged pictograph of said  seal  (the  blue  and
  orange coloring being omitted):
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2.  The  county  clerk  of Kings county shall cause the design of said
  seal (in black and white, the orange and blue colors being  omitted)  to
  be  engraved  upon  metal.  From  time  to time he shall obtain and make
  available, and keep in good order and repair as many  of  such  engraved
  metal seals as may be necessary for the proper performance of the duties
  of  his  office  and  of  the  duties  of the clerks and officers in the
  supreme court and county court authorized to  use  said  seal.  All  the
  expense  incurred  by  the county clerk incident to said seal shall be a
  county charge against the county of Kings.
3. Such seal shall be used and affixed only: (a) by the  county  clerk
  of  Kings  county  or by any deputy or clerk duly authorized by him; and

  (b) by any justice of the supreme court resident in Kings county  or  by
  any judge of the county court in said county, or by any clerk or officer
  duly authorized by said justice or judge.
4.  The  use  of said seal or of any replica or simulation thereof, in
  form or substance, by  any  unauthorized  person  or  for  any  wrongful
  purpose,  is  prohibited.  Any  violation  of  this prohibition shall be
  deemed to be a misdemeanor and punishable as such.