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2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 13-A › 160-E - Making and Filing of Invoice.

§ 160-e. Making  and  filing of invoice.  Every person, other than the
  producer, in selling eggs to a retailer, shall furnish to such  retailer
  an  invoice showing the exact grade or quality of such eggs according to
  the standards prescribed by the commissioner of agriculture and markets.
  If any of the eggs covered by the invoice have been in cold storage,  as
  defined  in article nineteen of this chapter, for more than thirty days,
  either within or without the state, the invoice, in addition to  showing
  the  grade  or  quality  of  such  eggs, shall indicate the fact of such
  storage by the use of the words "cold storage" or "refrigerator." A copy
  of such invoice shall be kept on file by  the  person  selling  and  the
  retailer  at  their  respective places of business for a period of sixty
  days, and shall be available and open for inspection at  all  reasonable
  times by the state department of agriculture and markets.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 13-B › 160-H - Grapes; Definitions.

§ 160-h. Grapes;  definitions.    The term "package," wherever used in
  this article, shall mean a basket, box or other container  the  contents
  of which can be adequately inspected. The terms "shipment," or "ship for
  sale," wherever used in this article, shall mean movement to market in a
  railroad  car,  motor truck or other medium of transportation, but shall
  not be  construed  to  include  the  process  of  delivery  to  a  local
  warehouse, shipping station or processor.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 13-B › 160-I - Grades or Standards; Establishment; Sale.

§ 160-i. Grades  or  standards; establishment; sale.  The commissioner
  is hereby authorized and empowered, after  investigation,  to  establish
  and  promulgate  official  standards of quality for grading, classifying
  and packing grapes packed or repacked within the state,  and  to  change
  any  of  them from time to time. In establishing such standards he shall
  take into account, among other things, the factors of  maturity,  color,
  firmness  of  attachment to capstems, compactness of bunches, and damage
  caused by freezing or by disease or insects. The official  standards  so
  established  and  promulgated  shall  not be lower in their requirements
  than  the  minimum  requirements   of   the   official   standards   for
  corresponding  grades  of grapes as promulgated from time to time by the
  secretary of agriculture of  the  United  States,  which  standards  are
  commonly known as "United States grades."
From  and  after  the establishment of specific grades or standards of
  quality as hereinbefore  provided,  grapes  in  packages  shall  not  be
  shipped  for  sale  or thereafter sold or exposed for sale except by the
  grades or standards so established; provided, however, that  grapes  not
  graded  and  classified as to quality may be shipped for sale or sold or
  exposed for sale as unclassified if so marked in a conspicuous manner on
  an irremovable-part of the container in  accordance  with  rules  to  be
  adopted by the commissioner as hereinafter provided.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 13-B › 160-J - Marking Requirements.

§ 160-j. Marking  requirements.  Grapes in packages, if not definitely
  marked  as  unclassified  as  hereinbefore  provided,  shall,  prior  to
  shipment,  be marked in a plain and conspicuous manner with the name and
  address of the person or association under whose  authority  the  grapes
  are  packed and on an irremovable part of the container with a statement
  of (1) the grade, and (2) the net quantity or weight of contents.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 13-B › 160-K - Prohibitions; Presumption; Rules and Regulations.

§ 160-k. Prohibitions;  presumption;  rules  and  regulations.   1. No
  person shall sell, expose for sale, or transport for sale grapes in open
  or closed packages if the package containing them, the label on them, or
  any advertising accompanying them shall bear any  statement,  design  or
  device  regarding  the  grapes which shall be false or misleading in any
  particular.
2. No person shall sell, expose for sale, or transport  for  sale,  in
  either  open or closed packages, grapes packed in such a manner that the
  face or shown surface shall not be an average of  the  contents  of  the
  package.
3.  When  grapes  in  packages  are  delivered to a common carrier for
  shipment, such delivery shall be presumptive evidence  that  the  grapes
  are intended for sale.
The commissioner shall adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations
  to  supplement and give full effect to the provisions of this article as
  he may deem necessary.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 13-C - Lettuce › 160-P - Definitions.

§ 160-p. Definitions.  As used in this article:
1.  The  words  "closed  package"  mean  a crate, box, carton or other
  container, the contents of which cannot be adequately inspected  without
  opening.
2. The word "lettuce" means iceberg type lettuce.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 13-C - Lettuce › 160-Q - Grades and Branding.

§ 160-q. Grades and branding. 1. The commissioner is hereby authorized
  and  empowered,  after  investigation  and  public  hearing,  to fix and
  promulgate official standards including good delivery standards  enroute
  or at destination for grading and classifying lettuce packed or repacked
  within  the  state,  and  to  change  any  of them from time to time. In
  establishing such standards he shall,  among  other  things,  take  into
  account  so  far  as  applicable  the  factors  of  maturity, condition,
  solidity, color, size, temperature control and freedom from defects  and
  injury.  The  official  standards  so fixed and promulgated shall not be
  lower in  their  requirements  than  the  minimum  requirements  of  the
  official  standards  for  corresponding grades of lettuce as promulgated
  from time to time by the secretary of agriculture of the United  States,
  which standards are commonly known as the "United States grades".
2.  Each  closed  package  of  lettuce, when sold, exposed for sale or
  transported for sale, shall be  plainly  and  conspicuously  branded  to
  show:
a. That such lettuce is "cull lettuce", if such is the fact.
b. Number of heads.
c. That the package was vacuum cooled if such be the fact.
d. Name and address of packer or repacker.
The cull identification requirement of paragraph a of this subdivision
  shall  not  apply to closed packages of lettuce which are being held for
  sale at retail in the retailer's own storage  facilities  or  which  are
  being  transported  from  such  storage facilities to stores operated by
  such retailer.
3. In case the branding upon any closed package of lettuce is changed,
  the person making the change shall cancel the name and  address  of  the
  original packer and substitute therefor his own name and address.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 13-C - Lettuce › 160-R - Sale of Lettuce.

§ 160-r. Sale of lettuce.  1. No person shall sell, expose for sale or
  transport  for  sale  within  this state, regardless of place of origin,
  lettuce in closed packages which are not branded as required by  section
  160-q,  except  that  lettuce packaged by a retailer and sold or offered
  for sale by such retailer, need only be branded to show that it is  cull
  lettuce, if such is the case.
2. Cull lettuce offered or exposed for sale at retail shall be plainly
  and conspicuously marked as "culls".
3. No person shall sell, offer for sale, or transport for sale lettuce
  in  open  or  closed  packages,  or  unwrapped lettuce, if the branding,
  representation as to grade, or any statement, design or device appearing
  on the label, package or bulk display shall be false  or  misleading  in
  any particular.
4.  When  lettuce  in closed packages is delivered to a common carrier
  for shipment, such delivery  shall  be  presumptive  evidence  that  the
  lettuce is intended for sale.
5.  No  lettuce shall be sold in closed cardboard containers unless it
  is vacuum cooled.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 13-D - Manufacture, Distribution and Sale of Maple Syrup and Sugar › 160-U - Manufacture, Distribution and Sale of Maple Syrup and Sugar.

§ 160-u. Manufacture,  distribution and sale of maple syrup and sugar.
a. Definitions:
(1) "Maple sap" means the sap or sweet water obtained by  tapping  the
maple tree.
(2)  "Maple  syrup" means syrup made exclusively by the evaporation of
pure maple sap.
(3) "Maple sugar" means sugar made exclusively by the  evaporation  of
pure maple syrup.
(4)  "Grade"  shall  mean the standards for maple syrup or maple sugar
promulgated by the commissioner  of  agriculture  and  markets,  as  the
official grades of maple syrup or maple sugar for the state of New York.
b.  Every  consumer package of maple syrup offered or exposed for sale
shall be plainly marked as to the grade.
c. Advertising. Any person who uses roadside signs within the state or
who uses  publications  printed  or  distributed  within  the  state  to
advertise  maple syrup and who quotes a price therein, shall specify the
grade of the syrup in a plain and conspicuous manner.
d. The commissioner of agriculture and markets shall promulgate  after
public  hearing,  rules  and  regulations to carry out the provisions of
this statute.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 13-E - Prohibition of Dumping Certain Agricultural Products › 160-V - Dumping of Certain Agricultural Products; Prohibited.

§  160-v. Dumping of certain agricultural products; prohibited.  1. No
  person, firm, partnership, corporation or association that sells, offers
  for sale or distributes  any  food  product  shall  dump,  or  otherwise
  discard   in   a   manner  reasonably  and  causally  connected  to  the
  contamination of  food,  any  cull  or  waste  pile  consisting  of  any
  agricultural  product  not  produced  in  this state, including, but not
  limited to, vegetables, fruits and other like produce falling below  the
  official   standard   or  grade  of  quality  for  such  product.  After
  consultation with the New York state college  of  agriculture  and  life
  sciences   at   Cornell  university,  the  commissioner  shall  identify
  establishments and practices most susceptible to  threats  from  out  of
  state  products,  and  promulgate  rules  and regulations for the proper
  disposal of any such cull or waste pile in  such  cases,  provided  that
  such  regulations  include options for landfill disposal, composting and
  deep burial.
2. Any person,  firm,  partnership,  corporation  or  association  who
  knowingly  violates  the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a
  violation, punishable by a fine of five hundred dollars  for  the  first
  offense  and  one  thousand  dollars  for  a  second and each subsequent
  offense. If site clean-up or decontamination is deemed necessary by  the
  commissioner  as  a  result of a violation of this section, the offender
  shall also be subject to a fine equal to the sum of any and all expenses
  incurred in the clean-up or decontamination of such dumping site and the
  costs reasonably related to recalling any contaminated food  distributed
  in the marketplace.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 14 - Prevention and Control of Disease in Trees and Plants; Insect Pests; Sale of Fruit-Bearing Trees › 161 - Definitions.

§ 161. Definitions.  As used in this article:
1.  The  words  "nursery  stock" shall apply to and include all trees,
  shrubs, plants and vines and parts thereof.
2. The words "insect pests" mean insects injurious to plant and  plant
  products.
3.  The  words  "plant  and plant products" mean trees, shrubs, vines,
  annuals, biennials, perennials, vegetables,  fruit,  forage  and  cereal
  plants  and all other plant cuttings, grafts, scions, buds and all other
  parts of plants, and fruit, vegetables, roots, bulbs,  seeds,  wood  and
  lumber.
4. The words "plant diseases" mean fungi, bacteria, nematodes, viruses
  and  plant  parasites  injurious  to  plants and plant products, and the
  pathological condition in plants and plant  products  caused  by  fungi,
  bacteria, nematodes, viruses and plant parasites.
5.  The  word  "nursery"  means  the  grounds and premises, private or
  public, on or in which nursery stock is propagated, grown or  cultivated
  for  the  purpose  of distribution or selling the same as a business and
  shall include grounds or premises owned, leased or managed by the  state
  or any agency of the state government, and the owner or operator of such
  business  shall  be a "nursery grower"; provided, however, that the term
  "nursery grower" shall not include  persons  engaged  in  the  part-time
  production  of  plant  products  not  sold  in  the  regular channels of
  business.
6. The words "nursery dealer"  mean  any  person,  firm,  partnership,
  association  or  corporation  not  a  grower  or an original producer of
  nursery stock in this state which or who buys, or acquires, or  receives
  on consignment nursery stock for the purpose of reselling, transporting,
  or otherwise disposing of the same.
7.  The word "soil" means the commonly accepted medium or other medium
  in which plants are grown and which is or may be capable of harboring or
  transmitting insect pests and plant diseases.
8. The words "indoor plants" mean plants which are used for decorative
  purposes because of their flowering, fruiting or foliar  characteristics
  and  which  cannot be grown and maintained throughout all seasons in the
  outdoor environment of this state.
9. The words "noxious weeds" means any living stage (including but not
  limited to, seeds and reproductive parts)  of  any  parasitic  or  other
  plant  of  a kind, or subdivision of a kind, which is of foreign origin,
  is new to or not widely prevalent in this state,  and  can  directly  or
  indirectly  injure  crops, other useful plants, livestock, or poultry or
  other interests of agriculture, including irrigation.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 14 - Prevention and Control of Disease in Trees and Plants; Insect Pests; Sale of Fruit-Bearing Trees › 162 - Nursery Stock; Common Carriers.

§ 162. Nursery  stock;  common  carriers.    No nursery stock shall be
  received by a common carrier for  shipment  into  or  within  the  state
  unless  accompanied  by a copy of an unexpired certificate of inspection
  issued as provided in the subsequent sections of this article.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 14 - Prevention and Control of Disease in Trees and Plants; Insect Pests; Sale of Fruit-Bearing Trees › 163 - Prevention of Introduction of Injurious Insects, Noxious Weeds, and Plant Diseases.

§ 163. Prevention of introduction of injurious insects, noxious weeds,
  and  plant  diseases.   1. The commissioner shall take such action as he
  may deem necessary to  prevent  the  introduction  into  this  state  of
  injurious  insects,  noxious weeds, and plant diseases, provided that he
  shall consult with the commissioner of environmental conservation  prior
  to the commencement of any action to eradicate noxious weeds.
2.  All  nursery  stock shipped into this state shall bear or carry on
  the container thereof an unexpired certificate, or copy thereof, to  the
  effect  that (a) the contents of such container have been inspected by a
  duly authorized official and that the contents appear to  be  free  from
  all  injurious  insects or plant diseases, or (b) that the nursery stock
  of the grower of such contents had been examined by  a  duly  authorized
  official  and  had  been  found to be apparently free from all injurious
  insects or plant diseases. Such certificate shall be the certificate  of
  the  chief  horticultural  inspector,  by  whatever  name  known, of the
  country, province or state in  which  such  shipment  originated.  There
  shall  be shown in the certificate or by a separate tag attached thereto
  the name and address of the consignor or shipper, the name  and  address
  of the consignee or person to whom the nursery stock is shipped, and the
  general nature of the contents together with labels upon each variety of
  nursery  stock  declaring  the  name  thereof  and  a  statement  by the
  consignor or shipper that such nursery stock is in a live  and  vigorous
  condition.
3.  Any  person  within the state receiving nursery stock from without
  the state not accompanied by the certificate  described  in  subdivision
  two  of  this  section, shall immediately notify the commissioner of the
  receipt of such nursery stock and  shall  not  unpack  the  same  unless
  permitted by the commissioner so to do, and shall not allow such nursery
  stock  to  leave his possession until it has been inspected and released
  by the commissioner.
4. It shall be unlawful for any person to offer for sale  or  to  sell
  dead nursery stock.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 14 - Prevention and Control of Disease in Trees and Plants; Insect Pests; Sale of Fruit-Bearing Trees › 163-A - Application.

§ 163-a. Application.  Any  nursery  grower  or nursery dealer, except
  those nursery dealers selling, transporting, or  handling  for  sale  or
  otherwise  disposing  of nursery stock, exclusively consisting of indoor
  plants, at a retail level, desiring to sell, or selling, or handling for
  sale, or otherwise disposing of nursery stock in this state  shall  make
  application in writing to the commissioner upon a form prescribed by the
  commissioner.  The  application  shall  be  accompanied  by a fee of one
  hundred dollars for a registration effective for two years from the date
  of issuance. The commissioner may exempt from the payment of  such  fees
  agencies  or  authorities  of  the state; county, city, town, or village
  governments; or other entities providing benefit to the general  public,
  including but not limited to, botanical gardens.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 14 - Prevention and Control of Disease in Trees and Plants; Insect Pests; Sale of Fruit-Bearing Trees › 163-B - Registration to Sell.

§ 163-b. Registration  to  sell.   1. The commissioner after a nursery
  has been found to be apparently free from injurious  insects  and  plant
  diseases  shall  register  each  nursery  grower  desiring  to  sell, or
  selling, or handling for sale, or otherwise disposing of  nursery  stock
  in this state in accordance with the intent disclosed in the application
  and  shall  issue  a  certificate,  upon  a form to be prescribed by the
  commissioner, declaring that such nursery grower is duly registered  and
  authorized  to  do  business  in  this  state. If such nursery grower is
  maintaining or operating premises in connection with his or her business
  in more than one place within the state then he or she shall  obtain  an
  additional registration for each place of business, provided there shall
  be no additional fee for such additional registrations.
2.  The  commissioner  shall  register each nursery dealer desiring to
  sell or selling, or handling for sale, or otherwise disposing of nursery
  stock in this state in accordance with the intent disclosed  in  his  or
  her application and shall issue a certificate, upon a form prescribed by
  the  commissioner, declaring that such nursery dealer is duly registered
  and authorized to do business in this state. If such nursery  dealer  is
  maintaining or operating premises in connection with his or her business
  in  more  than  one  place  within  the  state, he or she shall obtain a
  separate registration, upon proper application, for each location.
3. Such certificates shall be conspicuously posted at  each  place  of
  business, maintained by such nursery grower or nursery dealer.
4.  Each  person  doing a mail order business in nursery stock from an
  address in this state is required to register as  a  nursery  grower  or
  nursery dealer whether or not the nursery stock sold or offered for sale
  is within the state.
5.  It  shall  be  unlawful  to affix a reproduction or facsimile of a
  nursery dealer's registration on plant materials  which  have  not  been
  inspected by the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 14 - Prevention and Control of Disease in Trees and Plants; Insect Pests; Sale of Fruit-Bearing Trees › 163-C - Revocation of Certificates.

§ 163-c. Revocation of certificates.  1. The commissioner shall at any
  time  have  the  power  to  withhold,  suspend  or revoke any license or
  certificate for sufficient cause, including the dissemination  of  false
  or  misleading  advertising,  or the engaging in fraudulent or deceptive
  business practices, all of which are hereby declared to be unlawful,  or
  any  violation  of  this  chapter  or  non-conformity  with any rules or
  regulation promulgated thereunder.   Before withholding,  suspending  or
  revoking any license or certificate, the commissioner shall give written
  notice  to  the  applicant for or holder of such license or certificate,
  stating that he contemplates the withholding, suspending or  revocation,
  of  same  and  giving  his reasons therefor. Said notice shall appoint a
  time of  hearing  before  said  commissioner  and  shall  be  mailed  by
  registered  mail  or  certified mail to the party holding the license or
  certificate. On the day of hearing,  the  respondent  may  present  such
  evidence  to the commissioner as he deems fit, and after hearing all the
  testimony, the commissioner shall decide the question in such manner  as
  to him appears just and proper. The respondent, if he feels aggrieved at
  the  decision  of the commissioner, may appeal to the commissioner for a
  review of said decision within ten days, and in case of his  failure  to
  request such review the decision shall become final unless within thirty
  days  after  its  issuance  the  respondent  shall  institute  a special
  proceeding for the review thereof, as provided in article  seventy-eight
  of the civil practice law and rules.
2.  The  word  "fraudulent"  as  used herein shall include any device,
  scheme or artifice to  defraud  and  any  deception,  misrepresentation,
  concealment, suppression, false premise, false promise or unconscionable
  contractual provision.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 14 - Prevention and Control of Disease in Trees and Plants; Insect Pests; Sale of Fruit-Bearing Trees › 164 - Control and Eradication of Injurious Insects, Noxious Weeds, and Plant Diseases.

§ 164. Control  and  eradication  of injurious insects, noxious weeds,
  and plant diseases.  1. The commissioner shall take such  action  as  he
  may  deem  necessary  to  control  or  eradicate  any injurious insects,
  noxious weeds, or plant diseases existing within the state.
2. All trees, shrubs, plants and vines or  other  material,  including
  soil  infected  or infested with injurious insects or plant diseases, or
  which have been exposed to injurious insects or plant diseases, or which
  are hosts of such insects or plant diseases or other material  including
  soil,  and noxious weeds are hereby declared public nuisances and may be
  destroyed or ordered destroyed by the commissioner.
3. The commissioner may order the owner or person  in  charge  of  any
  infected  or  infested trees, shrubs, plants and vines or other material
  including soil or host plants, and noxious weeds or the owner or  person
  in  charge of the farm or premises upon which they have been grown or on
  which they exist or in which they have been stored, or of  the  vehicles
  or  cars  in  which  they  have  been conveyed, to take such measures to
  eradicate or control the said infestation, infection, or  noxious  weeds
  as  the  commissioner  may  deem necessary or proper. Such orders may be
  communicated by personal service,  service  through  the  mails,  or  by
  newspaper  publication,  as the commissioner deems expedient. Such owner
  or  person  in  charge  shall  promptly  carry  out  the  order  of  the
  commissioner  within the period of time designated in the order. If such
  owner or person in charge shall refuse or neglect to carry out any  such
  order,  the  commissioner may apply such eradication or control measures
  at the expense of the owner. Upon the completion of such eradication  or
  control  measures  the  owner  shall,  upon  demand of the commissioner,
  forthwith pay the cost thereof into the state  treasury,  and  upon  his
  neglect  or refusal so to do, the amount thereof shall be recovered in a
  civil action to be brought and prosecuted by the attorney-general in the
  name of the people of the state.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 14 - Prevention and Control of Disease in Trees and Plants; Insect Pests; Sale of Fruit-Bearing Trees › 164-A - Shipment of Live Pests.

§ 164-a. Shipment of live pests.  No person, shall sell, barter, offer
  for sale, or move, transport, deliver, ship, or offer for shipment, into
  or  within  this  state  any  living  insects  in  any  state  of  their
  development,  or  noxious  weeds,  living  fungi,  bacteria,  nematodes,
  viruses   or  other  living  plant  parasitic  organisms  without  first
  obtaining a permit from the commissioner. Such permit  shall  be  issued
  only  after  the  commissioner  has determined that the insects, noxious
  weeds or living bacteria,  fungi,  nematodes,  viruses  or  other  plant
  parasitic  organisms  in  question  are not injurious to plants or plant
  products, if not already present in the state, or have not been found to
  be seriously injurious  to  warrant  their  being  refused  entrance  or
  movement,  if  known to be already established within the borders of the
  state; provided, that the commissioner may at his discretion exempt  the
  sale  and  transportation  of  specific  insects,  noxious weeds, fungi,
  bacteria, and other plant parasitic organisms  from  the  provisions  of
  this  section  if such sale and transportation is not considered harmful
  to the health and welfare of the people of the state, or for  scientific
  purposes under specified safeguards determined by the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 14 - Prevention and Control of Disease in Trees and Plants; Insect Pests; Sale of Fruit-Bearing Trees › 165 - Damages for Property Destroyed.

§ 165. Damages  for  property destroyed.   No damages shall be awarded
  for the destruction of infested or infected trees,  shrubs,  plants  and
  vines,  host  plants  or  other  material  under  the provisions of this
  article except as follows: any person  deeming  himself  aggrieved  may,
  within   six  months  after  the  destruction  occurs,  present  to  the
  commissioner a verified claim setting forth the grounds of his grievance
  and the amount of his damages, which claim shall be  determined  by  the
  commissioner  after  giving due consideration to any benefits which have
  accrued or may accrue to the claimant by reason of such destruction,  as
  an  offset  to  the  amount  of  the  claim.  The  determination  of the
  commissioner  may  be  reviewed  in  the  manner  provided  by   article
  seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 14 - Prevention and Control of Disease in Trees and Plants; Insect Pests; Sale of Fruit-Bearing Trees › 166 - Examination and Certification of Nurseries and Nursery Stock.

§ 166. Examination  and  certification of nurseries and nursery stock.
  1. The commissioner shall, as often as he or she deems necessary and  no
  less  than  once  every two years, inspect all nurseries or places where
  nursery stock is grown for sale. If upon examination it  is  found  that
  such  nursery  stock is apparently free from injurious insects and plant
  diseases, the commissioner shall issue to the owner of the nursery stock
  a certificate to the effect that the stock  so  examined  is  apparently
  free  from  all  injurious  insects and plant diseases. Such certificate
  shall be valid for the period of time designated by the commissioner  at
  the  time  of  issuance,  unless  sooner revoked by the commissioner for
  cause. If injurious insects or plant diseases  are  found  therein,  the
  owner  or  person in charge thereof shall promptly take such measures to
  eradicate  the  same  as  the  commissioner  shall  prescribe,  and   no
  certificate   of   freedom   from  disease  shall  be  given  until  the
  commissioner has satisfied himself or herself, by subsequent inspection,
  that all such injurious insects or diseases have been eradicated.
2. Owners of nurseries or places where nursery stock is grown for sale
  who do not hold unexpired and unrevoked certificates of  inspection  and
  freedom  from  disease,  as  defined in subdivision one of this section,
  shall not sell or otherwise dispose of such nursery stock.
3. Dealers in nursery stock who buy nursery stock from nursery growers
  to whom certificates of inspection and freedom from  disease  have  been
  issued as provided by subdivision one of this section, may be granted by
  the  commissioner  certificates of inspection and freedom from injurious
  insects and plant diseases in respect to the stock  so  purchased,  upon
  complying  with  the regulations adopted by the commissioner in relation
  thereto.
4. All nursery stock consigned for shipment from any point within this
  state or shipped by common carrier or other means from any point  within
  this  state, shall bear or carry on the container thereof a printed copy
  of the certificate  issued  as  provided  in  subdivision  one  of  this
  section.  No  nursery  stock  shall  be  sold  or  shipped  under such a
  certificate which has not been produced in the  nursery  in  respect  to
  which  such  certificate was issued, unless and until such nursery stock
  shall have been found by the commissioner, by examination or  otherwise,
  to be apparently free from injurious insects and plant diseases.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 14 - Prevention and Control of Disease in Trees and Plants; Insect Pests; Sale of Fruit-Bearing Trees › 168 - Sale of Fruit-Bearing Trees and Grapevines; Labels; Damages.

§ 168. Sale  of  fruit-bearing  trees and grapevines; labels; damages.
  The vendor shall attach to  every  bundle  of  fruit-bearing  trees  and
  grapevines  sold  or shipped within this state a tag or label specifying
  the name of the variety of trees or  vines  contained  therein.  If  the
  bundle  shall  contain trees or vines of different varieties, such label
  or tag shall be attached to each tree or vine or group  thereof  of  the
  same  variety.  The purchaser of any fruit-bearing tree or grapevine not
  true to name as specified on such tag or label, shall have a  remedy  at
  law in a civil action to recover the damages sustained.  Such action may
  be brought at any time prior to the third bearing year.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 14 - Prevention and Control of Disease in Trees and Plants; Insect Pests; Sale of Fruit-Bearing Trees › 169 - Delegation of Powers and Immunities in Regard to Dutch Elm Disease in Municipalities.

§ 169. Delegation  of  powers  and  immunities  in regard to dutch elm
  disease in municipalities.   The powers and  immunities  prescribed  and
  granted  in  sections one hundred sixty-four, one hundred sixty-five and
  one hundred sixty-seven of this article may, within the  limits  of  any
  municipality,  be  exercised and enjoyed by the appropriate officers and
  employees of such municipality with respect and in regard to  the  dutch
  elm  disease,  if  with  the  approval of the commissioner and under the
  direction of the commissioner or his representative  and  if  the  local
  legislative  body  of  any  such  municipality by local law or ordinance
  elects to exercise and enjoy such powers and immunities.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 14 - Prevention and Control of Disease in Trees and Plants; Insect Pests; Sale of Fruit-Bearing Trees › 169-A - Spraying Fruit Trees or Crops With Poison.

§ 169-a. Spraying  fruit  trees  or crops with poison.  Any person who
  sprays with or applies in any way poison or any poisonous  substance  to
  fruit  trees  or  any  alfalfa and clovers grown as field crops while in
  blossom, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a  fine  of  not  less
  than  ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense except as
  hereinafter provided.
The commissioner of agriculture and markets may, after public hearing,
  permit the use of specific materials for fruit blossom  thinning  sprays
  during  the  current  year.  The  provisions  of  this section shall not
  prevent the New York State College of Agriculture and  the  Agricultural
  Experiment   Station  at  Geneva  from  conducting  experiments  in  the
  application of poisons and spraying mixtures to  fruit  trees  while  in
  blossom.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 14 - Prevention and Control of Disease in Trees and Plants; Insect Pests; Sale of Fruit-Bearing Trees › 169-B - Fees.

§ 169-b. Fees.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law to the
  contrary, the commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to  deposit
  all  money  received  from  fees  collected  pursuant to this article in
  designated accounts within the miscellaneous special revenue fund.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 14-A - Sale and Distribution of Lye and Other Caustic Substances › 172 - Provisions Governing Sale and Distribution.

§ 172. Provisions  governing  sale and distribution.   No person shall
  hereafter sell, barter, or exchange, or receive, hold, pack, display, or
  offer for sale, barter, or exchange, any dangerous caustic or  corrosive
  substance  in  a  misbranded parcel, package, or container, said parcel,
  package, or container being designed for household use;  provided,  that
  household  products  for  cleaning and washing purposes, subject to this
  act and labeled in accordance therewith, may be sold, offered for  sale,
  held  for  sale  and  distributed  by  any  dealer, wholesale or retail;
  provided, further, that no person shall be  liable  to  prosecution  and
  conviction under this article when he establishes a guaranty bearing the
  signature  and  address  of  a vendor residing in the United States from
  whom he purchased the dangerous caustic or corrosive substance,  to  the
  effect  that such substance is not misbranded within the meaning of this
  article. No person shall give any  such  guaranty  when  such  dangerous
  caustic  or corrosive substance is in fact misbranded within the meaning
  of this article.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 14-A - Sale and Distribution of Lye and Other Caustic Substances › 172-A - Injunction Proceedings; When Authorized.

§ 172-a. Injunction  proceedings;  when  authorized.    Any  dangerous
  caustic or corrosive substance  in  a  misbranded  parcel,  package,  or
  container  suitable  for household use, that is being sold, bartered, or
  exchanged, or held, displayed, or offered for sale, barter, or exchange,
  shall be liable to be proceeded against by action for injunction in  the
  supreme  court  in  the judicial district within which the same is found
  and seized pursuant to judgment rendered therein and if  such  substance
  is  condemned  as  misbranded, by said court, it shall be disposed of by
  destruction or sale, as the court may direct; and if sold, the proceeds,
  less the actual costs and charges, shall be paid over to the state board
  of pharmacy to be by it turned over to the comptroller  at  the  end  of
  each  fiscal  year; but such substance shall not be sold contrary to the
  laws of the state; provided, however, that upon the payment of the costs
  of such proceedings and  the  execution  and  delivery  of  a  good  and
  sufficient bond to the effect that such substance will not be unlawfully
  sold  or  otherwise disposed of, the court may by order direct that such
  substance be delivered to the owner thereof.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 14-A - Sale and Distribution of Lye and Other Caustic Substances › 172-B - Enforcement of Article.

§ 172-b. Enforcement  of article.  The state department of agriculture
  and markets shall enforce the provisions of  this  article,  and  it  is
  hereby  authorized and empowered to approve and register such brands and
  labels intended for use under the provisions of this article as  may  be
  submitted  to  it for that purpose and as may in its judgment conform to
  the requirements  of  this  article;  provided,  however,  that  in  any
  prosecution under this article the fact that any brand or label involved
  in  said  prosecution has not been submitted to such board for approval,
  or if submitted, has not been approved by it, shall be immaterial.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 14-A - Sale and Distribution of Lye and Other Caustic Substances › 172-C - Penalties for Violations.

§ 172-c. Penalties   for   violations.     Any  person  violating  the
  provisions of this article shall be guilty of a  misdemeanor  and,  upon
  conviction  thereof,  be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred
  dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than ninety days,  or  by  both
  such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 14-A - Sale and Distribution of Lye and Other Caustic Substances › 172-D - Prosecutions for Penalties.

§ 172-d. Prosecutions   for  penalties.     The  state  department  of
  agriculture and markets and each district  attorney  to  whom  there  is
  presented,  or  who  in  any  way procures, satisfactory evidence of any
  violation of the provisions of  this  article  shall  cause  appropriate
  proceedings to be commenced and prosecuted in the proper courts, without
  delay,  for  the  enforcement  of  the penalties as in such cases herein
  provided.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 14-A - Sale and Distribution of Lye and Other Caustic Substances › 172-E - Construction of Article.

§ 172-e. Construction of article.  This article is not to be construed
  as applying to any substance, subject to this article, sold at wholesale
  or  retail  for use by a retail druggist in filling, or in dispensing in
  pursuance of, a prescription by a physician, dentist or veterinarian; or
  for  use  by  or  under  the  direction  of  a  physician,  dentist   or
  veterinarian; or for use by a chemist in the practice or teaching of his
  profession;  or for any industrial or professional use or for use in any
  of the arts and sciences.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 15 - Bee Diseases › 173 - Apiary Industry Advisory Committee.

§ 173. Apiary   industry   advisory  committee.  1.  There  is  hereby
  established within the department an apiary industry advisory  committee
  which  shall  consist of no more than fifteen members to be appointed by
  the commissioner based on their experience and expertise in  the  apiary
  industry.  Of  the  members  so  appointed,  at  least two members shall
  represent each of the three sectors of the apiary  industry,  commercial
  beekeepers,  part-time  beekeepers and hobbyist beekeepers; at least one
  member shall represent the horticulture or vegetable  industry  and  one
  member  shall  be  an  officer  or  employee  of the Cornell cooperative
  extension service or the New York state college of agriculture and  life
  sciences at Cornell university. Members shall be appointed for a term of
  three  years  and  may serve until their successors are chosen provided,
  however, that of the members first appointed, five  shall  serve  for  a
  term  of  one  year,  five shall serve for a term of two years, and five
  shall serve for a term of  three  years.  Members  shall  serve  without
  salary. The commissioner or his or her designee shall be the chairperson
  of the committee.
2.  The  duties  and  responsibilities of the apiary industry advisory
  committee shall include providing advice, comments  and  recommendations
  to  the  commissioner  regarding  state  government  plans, policies and
  programs affecting the apiary industry and such  other  matters  as  the
  commissioner may request in relation to this article.
3.  The advisory committee shall meet at least once annually, at times
  and places set by the commissioner.
4.  The  commissioner  may  ask  other  individuals  to   attend   the
  committee's meetings or work with it as needed.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 15 - Bee Diseases › 173-A - Definitions.

§ 173-a. Definitions. When used in this article:
1.  "Apiary"  shall  mean  any location used for raising honey bees or
  producing honey or other bee related products.
2. "Colony" shall mean any production unit of bees.
3. "Nucleus colony or nucs" shall mean a starter colony, consisting of
  a laying queen and up to five frames of brood and bees.
4. "Beekeeper" shall mean any  individual  or  entity  that  maintains
  managed  honey  bees  for profit, research, recreational, or educational
  purposes.
5. "Queen" shall mean the single reproductive female in  a  colony  of
  honey bees.
6.  "Brood  comb"  shall mean the beeswax structure of cells where the
  queen bee lays eggs in which immature bees are reared.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 15 - Bee Diseases › 173-B - Eradication of Bee Diseases and Certain Insects Affecting Bees.

§  173-b.  Eradication  of  bee diseases and certain insects affecting
  bees. The commissioner may cause inspections to be made of  apiaries  in
  the  state  for  the discovery of infectious, contagious or communicable
  diseases and for  the  discovery  of  insects  and  parasitic  organisms
  adversely affecting bees, and for the discovery of species or subspecies
  of  bees  which have been determined by him to cause injury, directly or
  indirectly, to this state's managed  bee  population,  crops,  or  other
  plants.  The  commissioner shall provide a beekeeper or such beekeeper's
  designated agent with reasonable advance notice of any inspection of  an
  apiary.  The commissioner may also cause investigations to be made as to
  the best method for the eradication of  diseases  of  bees,  insects  or
  parasitic  organisms adversely affecting bees, or for the eradication of
  species or  subspecies  of  bees  which  have  been  determined  by  the
  commissioner  to  cause  injury, directly or indirectly, to this state's
  managed bee population, crops, or other plants and the commissioner  may
  plan and execute appropriate methods for such eradication.
The  commissioner  shall  have  access  to  all  apiaries, structures,
  appliances, buildings, vehicles, airplanes, vessels  or  premises  where
  bees  or  honey  or  comb used in apiaries may be and may open any hive,
  colony, package or receptacle  of  any  kind  containing  or  which  the
  commissioner  has  reason  to  believe  contains  any  bees,  comb,  bee
  products, used beekeeping appliances, or anything else which is  capable
  of  transmitting  contagious  or infectious diseases of bees or which is
  capable of harboring insects or parasitic organisms adversely  affecting
  bees, or species or subspecies of bees which have been determined by the
  commissioner  to  cause  injury, directly or indirectly, to this state's
  managed bee population, crops, or other plants.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 15 - Bee Diseases › 175 - Rules and Regulations.

§ 175.   Rules and regulations. The commissioner is hereby authorized,
  after  public  hearing,  to  adopt,  promulgate and issue such rules and
  regulations as the commissioner may deem necessary to carry out and give
  full force and effect to the provisions of this article, including,  but
  not  limited  to,  the  designation  of  species  or  subspecies of bees
  determined by him or her to cause injury, directly or indirectly, to the
  public safety or to this state's managed bee population, crops, or other
  plants. Such rules and regulations shall be filed and  open  for  public
  inspection  at the principal office of the department and shall have the
  force and effect of law.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 15 - Bee Diseases › 175-A - Review by Court.

§  175-a. Review by court. The final determination of the commissioner
  on a hearing as authorized by subdivision six  of  section  one  hundred
  seventy-four  of  this article may be reviewed in the manner provided by
  article seventy-eight of the civil practice  law  and  rules,  provided,
  however,  that  a  stay  shall  not be granted by the court or a justice
  thereof pending final determination of the matter except  on  notice  to
  the  commissioner.  The  determination  of  the  commissioner  after the
  opportunity for a hearing and any hearing shall be final  unless  within
  thirty  days  from the receipt of written notice thereof a proceeding is
  instituted to review the same.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 15 - Bee Diseases › 175-B - Violations; Remedies.

§  175-b. Violations;  remedies.  The  commissioner may institute such
  action at law or in equity as may be  necessary  to  enforce  compliance
  with  any  provision  of  this  article  or  of  any  rule or regulation
  promulgated thereunder and in addition to any other remedy prescribed in
  article three of this chapter or  otherwise  may  apply  for  relief  by
  injunction  if  necessary  to  protect  the  public  interest or abate a
  nuisance as defined in this article without alleging or proving that  an
  adequate  remedy  at law does not exist. Such application may be made to
  the supreme court in any district or county as provided  civil  practice
  law  and rules and the rules of practice of the court, or to the supreme
  court in the third judicial district.
2023 New York Laws › AGM - Agriculture and Markets › Article 15-A - Sales of Baby Chicks › 175-M - Offering Baby Chicks for Sale.

§ 175-m. Offering  baby  chicks  for  sale. Before any baby chicks are
  offered for sale at public auction or community sale, except baby chicks
  that have been duly entered  and  exhibited  at  public  exhibitions,  a
  permit  shall  be  granted  to  offer  such  baby chicks for sale by the
  department of agriculture and markets as provided in this  article.  The
  term  "baby  chicks,"  as  used in this article, means any domestic fowl
  under the age of six weeks.