2014 New York Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 13 - (229-A - 229-J) SILVER, GOLD AND DIAMONDS
229-A - Marking certain articles, silver, sterling silver or solid silver.

  229-a.  Marking  certain articles, silver, sterling silver or solid
  silver. Any person, firm, corporation or association who makes or  sells
  or  offers  to sell or dispose of, or has in his or its possession, with
  intent to sell or dispose of, any article of merchandise marked, stamped
  or branded with the words "sterling" or "sterling silver," or incased or
  inclosed in any box, package, cover or wrapper, or other thing in, by or
  with which the said article is packed, inclosed  or  otherwise  prepared
  for  sale  or  disposition,  having  thereupon  any engraving or printed
  label, stamp, imprint, mark or trade-mark,  indicating  or  denoting  by
  such  marking,  stamping,  branding,  or engraving or printing that such
  article is silver, sterling silver or solid silver, unless nine  hundred
  and  twenty-five  one-thousandths of the component parts of the metal of
  which the said article is manufactured is pure silver, is  guilty  of  a
  misdemeanor.