2014 New York Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 39-A - (855 - 864) MERCHANTS OF TORAH SCROLLS
857 - Disclosure required.

  857.  Disclosure  required.  (1)  No merchant shall sell, exchange,
  consign, donate, or otherwise transfer a Torah scroll unless  a  written
  disclosure instrument is furnished to the purchaser, consignee, donee or
  other  transferee  prior to the sale, exchange, consignment, donation or
  other transfer, which sets forth  as  to  each  scroll  the  descriptive
  information  required  by  section  eight  hundred  fifty-nine  of  this
  article.
(2) A merchant shall inquire of any person offering a Torah scroll for
  sale information sufficient  to  supply  the  information  described  in
  subdivisions  one  through  four,  inclusive,  of  section eight hundred
  fifty-nine of this article and shall not purchase, or  otherwise  accept
  for   purposes  of  sale,  exchange,  consignment,  donation,  or  other
  transfer, a scroll from a person failing to provide such information.