2016 New York Laws
AGM - Agriculture & Markets
Article 13 - (Agriculture & Markets)
158 - Apples; adoption of grades; branding.

 158. Apples;  adoption  of  grades;  branding.  The  commissioner is
  hereby authorized and empowered, after investigation and public hearing,
  to fix and promulgate official standards  for  grading  and  classifying
  apples  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  the  factors  of  maturity,  soundness,  color  and  shape. 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 apples 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."
Each  closed  package  of  apples,  when  sold,  exposed  for  sale or
  transported for sale, shall be  plainly  and  conspicuously  branded  to
  show:
(1) Variety.
(2) Grade.
(3) Minimum diameter or numerical count.
(4) Quantity of contents.
(5) Name and address of packer or repacker.
If  the  true  name  of  the  variety  is  not  known to the packer or
  repacker, the statement shall include the  words  "variety  unknown"  in
  place of the name of the variety.
In case the branding upon any closed package of apples 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.