2020 New York Laws
AGM - Agriculture and Markets
Article 13
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.

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