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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5155--A
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 12, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. MAGEE, BARRETT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          DUPREY -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Agriculture  --
          reported   and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets  law,  in  relation  to  the
          manufacturing  and  sale  of imitation birch and walnut syrups and the
          branding and labeling of such syrups
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section 203 of the agriculture and markets law is amended
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 203. Manufacture and sale of imitation maple, birch or walnut  sugar
     4  and  syrup prohibited. (a) 1. No person shall manufacture for sale, keep
     5  for sale, or offer or  expose  for  sale,  any  sugar  in  imitation  or
     6  semblance of maple sugar which is not pure maple sugar, nor any syrup in
     7  imitation  or  semblance  of maple syrup, which is not pure maple syrup,
     8  nor shall any person manufacture, offer or expose for sale any sugar  as
     9  and  for maple sugar which is not pure maple sugar, nor any syrup as and
    10  for maple syrup which is not pure maple syrup.
    11    2. For the purpose of this article the term  "maple  sugar"  shall  be
    12  deemed  to  mean sugar made from pure maple sap or pure maple syrup, and
    13  the term "maple syrup" shall be deemed to  mean  syrup  made  from  pure
    14  maple sap.
    15    (b)  1.  No person shall manufacture for sale, keep for sale, or offer
    16  or expose for sale, any sugar in imitation or semblance of  birch  sugar
    17  which  is  not pure birch sugar, nor any syrup in imitation or semblance
    18  of birch syrup, which is not birch syrup, nor shall any person  manufac-
    19  ture, offer or expose for sale any sugar as and for birch sugar which is
    20  not  pure birch sugar, nor any syrup as and for birch syrup which is not
    21  pure birch syrup.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07769-03-5
        A. 5155--A                          2
 
     1    2. For the purpose of this article the term  "birch  sugar"  shall  be
     2  deemed  to  mean sugar made from pure birch sap or pure birch syrup, and
     3  the term "birch syrup" shall be deemed to  mean  syrup  made  from  pure
     4  birch sap.
     5    (c)  1.  No person shall manufacture for sale, keep for sale, or offer
     6  or expose for sale, any sugar in imitation or semblance of walnut  sugar
     7  which  is not pure walnut sugar, nor any syrup in imitation or semblance
     8  of walnut syrup, which is not pure walnut syrup, nor  shall  any  person
     9  manufacture,  offer or expose for sale any sugar as and for walnut sugar
    10  which is not pure walnut sugar, nor any syrup as and  for  walnut  syrup
    11  which is not walnut syrup.
    12    2.  For  the  purpose of this article the term "walnut sugar" shall be
    13  deemed to mean sugar made from pure walnut sap or pure walnut syrup, and
    14  the term "walnut syrup" shall be deemed to mean  syrup  made  from  pure
    15  walnut sap.
    16    § 2. Section 204 of the agriculture and markets law is amended to read
    17  as follows:
    18    § 204. Branding and labeling of maple, birch or walnut sugar and syrup
    19  mixtures.  No  person  shall  manufacture,  sell or expose for sale, any
    20  compound or mixture as and for sugar which shall be made  up  of  maple,
    21  birch  or walnut sugar mixed with any other sugar or any other substance
    22  without branding or labeling the said sugar with a statement giving  the
    23  ingredients  of  which it is made up. No person shall manufacture, sell,
    24  expose for sale or offer for sale any compound or mixture as syrup which
    25  shall be made up of maple, birch or walnut syrup mixed  with  any  other
    26  syrup  or  ingredient  without  branding  or  labeling said syrup with a
    27  statement giving the ingredients of which it is made up. This shall  not
    28  be  construed  to  apply  to a syrup or syrups manufactured and sold for
    29  medicinal purposes only.
    30    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    31  have become a law.