STATE OF NEW YORK
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4690
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the
manufacturing, sale, branding and labeling of beech sugar and beech
syrup
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The section heading of section 203 of the agriculture and
2 markets law, as amended by chapter 252 of the laws of 2015, is amended
3 and a new subdivision (d) is added to read as follows:
4 Manufacture and sale of imitation maple, birch [or], walnut or beech
5 sugar and syrup prohibited.
6 (d) 1. No person shall manufacture for sale, keep for sale, or offer
7 or expose for sale, any sugar in imitation or semblance of beech sugar
8 which is not pure beech sugar, nor any syrup in imitation or semblance
9 of beech syrup, which is not pure beech syrup, nor shall any person
10 manufacture, offer or expose for sale any sugar as and for beech sugar
11 which is not pure beech sugar, nor any syrup as and for beech syrup
12 which is not pure beech syrup.
13 2. For the purpose of this article the term "beech sugar" shall be
14 deemed to mean sugar made from pure beech sap or pure beech syrup, and
15 the term "beech syrup" shall be deemed to mean syrup made from pure
16 beech sap.
17 § 2. Section 204 of the agriculture and markets law, as amended by
18 chapter 252 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
19 § 204. Branding and labeling of maple, birch [or], walnut or beech
20 sugar and syrup mixtures. No person shall manufacture, sell or expose
21 for sale, any compound or mixture as and for sugar which shall be made
22 up of maple, birch [or], walnut or beech sugar mixed with any other
23 sugar or any other substance without branding or labeling the said sugar
24 with a statement giving the ingredients of which it is made up. No
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 person shall manufacture, sell, expose for sale or offer for sale any
2 compound or mixture as syrup which shall be made up of maple, birch
3 [or], walnut or beech syrup mixed with any other syrup or ingredient
4 without branding or labeling said syrup with a statement giving the
5 ingredients of which it is made up. This shall not be construed to apply
6 to a syrup or syrups manufactured and sold for medicinal purposes only.
7 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
