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N.Y. GBS Law § 69

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Sale of incarcerated individual made goods

Official statutory text

§ 69. Sale of incarcerated individual made goods. No goods, wares, or\nmerchandise, manufactured, produced or mined wholly or in part by\nincarcerated individuals, except incarcerated individuals or persons on\nparole, probation, or release, shall be sold in this state to any\nperson, firm, association or corporation except that nothing in this\nsection shall be construed to forbid the sale of such goods produced in\nthe correctional facilities of this state to the state, the government\nof the United States or to any state of the United States, or any\npolitical subdivision thereof, or for any public institution owned or\nmanaged and controlled by the state, or any political subdivision\nthereof, as provided in section one hundred eighty-four of the\ncorrection law, or any public corporation or eleemosynary association or\ncorporation funded in whole or in part by any federal, state or local\nfunds, or to forbid the sale, subject to the rules and regulations of\nthe head of the department or other like governmental authority having\njurisdiction, of any product resulting from occupational therapy within\nany penal or correctional institution, as provided in section one\nhundred ninety-seven of the correction law.\n Nothing in this section shall be construed to forbid the sale of parts\nand components produced by incarcerated individual labor in correctional\nindustry programs of the government of the United States or any state of\nthe United States, or any political subdivision thereof, to the\ndepartment of corrections and community supervision's division of\ncorrectional industries for use in its manufacturing operations.\n A violation of the provisions of this section shall constitute a\nmisdemeanor.\n

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