GENERAL BUSINESS LAW L. 1909, Ch. 25. "An Act relating to general business, constituting chapter twenty of the Consolidated Laws." (In effect February 17, 1909.) CHAPTER 20 OF THE CONSOLIDATED LAWS [Formerly L. 1896, Ch. 376 (Domestic Commerce Law), being chapter 34 of the General Laws.] Article 1. Short title (§ 1). 2. Weights and measures (§§ 2-17). 3. Auctions and auctioneers (§§ 20-24). 5. Pawnbrokers (§§ 40-52). 6. Junk dealers. (§§ 60-64). 7. Private detectives (§§ 70-75). 8. Public accountants (88 80-82). 10. Ticket agents (§§ 150-154). 11. Employment agencies (§§ 170-189). 12. Hotels and boarding houses (§§ 200-208). 14. Beef and pork (§§ 240-242). 15. Hops and hay (§§ 250-255). 16. Ice (§§ 260-263). 17. Milk cans (§§ 270-274). 18. Freight and baggage (§§ 280–287). 19. Oil and distilled spirits (§§ 300-310). 20. Gas ( 320-323). 21. Newspapers and periodicals (§§ 330-333). 22. Monopolies (§§ 340-346). 23. Conspiracies to control transportation (§§ 350, 351). 24. Trade marks (§§ 360-366). 25. Interest and usury (§§ 370–382). 26. Miscellaneous (§§ 390-398). 27. Laws repealed; when to take effect (§§ 400, 401). Explanation. For location and disposition of former sections of the Domestic Commerce Law-name changed to General Business Law - see L. 1896, Ch. 376, in "Consolidated Schedule of Repeals," Vol. 7. Section 2. Description of weights and measures, 3. The unit of length and surface. 4. Units of weight. 5. Units of capacity. 7. Measure for bran. 8. Number of pounds to the bushel. 9. Barrels of apples, quinces, pears and potatoes. 10. Construction of contracts. 11. Duties of state superintendent of weights and measures. 12. Copies of standard weights and measures. 13. County sealer; duty of supervisors. 14. Town sealer. 15. City sealer. 16. Weights and measures to be sealed; fees. The § 2. Description of weights and measures. standard weights and measures now in charge of the secretary of state, being the same that were furnished to this state by the government of the United States, in accordance with a joint resolution of congress, approved June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and consisting of one standard yard measure and one set of standard weights, comprising one Troy pound, and nine avoirdupois weights of one, two, three, four, five, ten, twenty, twenty-five and fifty pounds respectively; one set of standard Troy ounce weights, divided decimally from ten ounces to the one ten-thousandth of an ounce; one set of standard liquid capacity measures, consisting of one wine gallon of two hundred and thirty-one cubic inches, one half gallon, one quart, one pint and one-half pint |