Paul, Section 176 is sufficiently pro-metric that I doubt than any prosecutor in New York State would be willing to challenge labels which are metric-only! Thanks for the quotation. Yes. Why does the N.Y. State Dept. of Agriculture delay?
Gene. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:55:48 -0600 >From: Paul Trusten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [USMA:40707] current New York state law supports metrication >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> >... > ยง 176. Declaration of policy and purpose. The legislature hereby finds > and declares that voluntary and orderly conversion to the metric system > of weights and measures is of vital importance to the economy of the > state. It is hereby declared to be the public policy of this state to > encourage the gradual implementation of the metric system throughout the > state's government, industry, commerce, business, education and > agriculture. This article is enacted in the exercise of the public power > in order to encourage such implementation and to provide a revised code > of weights and measures which will be responsive to the present and > future needs of commerce, industry and consumers. The legislature finds > and declares that the coordination and administration of this unitary > regulatory system governing weights and measures throughout the state > should be, and is hereby, vested in the commissioner of agriculture and > markets and that enforcement of this article by the counties and cities > of the state shall be under his supervision. >...
