(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
Florence E. S. Knapp, Secretary of State, made public the text of the amendment to the New York State penal law with regard to the sale of kosher meat in restaurants, which became a law on April 9, 1926 and was approved by the Governor.
The amendment reads as follows:
“A person who with intent to defraud, sells or exposes for sale in any restaurant or other place where food products are sold for consumption on the premises, any article of food or food preparations and falsely represents the same to be kosher or as having been prepared in accordance with the Orthodox Hebrew religious requirements; or sells or exposes for sale in such restaurant or such other place both kosher and non-kosher food or food preparations for consumption on the premises not prepared in accordance with the ritual or not sanctioned by the Hebrew Orthodox religious requirements and who fails to display on his window signs and all display advertising in block letters at least four inches in height “kosher and non-kosher food served here” shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
“This act shall take effect immediately.”
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