[§482D-2]  Importation or manufacture of
falsely marked gold or silver articles prohibited.  It shall be unlawful
for any person being a manufacturer or dealer of or in wholesale or retail in
gold or silver articles to manufacture, sell, import, or export gold or silver
jewelry or gold or silver articles, manufactured after October 1, 1981, and
made in whole or in part of gold or silver, or any alloy of either of these
metals, and having stamped any mark or word indicating or designed or intended
to indicate that the gold or silver or alloy in the article is of a greater
degree of fineness than the actual fineness of quality of the gold, silver, or
alloy, according to the standards established in this chapter. [L 1990, c 343,
pt of §2]