[§482D-6]  Quality marks; identifying
trademarks.  (a)  No article of merchandise bearing a quality or fineness
mark made in whole or in part of gold or silver or of an alloy of either metal
shall be sold, offered for sale, imported into, or exported from the State
unless it is stamped with a trademark that has been registered under the laws
of the United States or applied for registration within thirty days of being
imported or offered for sale in the State.



(b)  Every article of merchandise which is composed
of two or more parts which are complete in themselves but which are not
identical in quality, and any one of the parts bears a quality mark or stamp,
each other part of that article of merchandise shall bear a quality mark or
stamp of like pattern and size disclosing the quality of that other part.



(c)  Each identifying trademark applied to any
article of merchandise in compliance with this section shall be applied in a
position as close as possible to the quality mark or stamp and shall be as
clear and legible as the quality mark. [L 1990, c 343, pt of §2]