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§  857.  Disclosure  required.  (1)  No merchant shall sell, exchange,
consign, donate, or otherwise transfer a Torah scroll unless  a  written
disclosure instrument is furnished to the purchaser, consignee, donee or
other  transferee  prior to the sale, exchange, consignment, donation or
other transfer, which sets forth  as  to  each  scroll  the  descriptive
information  required  by  section  eight  hundred  fifty-nine  of  this
article.

(2) A merchant shall inquire of any person offering a Torah scroll for sale information sufficient to supply the information described in subdivisions one through four, inclusive, of section eight hundred fifty-nine of this article and shall not purchase, or otherwise accept for purposes of sale, exchange, consignment, donation, or other transfer, a scroll from a person failing to provide such information.