It is the purpose of this article to protect blind persons and organizations established to aid blind persons in the sale of blind-made products and to prevent misrepresentation in connection with the sale of blind-made products. Source: L. 79: Entire article added, p. 1100, § 1, effective October 1.
As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires: “Blind-made products” means those goods, wares, and merchandise for which blind persons perform at least seventy-five percent of the total hours of direct labor of manufacture. “Blind person” means a person having not more than 20/200 central visual acuity in the better eye with correcting […]
Any persons engaged in the manufacture or distribution of blind-made products may apply to the state department on forms provided by the department for a registration and an authorization to use an official imprint, stamp, symbol, or label, designed or approved by the state department, to identify goods and articles as blind-made products. The state […]
No goods or articles made in this or any other state shall be displayed, advertised, offered for sale, or sold in this state upon a representation that the same are blind-made products unless identified as such by the official imprint, stamp, symbol, or label designed or approved by the state department. Source: L. 79: Entire […]
It is unlawful for any person to use or employ, willfully or knowingly, the official imprint, stamp, symbol, or label designed or approved by the state department, unless such use is authorized by the state department, as provided for in section 26-8.3-103. Each such use is a separate offense. It is unlawful for any person […]