§ 70. Description of the arms of the state and the state flag. The device of arms of this state is hereby declared to be correctly described as follows: Charge. Azure, in a landscape, the sun in fess, rising in splendor or, behind a range of three mountains, the middle one the highest; in base […]
§ 71. Painted devices of arms in certain public places. The device of arms of the state, corresponding to the blazon hereinbefore given, shall be painted in colors upon wood or canvass, and hung upon the walls of the executive chamber, the court of appeals, the office of the secretary of state, and the senate […]
§ 72. Prohibition of other pictorial devices. No pictorial devices other than the arms of the state shall be used in the public offices at the capitol for letter headings and envelopes used for official business. Persons printing and circulating public documents under the authority of the state, when they use a vignette, shall place […]
§ 73. Great seal of the state. The secretary of state shall cause to be engraved upon metal two and one-half inches in diameter the device of arms of this state, accurately conformed to the description thereof given in this article, surrounded with the legend, “The great seal of the state of New York.” It […]
§ 74. Use of the great seal. All such matters as have issued under the great seal of the state since March sixteenth, seventeen hundred seventy-eight, shall continue to be issued under such seal, except copies of papers and records certified by the secretary of state or his deputy and authenticated under his seal of […]
§ 75. State flower. The rose shall be the official flower of the state in any color or combination of colors common to it.
§ 76. State tree. The sugar maple (Acer Saccharum M.) shall be the official tree of the state.
§ 77. State gem. The garnet shall be the official gem of the state of New York.
§ 78. State bird. The bluebird (Sialia Sialis) shall be the official bird of the state of New York.
§ 79. State animal. The American beaver (Castor canadensis) shall be the official animal of the state of New York.
§ 80. State fresh-water fish. The brook or speckled trout (Salvelinus Fontinalis) shall be the official fresh-water fish of the state of New York.
§ 80-a. State marine or salt water fish. The striped bass (Morone Saxatilis) shall be the official marine or salt water fish of the state of New York.
§ 81. State fruit. The apple (genus malus) shall be the official fruit of the state of New York.
§ 82. State beverage. Milk shall be the official beverage of the state of New York.
§ 83. State fossil. The Eurypterus remipes shall be the official fossil of the state of New York.
§ 84. State muffin. The apple muffin shall be the official muffin of the state of New York.
§ 85. State shell. The bay scallops (argopecten irradians) shall be the official shell of the state of New York.
§ 86. State insect. The lady bug (coccinella novemnotata) shall be the official insect of the state of New York.
* § 87. State reptile. The common snapping turtle (chelydra serpentina) shall be the official reptile of the state of New York. * NB There are 2 § 87’s
* § 87. State bush. The lilac bush (Syringa vulgaris) shall be the official bush of the state. * NB There are 2 § 87’s
