New York Consolidated Laws, Labor Law - LAB § 357. Unlawfully manufactured articles

The commissioner shall conspicuously affix to each or all articles unlawfully manufactured in a house a tag not less than four inches in length bearing in small pica capital letters the words “unlawfully made,” or shall seize and hold such article until claimed by the owner thereof.  Unless the person entitled to the possession of an article so seized shall claim it within thirty days thereafter the said article may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of.  No person except the commissioner shall interfere with, remove or deface such tag.