Section 27-1011. Beverage container requirements

1.  a. Every beverage container sold or offered for sale in this state
  by a distributor or dealer shall clearly indicate by permanently marking
  or embossing the container or by printing as part of the  product  label
  the  refund  value  of  the  container  and  the words "New York" or the
  letters "NY"; provided, however, in the case of private label  beverages
  such information may be embossed or printed on a label which is securely
  or   permanently  affixed  to  the  beverage  container.  Private  label
  beverages shall be  defined  as  beverages  purchased  from  a  beverage
  manufacturer  in  beverage  containers bearing a brand name or trademark
  for sale at retail directly by the owner or licensee of such brand  name
  or  trademark;  or  through retail dealers affiliated with such owner or
  licensee by a cooperative or franchise agreement.
    b. Such embossing or permanent imprinting on  the  beverage  container
  shall  be  the  responsibility  of the person, firm or corporation which
  bottles, cans or otherwise fills or packages a beverage container  or  a
  brand  owner  for  whose  exclusive  account private label beverages are
  bottled, canned or otherwise packaged; provided, however, that the  duly
  authorized  agent  of  any such person, firm or corporation may indicate
  such refund value by a label securely affixed on any beverage  container
  containing beverages imported into the United States.
    2. No deposit initiator, distributor or dealer shall sell or offer for
  sale, at wholesale or retail in this state, any metal beverage container
  designed  and  constructed  with  a  part  of  the  container  which  is
  detachable in opening the container unless  such  detachable  part  will
  decompose by photodegradation or biodegradation.
    3. No deposit initiator, distributor or dealer shall sell or offer for
  sale  in  this  state  beverage  containers connected to each other by a
  separate holding device constructed of plastic which does not  decompose
  by photodegradation or biodegradation.