Section 97. Penalty for failure to issue bill of lading  


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  • Any person who,
      being the owner, master or agent of any vessel transporting  merchandise
      or  property  between  ports  of this state, departs with such vessel or
      causes such vessel to depart from the port  where  such  merchandise  or
      property  is  taken on board, without giving or tendering to the shipper
      of such merchandise or property, if a bill of lading be demanded by such
      shipper, a bill of lading or shipping document as  provided  by  section
      three hundred ninety-eight of this chapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor.