New York Laws
Article 5-A - New York State Tourist Promotion Act
165 - Payment of Funds to Tourist Promotion Agencies.

(b) No advertising or promotion funded for the purposes of this act
shall contain reference to or the name of any public official of the
state of New York, or its political subdivisions. Reference shall
include but not be limited to photographs, drawings, caricatures,
quotations, invitations, signatures, endorsements or sound recordings.
(c) Any logotype, special printing characters, slogan or like device
developed by any advertising agency hired by the department and used in
advertising and promotion with funds appropriated for the purposes of
this act shall become the property of the state of New York and shall be
provided without fee to any tourist promotion agency for use in
advertising purchased with funds appropriated for the purposes of this
act. This section shall not be construed as license for tourist
promotion agencies to use in toto advertising developed by the agency or
agencies under contract to the department. It shall be the
responsibility of the commissioner to determine those constructs which
must be present to maintain necessary continuity in central conceptual
themes in advertising purchased with funds provided for the purposes of
this act.

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