2310 - Venereal disease; certain advertisements. - New York Statutes

§ 2310. Venereal disease; certain advertisements. Whoever publishes, delivers or distributes or causes to be published, delivered or distributed in any manner whatsoever an advertisement concerning a venereal disease, lost manhood, lost vitality, impotency, sexual weakness, seminal emissions, varicocele, self-abuse or excessive sexual indulgence whether described by such names, words, terms or phrases, or by any other names, words, terms or phrases, calculated or intended to convey to the reader the idea that any of said diseases, infirmities, disabilities, conditions, or habits are meant or referred to, and calling attention to a medicine, article or preparation that may be used therefor or to a person or persons from whom or an office or place at which information, treatment or advice relating to such disease, infirmity, habit or condition may be obtained, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. This section, however, shall not apply to didactic or scientific treatises which do not advertise or call attention to any person or persons from whom or any office or place at which information, treatment or advice may be obtained, nor shall it apply to advertisements or notices issued by an incorporated hospital, or by a licensed dispensary, duly certified by the local board of health as a venereal disease clinic, or by a municipal board or department of health or by the department of health of the state of New York.