N.Y. General Business Law 852 – Power of municipality to revoke license or permit
§ 852. Power of municipality to revoke license or permit. 1. A county, town, city or village which issues a license or permit authorizing any person, firm or corporation to engage in the selling or offering for sale of any merchandise may revoke such license or permit upon a finding, pursuant to a hearing held thereon, that such person, firm or corporation has sold or offered for sale merchandise in violation of this article.
Terms Used In N.Y. General Business Law 852
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Drug-related paraphernalia: consists of the following objects used for the following purposes:
(i) Kits, used or designed for the purpose of planting, propagating, cultivating, growing or harvesting of any species of plant which is a controlled substance or from which a controlled substance can be derived;
(ii) Kits, used or designed for the purpose of manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, or preparing controlled substances;
(iii) Isomerization devices, used or designed for the purpose of increasing the potency of any species of plant which is a controlled substance;
(iv) Scales and balances, used or designed for the purpose of weighing or measuring controlled substances;
(v) Diluents and adulterants, including but not limited to quinine hydrochloride, mannitol, mannite, dextrose and lactose, used or designed for the purpose of cutting controlled substances;
(vi) and
(vii) Objects, used or designed for the purpose of ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing cocaine into the human body. See N.Y. General Business Law 850
2. The possession with intent to sell or offering for sale of drug-related paraphernalia as defined herein is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and where any such drug-related paraphernalia shall be taken from the possession of any person, the same shall be surrendered and forfeited to the sheriff of the county wherein the same shall be taken, except that in a city having a population of seventy-five thousand or more, the same shall be surrendered and forfeited to the police commissioner or other head of the police force or department of said city and except that in the counties of Nassau and Suffolk, the same shall be surrendered and forfeited to the commissioner of the county police department.