N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 500-b: Licensure

§ 500-b. Licensure. No person shall maintain or operate a retail food

store, food service establishment or food warehouse unless such

establishment is licensed pursuant to the provisions of this article,

provided, however, that establishments registered, permitted or licensed

by the department pursuant to other provisions of this chapter, under

permit and inspection by the state department of health or by a local

health agency which maintains a program certified and approved by the

state commissioner of health, or subject to inspection by the United

States department of agriculture pursuant to the federal meat, poultry

or egg inspection programs, shall be exempt from licensure under this

article.

1. Application for licensure of a retail food store, food service

establishment or food warehouse shall be made, upon a form prescribed by

the commissioner, on or before December first of every other year for

the registration period beginning January first following.

2. Upon submission of a completed application, together with the

applicable licensing fee, the commissioner may issue a license to the

retail food store, food service establishment or food warehouse

described in the application for two years from the date of issuance

pursuant to the provisions of this article.

3. The license fee shall be two hundred fifty dollars provided,

however, that food warehouses shall pay a license fee of four hundred

dollars.

4. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the commissioner shall,

upon submission of a completed application for a new license by an

applicant that is a chain store, as defined by subdivision five of

section two hundred fifty-one-z-two of this chapter, issue such license

for a period ending on the same date as the licenses of the other chain

stores that are a part of the same network.