N.Y. General Business Law § 438: Barber shop owners' license; requirements

§ 438. Barber shop owners' license; requirements. 1. On and after

October first, nineteen hundred forty-seven no person shall own or

operate a barber shop unless a barber shop owners' license is first

obtained from the secretary of state for each barber shop owned or

operated.

2. The establishment of itinerant shops is hereby prohibited and the

maintenance of a bona fide establishment with a permanent and definite

location shall be a prerequisite for the issuance of a barber shop

owner's license.

2-a. The holder of a certificate of registration as an apprentice

shall not be entitled to a barber shop owner's license.

3. An applicant for a barber shop owner's license must establish that

he or she is the real owner and possesses title to or is entitled to the

possession of the shop. He or she must furnish satisfactory evidence of

proper location of the shop, proper layout and adequate equipment for

the shop, sanitary conditions in the shop and its surroundings. Such

applicant must also furnish satisfactory evidence of good moral

character, except that in determining an applicant's good moral

character, the secretary of state shall not automatically disqualify an

applicant on the basis of a criminal conviction. The secretary shall

review such criminal history information in accordance with article

twenty-three-A of the correction law.

4. A license issued under this section must at all times during the

term thereof be displayed in the barber shop for which issued.

5. Notice in writing shall be given the secretary of state at his

office in Albany by the holder of a barber shop owner's license of any

change in address of the barber shop together with the return of

license, whereupon a properly signed endorsement will be made on the

face of the license as to such change and the license then returned to

the licensee. A change of address by a licensee without such notice and

endorsement of license shall operate to cancel the license.