N.Y. General Business Law § 441: Suspension and revocation of licenses and certificates

§ 441. Suspension and revocation of licenses and certificates. (a) A

license to engage in the practice of barbering or to conduct a barber

shop or a certificate of an apprentice may be suspended or revoked or in

lieu thereof a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars payable to the

department of state or a reprimand may be imposed by the secretary of

state, for any one or more of the following causes:

1. Refusal to submit to physical examination when ordered by the

secretary of state, pursuant to subdivision three of section four

hundred thirty-three.

2. Practice by a person having an infectious or communicable disease.

3. Habitual drunkenness or unlawful use of a habit-forming drug.

4. Fraud or bribery in securing a certificate by an apprentice or in

securing a license or permission to take an examination therefor.

5. The making of any false statement as to a material matter in any

application or other statement or certificate required by or pursuant to

this article.

6. Incompetency.

7. Failure to display the license or certificate as provided in this

article.

8. Violation of any provision of this article, or of any rule or

regulation adopted hereunder, or of any applicable sanitary code.

9. Conviction of any crime or offense involving moral turpitude.

10. Conviction under subdivision one of section sixty-five of the

alcoholic beverage control law where such conviction was for the sale of

alcohol to a person actually under the age of twenty-one and the offense

occurred at the barber's place of business.

(b) Whenever the license to practice barbering or the license to

conduct a barber shop or the certificate of an apprentice is revoked,

such license or certificate shall not be reinstated or reissued until

after the expiration of a period of one year from the date of such

revocation.