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.

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.