New York Laws
Article 5-C - Licensing of Rendering Plants
96-Z-3 - Granting, Suspending or Revoking Licenses.

§ 96-z-3. Granting, suspending or revoking licenses. The commissioner
may decline to grant a license or may suspend or revoke a license
already granted, after written notice to the applicant or licensee and
an opportunity to be heard, when (1) any statement in the application or
upon which it was issued is or was false or misleading, (2) the
applicant or licensee does not have adequate physical facilities for the
operation of a disposal plant or transportation service, (3) facilities
are not maintained in a manner and as required by rules and regulations
duly promulgated by the commissioner, (4) applicant, an officer,
director, partner, or holder of ten per centum or more of the voting
stock of an applicant has been convicted of a felony by a court of the
United States or any state or territory thereof, without subsequent
pardon by the governor or other appropriate authority of the state or
jurisdiction in which such conviction occurred, or the receipt of a
certificate of relief from disabilities or a certificate of good conduct
pursuant to article twenty-three of the correction law, (5) when
applicant or licensee is a partnership or corporation, any partner,
officer, director, holder or owner of ten percent or more of the stock,
has previously been responsible, in whole or in part, for any act on
account of which a license may be denied, suspended or revoked pursuant
to the provisions of this article, or (6) the applicant or licensee has
failed to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter or rules or
regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.