New York Consolidated Laws, Agriculture and Markets Law - AGM § 500-b. Licensure

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.