New York Consolidated Laws, General Business Law - GBS § 590. Duration of sale; license fee

(a) A license to conduct a sale issued pursuant to this article shall be good for no more than a period of thirty consecutive calendar days and may be renewed for one consecutive period not exceeding thirty consecutive calendar days upon the affidavit of the applicant that the goods, wares and merchandise listed in the inventory have not been disposed of and that no new goods, wares and merchandise have been or will be added to the inventory previously filed pursuant to this article by purchase, acquisition, on consignment or otherwise. The application for renewal shall be made not more than ten days prior to the date of the expiration of the license and shall contain an inventory of the goods, wares and merchandise remaining on hand at the time the application for renewal is made, which inventory shall be prepared and furnished in the same manner and form as the original inventory. The licensing authority of the appropriate city, town or village in which such sale is to be conducted shall receive from the applicant for such license, upon the filing of an application therefor, a fee of five hundred dollars, and upon the renewal thereof, a fee of fifty dollars. The applicant shall not be entitled to a refund of the fee paid if said application is revoked.

(b) Any person desiring to conduct any sale defined in subdivision (a) of section five hundred eighty-one of this article shall place the fees prescribed in subdivision (a) of this section with the licensing authority, all except seventy-five dollars of which shall be returned to such person provided the store is closed within sixty days of the receipt of such a license. In the event that the person going out of business and which is holding the closing out sale does not close his doors within sixty days of the receipt of such a license, the applicant shall not be entitled to a refund of such fees.