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Home » US Law » 2022 New York Laws » Consolidated Laws » GBS - General Business » Article 28 - Practice of Barbering » 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.