N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law Section 500-B
Licensure

No person shall maintain or operate a retail food store, food service establishment or food warehouse unless such establishment is licensed pursuant to the provisions of this article, provided, however, that establishments registered, permitted or licensed by the department pursuant to other provisions of this chapter, under permit and inspection by the state department of health or by a local health agency which maintains a program certified and approved by the state commissioner of health, or subject to inspection by the United States department of agriculture pursuant to the federal meat, poultry or egg inspection programs, shall be exempt from licensure under this article.

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.

Source: Section 500-B — Licensure, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/AGM/500-B (updated Feb. 20, 2026; accessed Feb. 28, 2026).

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Feb. 20, 2026

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