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2012 New York Consolidated Laws
SOS - Social Services
Article 5 - ASSISTANCE AND CARE
Title 1 - (131 - 152-B) GENERAL PROVISIONS
151 - Penalty for cashing public assistance checks.


NY Soc Serv L § 151 (2012) What's This?
 
    §  151. Penalty for cashing public assistance checks.  No person, firm
  or corporation licensed under the provision of  the  alcoholic  beverage
  control  law  to  sell  liquor  at  retail shall cash or accept, for any
  purpose whatsoever, any public  assistance  check  issued  by  a  public
  welfare  official  or  department  as  and  for  public  assistance.   A
  violation of the provisions of this section for the first offense  shall
  be  punishable  by a fine not to exceed fifty dollars.  A second offense
  shall constitute sufficient cause for the  revocation,  cancellation  or
  suspension  of  such  license  issued pursuant to the alcoholic beverage
  control law.

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