2013 New York Consolidated Laws
ABC - Alcoholic Beverage Control
Article 8 - (100 - 131) GENERAL PROVISIONS
128 - Certain officials not to be interested in manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages.

 
    § 128. Certain  officials  not to be interested in manufacture or sale
  of alcoholic beverages. 1. Except as otherwise provided in  section  one
  hundred   twenty-eight-a,   it   shall   be   unlawful  for  any  police
  commissioner, police inspector, captain, sergeant, roundsman,  patrolman
  or  other police official or subordinate of any police department in the
  state, to be either directly or indirectly interested in the manufacture
  or sale of alcoholic beverages or to offer for sale, or recommend to any
  licensee any alcoholic beverages.   A  person  may  not  be  denied  any
  license granted under the provisions of sections fifty-four, fifty-five,
  fifty-nine,   sixty-three,   sixty-four,  seventy-nine,  eighty-one,  or
  article seven of this chapter solely on the grounds of being the  spouse
  of  a  public servant described in this subdivision. The solicitation or
  recommendation made to any licensee, to purchase any alcoholic beverages
  by any police official or subordinate as hereinabove described, shall be
  presumptive evidence of the interest of such official or subordinate  in
  the manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages.
    2. No elective village officer shall be subject to the limitations set
  forth  in  subdivision  one of this section unless such elective village
  officer shall be assigned duties directly relating to the  operation  or
  management of the police department.