2015 New York Laws
AGM - Agriculture & Markets
Article 15 - (Agriculture & Markets) BEE DISEASES
173 - Eradication of bee diseases and certain insects affecting bees.

 173. Eradication of bee diseases and certain insects affecting bees.
  The  commissioner  may  cause  inspections to be made of apiaries in the
  state for  the  discovery  of  infectious,  contagious  or  communicable
  diseases  and  for  the  discovery  of  insects  and parasitic organisms
  adversely affecting bees, and for the discovery of species or subspecies
  of bees which have been determined by him to cause injury,  directly  or
  indirectly,  to  this  state's  useful  bee  population, crops, or other
  plants. He may also cause investigations to  be  made  as  to  the  best
  method  for  the  eradication  of diseases of bees, insects or parasitic
  organisms adversely affecting bees, or for the eradication of species or
  subspecies of bees which have been determined by him  to  cause  injury,
  directly or indirectly, to this state's useful bee population, crops, or
  other  plants  and  he may plan and execute appropriate methods for such
  eradication.
The commissioner  shall  have  access  to  all  apiaries,  structures,
  appliances  or premises where bees or honey or comb used in apiaries may
  be. He may open any hive, colony, package  or  receptacle  of  any  kind
  containing  or  which  he has reason to believe contains any bees, comb,
  bee products, used beekeeping appliances,  or  anything  else  which  is
  capable  of  transmitting  contagious  or infectious diseases of bees or
  which is capable of harboring insects or parasitic  organisms  adversely
  affecting  bees,  or  species  or  subspecies  of  bees  which have been
  determined by him to cause  injury,  directly  or  indirectly,  to  this
  state's useful bee population, crops, or other plants.