2015 New York Laws
AGM - Agriculture & Markets
Article 5-C - (Agriculture & Markets) LICENSING OF RENDERING PLANTS
96-X - Declaration of policy and purposes.

 96-x. Declaration  of  policy and purposes.  The use as food of meat
  or meat  products  derived  from  dead,  dying,  disabled,  diseased  or
  condemned  animals endangers the health and welfare of the people of the
  state. The powers of  seizure,  quarantine  and  condemnation  held  and
  exercised  by  the  department  tend  to  suppress but do not constitute
  adequate controls to prevent such adulterated and unfit  meat  and  meat
  products  from being sold for consumption. It is hereby declared to be a
  matter of legislative determination that regulation and  supervision  of
  those who deal in, handle, transport, process or dispose of such animals
  and  the  products therefrom are needed in the public interest, and that
  in the exercise of the police power  such  persons  be  required  to  be
  licensed  before engaging in such activities and that such activities be
  regulated and supervised. The general purpose  of  this  article  is  to
  protect  the  public  health, safety and welfare by controlling the use,
  movement  and  disposition  of  dead,  dying,  disabled,  diseased,   or
  condemned animals, and the meat and meat products derived therefrom.