2015 New York Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 14 - (General Business) AIRCRAFT
251-C - Disqualification of a flight instruction school applicant.

 251-c. Disqualification of a flight instruction school applicant. An
  applicant  to  an aeronautical facility, flight school or institution of
  higher learning shall be  disqualified  from  receiving  air  or  flight
  instruction  if,  after  reviewing  criminal  history information on the
  applicant and applying the criteria set forth in article  twenty-three-A
  of  the  correction  law,  the  commissioner of the division of criminal
  justice  services  or  the  authorized  official  of  the   aeronautical
  facility,  flight  school  or institution of higher education determines
  that the individual should not be permitted to receive such instruction.