2015 New York Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 4 - (General Business) PEDDLERS
34 - Arrest and conviction of offender.

  34. Arrest and conviction of offender. The public welfare officials
  shall see that the provisions of this  article  are  enforced  in  their
  respective towns. Any citizen may arrest any person trading as a peddler
  who  neglects  or  refuses  to  produce his license on demand, and shall
  immediately convey such person before some justice of the peace  of  the
  county.  If  the  fact  that the person so arrested has traded without a
  license be proved to the satisfaction of the justice, he  shall  convict
  such  person  of  an offense against this article and on such conviction
  shall issue his warrant to some constable of the county, commanding such
  constable to levy and collect from the personal property of the offender
  the sum of twenty-five dollars, with the costs of  the  proceeding,  not
  exceeding  five  dollars. The penalty collected on such warrant shall be
  paid by the justice to the public welfare official of the town where the
  offense was committed.
If it appears in said proceeding that the person arrested  refused  to
  produce  his  license or to disclose his name when lawfully required, no
  costs shall be allowed such defendant, nor shall he maintain  an  action
  for false imprisonment.