2016 New York Laws
AGM - Agriculture & Markets
Article 10-A - (Agriculture & Markets) Prevention of Fraud in Sale of Soil and Plant Inoculants
147-B - License.

 147-b. License.  No  person  shall sell, offer or expose for sale in
  this state any soil or plant inoculant unless licensed  as  provided  in
  this  section.  Application  for  a  license  shall  be made upon a form
  prescribed by the commissioner and  shall  include  a  statement  as  to
  whether  the  inoculant  is  represented  as  effective  for inoculating
  legumes or for some other purpose, and, if represented as effective  for
  the  inoculation  of  legumes,  for  which  legume  or  legumes it is so
  represented.  With  the  application,  the  applicant  shall  present  a
  representative  sample  of  the soil or plant inoculant described in the
  application. The commissioner, if satisfied that the  inoculant  may  be
  depended  upon  to  produce  an  effective  inoculation  for the purpose
  represented, shall issue to such applicant a license  for  the  sale  of
  such  inoculant,  expiring  on  December  thirty-first  of the next even
  numbered year following its issuance.  Application for renewal  of  such
  license  for  a period of two years shall be made biennially upon a form
  prescribed by the commissioner and submitted no later than  thirty  days
  prior to the expiration of the existing license.