2016 New York Laws
AGM - Agriculture & Markets
Article 14 - (Agriculture & Markets) Prevention and Control of Disease in Trees and Plants; Insect Pests; Sale of Fruit-bearing Trees
164 - Control and eradication of injurious insects, noxious weeds, and plant diseases.

 164. Control  and  eradication  of injurious insects, noxious weeds,
  and plant diseases.  1. The commissioner shall take such  action  as  he
  may  deem  necessary  to  control  or  eradicate  any injurious insects,
  noxious weeds, or plant diseases existing within the state.
2. All trees, shrubs, plants and vines or  other  material,  including
  soil  infected  or infested with injurious insects or plant diseases, or
  which have been exposed to injurious insects or plant diseases, or which
  are hosts of such insects or plant diseases or other material  including
  soil,  and noxious weeds are hereby declared public nuisances and may be
  destroyed or ordered destroyed by the commissioner.
3. The commissioner may order the owner or person  in  charge  of  any
  infected  or  infested trees, shrubs, plants and vines or other material
  including soil or host plants, and noxious weeds or the owner or  person
  in  charge of the farm or premises upon which they have been grown or on
  which they exist or in which they have been stored, or of  the  vehicles
  or  cars  in  which  they  have  been conveyed, to take such measures to
  eradicate or control the said infestation, infection, or  noxious  weeds
  as  the  commissioner  may  deem necessary or proper. Such orders may be
  communicated by personal service,  service  through  the  mails,  or  by
  newspaper  publication,  as the commissioner deems expedient. Such owner
  or  person  in  charge  shall  promptly  carry  out  the  order  of  the
  commissioner  within the period of time designated in the order. If such
  owner or person in charge shall refuse or neglect to carry out any  such
  order,  the  commissioner may apply such eradication or control measures
  at the expense of the owner. Upon the completion of such eradication  or
  control  measures  the  owner  shall,  upon  demand of the commissioner,
  forthwith pay the cost thereof into the state  treasury,  and  upon  his
  neglect  or refusal so to do, the amount thereof shall be recovered in a
  civil action to be brought and prosecuted by the attorney-general in the
  name of the people of the state.