§ 2-317 Transfer of General Vending Licenses.
RCNY § 2-317
(a)Upon the death of a licensed general vendor, the Department shall transfer the license to the surviving spouse, if any, of the general vendor if the spouse informs the Department he or she desires to use the license. If there is no surviving spouse or if the surviving spouse elects not to use the license, the Department shall transfer the license to the guardian of a surviving minor child or children of the general vendor, provided the guardian intends to use the license for the support of the minor child or children. The Department shall issue a general vending license to the applicable party in his or her name upon submission to the Department of proof of the conditions upon which the transfer is based. The license shall revert to the Department for reassignment upon the death of the surviving spouse to whom the license has been transferred, or when: (1) the surviving spouse to whom the license has been transferred remarries; (2) the youngest minor child of the deceased licensed general vendor reaches the age of eighteen; or (3) the surviving spouse to whom the license has been transferred, or the guardian of the minor child or children to whom the license has been transferred, elects not to use the license to vend in the city of New York or abandons the use of the license. Temporary periods when the surviving spouse or guardian do not vend shall not cause the license to revert to the Department in the absence of other evidence of an intent to abandon the use of the license; however, a period of six months or more in which the holder of the license does not vend shall create a rebuttable presumption that the spouse or guardian has abandoned the use of the license. In the event that the surviving spouse to whom the license has been transferred, or the guardian of a surviving minor child or children to whom the license has been transferred, dies before the youngest minor child reaches the age of eighteen, any new guardian must submit a request to the Department for transfer of the license. Any license so transferred shall revert to the Department by operation of law when the youngest minor child reaches the age of eighteen.
(b)If a licensed general vendor becomes totally and permanently disabled, he or she may transfer the license to his or her spouse or, if the licensee has no spouse, to an adult child if the child assumes the duty to support the licensee. The Department shall issue a general vending license to the applicable party in his or her name upon submission to the Department of proof of the conditions upon which such transfer is based. The license shall revert to Department when: (1) the general vendor who held the license immediately before the transfer dies; (2) the spouse to whom the license has been transferred dies or divorces the general vendor who held the license immediately before the transfer; or (3) the child to whom the license has been transferred dies or renounces the obligation to support the general vendor who held the license immediately before the transfer.
(c)For purposes of this section, "spouse" includes a domestic partner.
(d)Except as provided for in this section, no general vending license, and no interest in any general vending license, may be sold, lent, leased or transferred. (Added City Record 3/7/2016, eff. 4/6/2016)
