§ 852. Power of municipality to revoke license or permit. 1. A county,
town, city or village which issues a license or permit authorizing any
person, firm or corporation to engage in the selling or offering for
sale of any merchandise may revoke such license or permit upon a
finding, pursuant to a hearing held thereon, that such person, firm or
corporation has sold or offered for sale merchandise in violation of
this article.

2. The possession with intent to sell or offering for sale of
drug-related paraphernalia as defined herein is hereby declared to be a
nuisance, and where any such drug-related paraphernalia shall be taken
from the possession of any person, the same shall be surrendered and
forfeited to the sheriff of the county wherein the same shall be taken,
except that in a city having a population of seventy-five thousand or
more, the same shall be surrendered and forfeited to the police
commissioner or other head of the police force or department of said
city and except that in the counties of Nassau and Suffolk, the same
shall be surrendered and forfeited to the commissioner of the county
police department.