Section 22-222. Other wholesaler registration and seafood distribution areas

a.  It  shall be unlawful for any business entity to conduct a wholesale
  seafood business  outside  the  fulton  fish  market  distribution  area
  without  having first registered and obtained a registration number from
  the commissioner. A registration application shall be upon  a  form  and
  contain  such  information as the commissioner shall specify by rule and
  shall be signed by all the principals of such wholesaler. A registration
  number shall not be transferable. The market manager  shall  maintain  a
  list  of  all  wholesalers  who  are registered pursuant to this section
  together with the registration numbers of  such  wholesalers  and  shall
  make  such list available to suppliers, shippers and truckers and shall,
  upon request, verify to  suppliers,  shippers  and  truckers  whether  a
  wholesaler is currently registered with the commissioner.
    b.  (i)  Upon  a  finding by the commissioner that there is reasonable
  cause to believe that there exists or that there is  the  potential  for
  corrupt,  deceptive  or  unconscionable business practices in an area or
  areas within the city outside the fulton fish market  distribution  area
  where  one or more wholesale seafood businesses has been established and
  that such business  practices  will  have  an  effect  inimical  to  the
  purposes of this chapter, the commissioner shall declare such area to be
  a  seafood  distribution  area,  and  all  unloading businesses, loading
  businesses, wholesale seafood businesses and seafood delivery businesses
  which operate within such area, and the employees and/or agents of  such
  businesses,  shall  be  subject  to  all the provisions of this chapter;
  provided that when such provisions are applied to a seafood distribution
  area, the terms "fulton fish market distribution area" and "market area"
  as  contained  therein  shall  be  deemed  to   include   such   seafood
  distribution  area.  (ii)  The  commissioner shall by rule establish the
  boundaries of such seafood distribution area, based on determination  of
  the area in which activities related to the distribution of seafood take
  place,  and  may  promulgate rules for the orderly and lawful conduct of
  business in such area in accordance  with  the  provisions  of  sections
  22-205,  22-207, 22-210 and 22-212 of this chapter. (iii) No enforcement
  action shall be taken on or after the date on which the boundaries of  a
  seafood  distribution  area  have been established pursuant to paragraph
  (ii) of this subdivision against  (1)  any  business  entity  or  person
  required to be licensed and/or to possess a class A photo identification
  card  pursuant to this section unless and until one of the following has
  occurred: (aa) such business entity or person has failed  to  apply  for
  such  license or class A photo identification card by the date specified
  by the commissioner; (bb) any of the principals of such business  entity
  or  such  person has failed to submit to fingerprinting or to submit the
  background information required  pursuant  to  section  22-216  of  this
  chapter;  or  (cc)  such  license  or photo identification card has been
  denied by  the  commissioner;  (2)  against  any  wholesaler  registered
  pursuant  to  subdivision  a  of this section whose principals have been
  required by  the  commissioner  to  submit  to  the  fingerprinting  and
  disclosure  requirements  of  section  22-216 of this chapter unless and
  until one of the following has occurred  (aa)  the  principals  of  such
  wholesaler  have  failed  to  submit  to fingerprinting or to submit the
  required background information; or (bb) the  commissioner  has  revoked
  the  registration of such wholesaler; (3) against any person required to
  possess a class B photo  identification  card  unless  such  person  has
  failed  to  apply for such class B photo identification card by the date
  specified by the commissioner; or (4) against  any  person  required  to
  possess a class B photo identification card who has been required by the
  commissioner to submit to the fingerprinting and disclosure requirements
  of  section 22-216 of this chapter unless and until one of the following

  has occurred: (aa) such person has failed to submit to fingerprinting or
  to submit the required background information by the date  specified  by
  the  commissioner;  or  (bb) the commissioner has denied the application
  for such class B photo identification card.
    c.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions of subdivision b of this section,
  the commissioner  may  determine  that  licenses  to  conduct  unloading
  businesses  in  a  seafood distribution area may be appropriately issued
  without application of  the  provisions  set  forth  in  subdivisions  b
  through  f  of  section  22-204  of  this  chapter, and that licenses to
  conduct loading  businesses  in  a  seafood  distribution  area  may  be
  appropriately  issued without application of the provisions set forth in
  subdivisions b through h of section 22-206 of this  chapter.  Where  the
  commissioner has made such a determination, all other provisions of this
  chapter  including,  but  not limited to, the requirements for licenses,
  the issuance of licenses and suspensions  and  revocations  of  licenses
  shall  apply.  For  the  purposes  of  this  subdivision:  (i)  the term
  "applicant submitting a proposal" as such term appears in section 22-216
  of this chapter shall, in the event of such determination, be deemed  to
  mean  an  applicant  for  an unloading license or a loading license in a
  seafood distribution area; and (ii) "loader" or "loading business" shall
  mean a business entity  that  has  designated  areas  in  which  loading
  services  take  place  or  that  operates  primarily  to provide loading
  services for purchasers of fish in a  seafood  distribution  area.  Such
  term  shall  not  include  a  business  entity that only incidentally or
  occasionally provides such services to such purchasers.