Section 231. Licenses, issuance of

No person or corporation shall maintain
  or  operate  any  refrigerated  warehouse  and/or  locker  plant  unless
  licensed by the commissioner. Application, upon a form prescribed by the
  commissioner,  shall be made on or before September first of every other
  year for the license  period  beginning  October  first  following.  The
  applicant  shall  satisfy  the  commissioner  of  his  or its character,
  financial responsibility,  and  competency  to  operate  a  refrigerated
  warehouse  or  locker  plant.  The commissioner, if so satisfied, shall,
  upon receipt of the license fee  or  fees,  issue  to  the  applicant  a
  license  or licenses to operate the refrigerated warehouse or warehouses
  or locker plant or locker plants described in the application until  the
  first  day  of  October  of  the  year  following the year in which such
  license was issued. The  biennial  license  fee  shall  be  two  hundred
  dollars  for  each refrigerated warehouse. If a locker plant is operated
  as part of a refrigerated warehouse  and  upon  the  same  premises,  no
  additional license fee shall be required.