Section 439. Licenses; display; renewal; duplicates

1.  All  licenses, except temporary licenses, shall be for a period of
  two years.
    2. No license or  certificate  shall  be  assignable  or  transferable
  except as hereinafter provided.
    2-a. A license to conduct a barber shop issued to an individual may be
  assigned  or  transferred  for the remainder of the licensed period to a
  partnership or corporation if  such  individual  is  a  member  of  such
  partnership  or  an  officer  of  such  corporation  at the time of such
  assignment or transfer.  A  license  issued  to  a  partnership  may  be
  assigned  or  transferred for the remainder of the license period to any
  one member of such partnership, provided he obtains the consent  of  all
  of  the  other  members  of such partnership, or to a new partnership of
  which one or more members of the licensed partnership  were  members.  A
  license  issued  to a corporation may be assigned or transferred for the
  remainder of the licensed period to any one individual  officer  of  the
  corporation provided he obtains the consent of all of the other officers
  of  such  corporation.  The  application for such transfer or assignment
  must be accompanied by proof satisfactory to  the  department  that  the
  requirements  herein  provided have been complied with. No assignment or
  transfer shall become effective unless and until the endorsement of  the
  transfer  or  assignment has been made on the face of the license by the
  department and such license, so  endorsed,  has  been  returned  to  the
  assignee  or  transferee.  All  such  endorsements shall be made without
  payment of any fee. A bona fide purchaser of  a  barber  shop  from  the
  holder  of  a  license  thereof  may  continue to use the license of the
  seller for a period of thirty days from the date of the  sale,  provided
  there  is  endorsed  on  the face thereof the name of the purchaser, the
  date of the sale, and the signature of the seller and the purchaser; and
  provided further  within  five  days  from  the  date  of  the  sale  an
  application, in accordance with the provisions of this article, shall be
  presented  by  the  purchaser to the secretary of state for a license to
  conduct a barber shop.
    2-b. A license to conduct a barber shop issued to an individual or  to
  a  partnership may be used after the death of the licensed individual or
  co-partner by his  next  of  kin  or  duly  appointed  administrator  or
  executor  in  the  name  of the estate for a period of not more than one
  hundred twenty days from  the  date  of  death  of  such  individual  or
  co-partner, provided that there is endorsed upon the face of the license
  after  the  name  of the decedent the word "deceased", the date of death
  and the name of the next of kin, administrator or executor  under  whose
  authority  the  license  is being used; the period of one hundred twenty
  days aforesaid may be extended upon  application  to  the  secretary  of
  state  and  for  good cause shown for an additional period not to exceed
  one hundred twenty days. Any license so  continued  which  shall  expire
  during  such  period of one hundred twenty days or the extension thereof
  may be renewed by the next of kin, administrator  or  executor  for  the
  balance of such period or the extension thereof.
    3.  Each  license or certificate issued pursuant to this article shall
  be posted and kept posted in some conspicuous place in the  barber  shop
  in  which  the  licensee  or  registrant  is  engaged in the practice of
  barbering or as an apprentice.
    4. Any license or certificate, except a temporary license,  which  has
  not  been suspended or revoked, may, upon the payment of the renewal fee
  prescribed by this article, be renewed for  additional  periods  of  two
  years  from its expiration, without further examination, upon the filing
  of any application for such renewal, on a form to be prescribed  by  the
  secretary of state, accompanied by the certificate required by paragraph

  (c)  and  the  certificate  of completion required by paragraph (e-1) of
  subdivision one of section four hundred thirty-four of this article.
    5.  Any  person  failing  to file application and fee for renewal of a
  license as a barber within one year immediately following the expiration
  of his last license shall pay an additional fee of ten dollars,  and  if
  he  fail  to  file  application and fee for renewal within five years he
  shall be ineligible for such license until he shall have again passed an
  examination but he shall not be required to pay such additional fee.
    6. A duplicate license or certificate may  be  issued  for  one  lost,
  destroyed or mutilated upon application therefor on a form prescribed by
  the secretary of state and the payment of the fee prescribed therefor by
  this   article.   Each  such  duplicate  license  shall  have  the  word
  "duplicate" stamped across the face thereof  and  shall  bear  the  same
  number as the one it replaces.